Waimea County.—Hope Survey District.

Section 2, Block VIII : Area, 1,400 acres. Capital value,
£1,160. Occupation with right of purchase: Half-yearly
rent, £29. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £23 4s.
Altitude from about 1,400 ft. to 2,400 ft. Country runs
from easy slopes to rough, broken country, about 300 acres
being rough and inferior; balance is fair sheep-country.
Bush is brown and red birch.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-
General, this 18th day of November, 1921.
D. H. GUTHRIE, Minister of Lands.

Amended Regulations under the Mining Act, 1908, for the
Control of Operations in connection with Prospecting for,
Production, and Storage of Mineral Oils and Natural Gas.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon
him by the Mining Act, 1908, and its amendments,
His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of
New Zealand doth hereby make the following additional
amendments to the regulations made under the said Act
on the third day of August, one thousand nine hundred and
fifteen, and gazetted on the fifth day of August, one thousand
nine hundred and fifteen (hereinafter referred to as “the said
regulations”); and doth hereby declare that the amendments
to the said regulations hereby made shall be read as part
of the principal regulations, and shall come into force on the
date of the gazetting hereof.

AMENDMENTS TO REGULATIONS:
REGULATIONS 193 to 301 (both inclusive) of the said regulations are hereby revoked and the following substituted therefor :

Definitions.

193. In this Part of these regulations, unless inconsistent
     with the context,—
     “Apparatus” means electrical apparatus, and includes
     all apparatus, machines, and fittings in which con-
     ductors are used, or of which they form a part.
     “Authorized person” means a competent person ap-
     pointed in writing by the well-manager to carry out
     certain duties.
     “Board of Examiners” means the Board of Examiners
     appointed pursuant to sections 226 and 227 of the
     Mining Act, 1908.
     “Casing” means the pipe commonly used within wells
     drilled for natural gas or petroleum.
     “Circuit” means an electrical circuit forming a system or
     branch of a system.
     “Conductor” means an electrical conductor arranged to
     be electrically connected to a system.
     “Earthed” means connected to the general mass of earth
     in such manner as will ensure at all times an imme-
     diate discharge of electrical energy without danger.
     “High pressure” means a pressure in a system normally
     above 650 volts, but not exceeding 3,000 volts,
     where the electrical energy is used or supplied.
     “Inspector” means an Inspector of Mines appointed
     under the Mining Act, 1908.
     “Live” means electrically charged.
     “Mining operations” and “mining purposes” mean
     boring or otherwise prospecting for natural gas,
     petroleum, or oil, and drilling, operating, or abandon-
     ing a well or spring as herein defined or the refinement
     of oil produced therefrom and includes :-
     (a.) The storing, conveyance, and treatment of any
     natural gas, petroleum, or oil, or other similar
     product.
     (b.) The erection, maintenance, and use of machinery
     and the construction or use of races, dams,
     channels, tanks, lighters, vessels, pipe lines,
     reservoirs, and other works of whatsoever
     kind connected with any such operations or
     purposes.
     (c.) The deposit or discharge of debris, refuse, and
     waste products produced from or consequent
     on any such operations or purposes.
     (d.) The lawful use of land, watercourses, water, and
     the doing of all lawful acts incident or con-
     ducive to any such purposes or operations.
     “Oil” means crude or refined mineral oil and their pro-
     ducts, excluding water.
     “Open sparking” means sparking which, owing to the
     lack of adequate provision for preventing the ignition
     of inflammable gas external to apparatus, would
     ignite such inflammable gas.
     “Pressure” means the difference of electrical potential
     between any two conductors through which supply
     of energy is given, or between any part of either
     conductor and the earth.
     “System” means an electrical system in which all con-
     ductors and apparatus are electrically connected to a
     common source of electromotive force.
     “Well” means a borehole drilled for the purpose of
     developing natural gas or petroleum, or a borehole
     producing natural gas or petroleum.
     “Well-manager” means the person having actual control
     of well operations.
     “Well operations” mean drilling, operating, or abandon-
     ing such well as hereinbefore defined, or the refine-
     ment of oil produced therefrom, or any mining
     operations.
     “Well-operator” means any legally responsible person,
     persons, firm, partnership, syndicate, corporation,
     company, or association that drills, operates, or
     abandons, or purposes to drill, operate, or abandon,
     such well as hereinbefore defined.
     “Workman” includes every person employed in working for wages, or on contract, on or in connection
     with any well operations.

Workmen.

194. No person under the age of eighteen years shall be
     employed at well operations.
195. Every workman at well operations shall be supplied
     by the manager or authorized person with a copy of these
     regulations, and shall be warned by such manager or super-
     visor of the danger of the ignition of inflammable gas or oil.
196. If more than six persons are employed at one time at
     any well operations there shall be provided near such opera-
     tions, and not in the engine-house, boiler-house, or any build-
     ing in which oil is stored or dealt with, sufficient accommoda-
     tion for enabling the workmen to conveniently wash them-
     selves and to dry and change their clothing.

Officials.

197. On and after the date of the gazetting of these regu-
     lations no person shall be employed to act in the capacity of
     well-manager and have charge of well operations unless he is
     the holder of a service permit granted by the Board of
     Examiners.
198. A service permit shall not be granted unless the
     applicant satisfies the Board of Examiners that (a) he resides
     in New Zealand, and that (b) he has had in the aggregate at
     least three years’ practical experience in various capacities at
     well operations where gas and oil have been dealt with, and
     that (c) he is a person of ability, sobriety, and good conduct;
     provided that such Board may, if it thinks fit, waive the
     requirements specified in conditions (a) and (b) of this regula-
     tion in the case of a borehole which has been drilled in search
     for coal producing gas.
199. The Board of Examiners shall have the power to
     refuse to grant a service permit or to cancel any permit
     granted as aforesaid.
200. If a well-manager is at any time incapacitated from
     performing his duties, or is about to be absent from the well
     operations for more than six working-days, he or the well-
     operator shall appoint some person, approved in writing by
     an Inspector, as deputy manager during such incapacity or
     absence; but no such deputy shall act for more than fourteen
     working-days at any one time, unless authorized to do so
     by an Inspector.
201. A license to bore for petroleum or other mineral oils
     or natural gas shall be issued, in the case of Crown lands,
     only to the holder or holders of a mineral prospecting war-
     rant or a mineral lease granted under the Mining Act, 1908,
     or, in the case of any lands other than Crown lands, to the
     owner or owners of the land to which the license shall relate.
     (The word “owner” in this case shall mean also any person
     or body corporate to whom the owner of the land shall
     request that a license be granted.)
202. Application for a license to bore for petroleum or
     other mineral oils or natural gas shall be addressed to the
     Minister on the form numbered 117 in the Eleventh Schedule
     hereto, and shall be accompanied by a fee of £5.
203. The license shall be in the form numbered 118 in the
     Eleventh Schedule hereto. An owner or operator having
     obtained a license to drill shall not be under the necessity
     of confining his operations to one bore, but may drill any
     number of bores during the currency of his license, provided
     that Regulations 204 and 205 shall be complied with in
     respect of each and every bore, and the approval of an
     Inspector obtained before any bore is commenced.

Commencement of Drilling.

204. The owner, agent, or manager of any well or bore shall,
     before commencing the work of drilling, give written notice
     to an Inspector of his intention to drill, and such notice
     shall contain the following information:—
     (a.) Statement of location and elevation above sea-level of
     the floor of the proposed derrick and drill rig.