May 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1525

Regulations under the Coal-mines Act, 1908, and its
Amendments.

CHARLES FERGUSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House at Wellington, this 18th day of
May, 1925.
Present:
HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him
by the Coal-mines Act, 1908, and its amendments
(hereinafter referred to as "the said Act"), His Excellency
the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand,
acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby revoke all previous
regulations made under the said Act, and in lieu thereof doth
hereby make the regulations hereinafter set forth; and,
except as otherwise specially provided in any case, doth
hereby declare that such revocation shall take effect and the
regulations hereby made shall come into force on the date of
the publication thereof in the Gazette.

REGULATIONS.
THE BOARD OF EXAMINERS.

1. At all meetings of the Board of Examiners constituted
   under the said Act three members shall form a quorum.
2. (1.) Each member of the Board who is not otherwise
   employed in any Department of the Public Service shall
   receive by way of travelling-expenses the sum of £1 11s. for
   each day of twenty-four hours he is absent from his place
   of abode for the purpose of attending at a meeting of the
   Board, or for the purpose of conducting underviewers' and
   firemen-deputies' examinations.
   (2.) For any portion of a day he shall receive one-twenty-
   fourth of the full daily rate for each hour's absence.
   (3.) In computing the time of absence a fraction of an
   hour if less than half an hour shall not be taken into account,
   but half an hour or more shall be reckoned as one hour.
   (4.) He shall also be repaid all reasonable sums properly
   expended by him for fares by railway, coach, or steamer in
   travelling for the said purposes.
   (5.) Each member of the Board who is not otherwise
   employed in any Department of the Public Service shall also
   be paid such fee as the Minister may from time to time
   authorize for each examination held or for each paper set
   by him.
   MINE-MANAGERS' CERTIFICATES.
3. (1.) The Board shall examine, or cause to be examined,
   on the subjects hereinafter specified, applicants for first-class
   and second-class certificates as mine-managers.
   (2.) The Board may appoint supervisors from time to time
   to superintend such examinations.
4. (1.) Every application for a certificate as a mine-manager
   shall be made in writing, under the hand of the applicant, to
   the Secretary of the Board of Examiners, Mines Department,
   Wellington.
   (2.) Every application for examination for a mine-manager's
   certificate shall be in Form 6 in the Schedule hereto, and
   each applicant shall forward with his application a fee of
   £2 2s. in the case of a first-class certificate, and a fee of
   £1 1s. in the case of a second-class certificate.
   (3.) Every applicant for examination for a mine-manager's
   certificate shall also forward with his application—
   (a.) A certificate that the applicant is not less than twenty-
   one years of age:
   (b.) A certificate or certificates from his previous employers
   that he has complied with the requirements of the
   said Act as regards his underground experience in
   coal-mines:
   (c.) A certificate at date from his employer as to his
   general conduct and sobriety:
   (d.) A medical certificate that his senses of sight and
   hearing are not defective.
   (4.) He must also be in possession of a gas-testing certificate
   showing that he is capable of making accurate tests for
   inflammable gas with a safety-lamp.
5. (1.) The subjects of examination for certificates as
   coal-mine managers shall be as follows:—
   Subject I, Mining: Opening out a colliery, working coal,
   and timbering; boring (some one form each of hand,
   calyx, and diamond drills to be described).

Subject II, Mechanics: Pumping-appliances and mine-
drainage; tapping water and dam-construction in mines;
winding in shafts; hauling on underground planes;
compressed-air and steam-power plants; strength of
materials; elementary electricity (to include knowledge
of fundamental principles; definition and application of
electrical units and terms; advantages and disadvan-
tages of direct and alternating current generators and
motors; principle of a rotary transformer; principles of
insulation; advantages and disadvantages of electrical
winding-engines; a knowledge of wiring and other details
of electrical machinery is not required).
Subject III, Ventilation: Ventilation of mines and know-
ledge of mine-gases; spontaneous combustion of coal,
and methods of dealing with underground fires; rescue
apparatus; practical knowledge of gas-testing with a
safety-lamp. (The candidate may be required to give a
practical demonstration before a person appointed for
that purpose.)
Subject IV, Arithmetic and Law: Mine accounts;
fractions, decimals, percentages, square root, area of
rectangle, trapezoid, circle, &c.; measurement of
timber; calculation of workable coal in a mine, &c.; a
knowledge of the Coal-mines Act, 1908, and amend-
ments thereof and of the general rules, special rules, and
regulations made thereunder.
Subject V, Surveying: A knowledge of surveying and
levelling, both underground and at the surface; also of
mine plans and sections.
Subject VI, General and Applied Geology: Prospecting;
origin and mode of formation of coal-seams; faulting,
and the recovery of faulted seams; general knowledge
of the geology of stratified rocks and more particularly
of the New Zealand coal-measures.
Subject VII, First aid to the injured.
(NOTE.—A first-aid certificate of the St. John
Ambulance Association or other body approved by the
Board of Examiners, showing that the candidate is
fitted to give first aid to persons requiring it, will be
accepted in lieu of examination.)
(2.) The examination in the above subjects shall be both
written and oral, and candidates will require to present them-
selves for examination at such places as are appointed by
the Board of Examiners.
(3.) Every applicant must be able to give drawings to illus-
trate details connected with any work to be done in or about
a coal-mine, and must give all details of calculations, and in
matters of opinion must clearly and fully state his reasons for
arriving at any given conclusion.
6. (1.) A candidate for a first-class mine-manager’s certifi-
cate shall be required to pass satisfactorily both a written
and an oral examination in Subjects I to VII.
A candidate for a second-class mine-manager’s certificate
shall be required to pass satisfactorily both a written and an
oral examination in Subjects I, II, III, IV, and VII, but he
shall not be required to pass in Subjects V and VI.
(2.) First-class mine-manager’s certificates by examination
shall be in Form 1, and second-class mine-manager’s certifi-
cates by examination shall be in Form 2 in the Schedule hereto.
UNDERVERIERS’ AND FIREMEN AND DEPUTIES’ CERTIFICATES.
7. With respect to the examination for certificates as
underviewers and firemen and deputies, the following pro-
visions shall apply:—
(a.) Examinations shall be held at such times and places
as are appointed by the Board of Examiners.
(b.) In each district where coal-mining is carried on the
Board of Examiners shall consist of one or more
members of the Board of Examiners appointed under
the said Act or such other person or persons as the
Governor-General appoints for the purpose, and an
Inspector of Mines.
8. (1.) Every application for a certificate as an under-
viewer or fireman and deputy shall be made in writing under
the hand of the applicant to the Secretary of the Board of
Examiners, Mines Department, Wellington.
(2.) Every application for examination for an under-
viewer’s or a fireman and deputy’s certificate shall be in
Form 6 in the Schedule hereto, and shall be forwarded at
least one month before the date fixed for the examination to
the Secretary of the Board of Examiners, Mines Department,
Wellington, accompanied by a fee of £1 in the case of an appli-
cation for an underviewer’s certificate or a fee of 15s. in the
case of an application for a fireman and deputy’s certificate.
(3.) Every applicant for examination for an underviewer’s
or fireman and deputy’s certificate shall also forward with his
application—
(a.) A medical certificate that his senses of sight and hearing
are not defective: