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if props or bars are used as supports, such supports shall be set at such regular intervals and in such manner as may be specified in the notice hereinafter mentioned.

(3.) The manager shall by notice specify the manner in which the supports are to be set and advanced and the maximum intervals to be observed on roadways between the supports and at the face—

(a.) Between two rows of props or between a row of props and the rib side:

(b.) Between adjacent props in the same row:

(c.) Between the front prop or front row of props and the face:

(d.) Between the holing props or sprags:

(e.) Between face-sprags:

(f.) Between chocks:

Provided that the foregoing provision shall not apply to any place in which the top coal is being brought back, and the height of the place is such that it is impracticable to set supports to the roof. In such place the manager shall make special provision for the proper safeguarding of the workmen, which provision shall be subject to review by the Inspector in terms of subclause five of this regulation.

(4.) Nothing in this regulation shall prevent a workman from setting supports in his working-place at more frequent intervals than those specified in the notice aforesaid, where necessary for safety.

(5.) If the Inspector considers that the system of supporting the roof and sides adopted in any part of a mine is unsatisfactory, either by reason of the intervals fixed or otherwise, he may require the manager to fix a less interval or otherwise modify the system, and the manager shall comply with the requisition.

(6.) This regulation shall apply only to all mines where additional rules with regard to timbering have not been made by the Additional Rules Committee.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

(Mines N 3/2/1.)

Amended Regulation under Police Force Act, 1913.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 6th day of October, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. G. COATES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by section fourteen of the Police Force Act, 1913, 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 regulation three hundred and ten of the regulations made under the said Act on the fifteenth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulation set forth hereunder; and doth declare that such revocation and the regulation hereby made shall take effect on the first day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five.

REGULATION.

310. ALL members of the force will be allowed leave of absence according to the following scale: For every full month's service, two days' leave on pay.

Leave may be allowed to accumulate for two years, so that forty-eight days may be taken at one time. In calculating accumulated leave only the last two years' service shall be taken into consideration. Any leave not taken in previous years will be forfeited, unless it has been applied for and postponed for departmental reasons.

Leave must be applied for on the printed form provided for that purpose.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Bringing certain Provisions of the Mining Act into force within certain Parts of New Zealand.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 6th day of October, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. G. COATES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section two of the Mining Amendment

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any of the provisions of the Mining Act, 1908, shall apply to prospecting and mining for and the storage of petroleum and other mineral oils and of natural gas, and also define the districts within which any such Order in Council shall take effect.

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the said section two, 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 declare that the provisions of the Mining Act, 1908, and its amendments, set out in the First Schedule hereto, shall apply to prospecting and mining for and the storage of petroleum and other mineral oils and of natural gas within the districts described in the Second Schedule hereto.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

THE Mining Act, 1908.— Part I : Section 4—Definitions of Crown lands, Endowment, Land, Minister, Native, Native land, Native ceded land, Native reserves, Occupier, Owner, Person, Private lands, Public Reserve, Unalienated Crown land; Section 7.

Part III : Section 20.

Part IV : Sections 76 to 79, 80 (1), 81 to 85, (both inclusive), 95, 113, 154, 165, 166, 168, 171, 172, 173, 179; 205, 207, 209, 212 (a) (b) (c) and (e), 213, 214 to 222.

Part V : Sections 243, 245 to 247, 254 (37), 261, 262, 263, 265 to 273 (both inclusive), 275, 276.

Part IX : Sections 310, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326 to 330.

Part XII : Sections 392 (1) (2) (13) (33) (34) (36) (40) (43), 402.

The Mining Amendment Act, 1910 : Sections 5, 15, 19 (i) (t) (u).

The Mining Amendment Act, 1911 : Section 3.

The Mining Amendment Act, 1914 : Sections 13, 15, 17, 18, 24, 30.

The Mining Amendment Act, 1919 : Sections 10, 11.

The Mining Amendment Act, 1920 : Sections 5, 11, 12.

The Mining Amendment Act, 1922 : Sections 2, 11, 13.

The Mining Amendment Act, 1924 : Section 6.

Regulations 1, 10, 15 to 17, 19, 21, 33, 34 to 37, 57, 68 to 75, 77, 79 to 85, 91, 124, 147 to 152, 156, 169, 170, as published in New Zealand Gazette No. 93, of the 5th August, 1915.

Regulation 76 as published in New Zealand Gazette No. 128, of 16th November, 1916.

Regulations 193 to 301A, as published in New Zealand Gazette No. 99, of 24th November, 1921, and as amended by Regulations published in New Zealand Gazette Nos. 2 and 12, of the 15th January, 1925, and 19th February, 1925, respectively.

Regulation 37 as published in New Zealand Gazette No. 103, of the 15th December, 1921.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF DISTRICTS.

ALL that area in the North Auckland Land District contained in Blocks 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16, Purua Survey District, Blocks 2, 5, and 6, Tangihua Survey District, and Block 4, Maungaru Survey District, exclusive of the Kiore-roa Block, an endowment of the Whangarei High School, situated within that area.

All that area in the Taranaki Land District, bounded towards the north generally by the Mokau River from the sea to the Tahumataroa Stream; thence by that stream to the eastern boundary of Mokau-Mohakatino No. 1H Block; thence towards the east by the said eastern boundary to the south-eastern boundary of the said Mokau-Mahakatino No. 1H Block; thence towards the south-east by a right line to the easternmost corner of the Town of Midhirst; thence towards the south-west by the said Town of Midhirst to its northernmost corner; thence by a right line to the mouth of the Pitone Stream; and thence towards the north-west by the sea to the mouth of the Mokau River, the place of commencement.

All that area in the Taranaki Land District contained in the Survey District of Ngatimaru.

All that area in the Gisborne Land District contained in the Survey Districts of Mangatu, Waingaromia, Waimata, and Uawa.

All that area in the Hawke’s Bay Land District contained in the Survey Districts of Mangatoro and Weber.

All that area in the Wellington Land District contained in the Survey District of Mount Cerberus.

All that area in the Wellington Land District, containing by admeasurement 18,071 acres, more or less, being Mataikona Nos. 1, 2, and 3 Blocks. Bounded towards the north and north-east generally by the Aohanga River from the