1434
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 39

2. Where the words mentioned in the first column below appear in the Railway Department’s By-laws, the words mentioned in the second column below shall be read in lieu thereof :—

First Column. Second Column.
Department .. .. Public Works Department.
Board of Management of the Engineer-in-Chief and Under-
New Zealand Government Secretary, Public Works
Railways or General Department.
Manager .. ..
District Manager or District District Engineer.
Railway Manager ..
Railway or Railways .. Public Works.
Minister .. .. Minister of Public Works.

3. Paragraph (2) of clause 40 and Part VI of the Railway Department’s By-laws shall be omitted from the by-laws to be imposed on the Eskdale to Tutira Section of the East Coast Main Trunk Railway.

Given under my hand at Wellington, this 28th day of April, 1928.

W. NOSWORTHY,
For Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 6/127.)

Scale of Fares, Rates, and Charges, Eskdale to Tutira Section, East Coast Main Trunk Railway.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 11 of the Public Works Amendment Act, 1909, I, Kenneth Stuart Williams, Minister of Public Works, do hereby order and declare that the regulations, scale of fares, rates, and charges for passengers and goods, and the conditions on which passengers and goods will be carried on the Eskdale to Tutira Section of the East Coast Main Trunk Railway prior to its being opened for traffic under the Government Railways Act, 1908, shall be as set forth in the Schedule hereto, such regulations, scale, and conditions to come into force on the twelfth day of May, 1928, from which date all previous regulations, scale of fares, rates, charges, and conditions for the carriage of passengers and goods fixed or imposed in respect of the said railway or any portion thereof are declared to be hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE.

THE regulations, scale of fares, rates, and charges, and the conditions on which passengers and goods will be carried on the Eskdale to Tutira Section of the East Coast Main Trunk Railway prior to its being opened for traffic under the Government Railways Act, 1908, shall, mutatis mutandis, be the same as the following parts or portions of the parts of the regulations and scale of fares, rates, and charges for the New Zealand Government Railways fixed to take effect on and from the 31st day of August, 1925, by the Minister of Railways as published by the Government Printer by authority in form of a handbook (which is hereinafter referred to as “the Tariff”), and relating to passenger-fares and coaching and goods rates, as altered and added to from time to time by publication in the New Zealand Gazette :—

1. Part I of the Tariff, Regulations 1 to 38, pages I to 29, except Regulations 3 and 4, 9 to 20, 22 and 23, and 25 to 31, all inclusive.

2. Part II of the Tariff, Regulations 1 to 24, pages 35 to 51 inclusive.

3. Part III of the Tariff, pages 54 to 85 inclusive.

4. Part V of the Tariff, pages 109 to 139 inclusive.

5. Part VII of the Tariff, Regulations 1 to 10, pages 148 to 154 inclusive, except the definition of “Department” contained in Regulation 1.

6. Where the words mentioned in the first column below appear in the parts of the Tariff or alterations thereto hereinbefore mentioned, the words in the second column below shall be read in lieu thereof :—

First Column. Second Column.
Department .. .. Public Works Department.
Board of Management of the Engineer-in-Chief and Under-
New Zealand Government Secretary, Public Works De-
Railways .. .. partment.
District Manager .. .. District Engineer.
Railway or Railways .. Public Works.
Minister .. .. Minister of Public Works.

Given under my hand at Wellington, this 28th day of April, 1928.

W. NOSWORTHY,
For Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 6/127.)

New Zealand School of Mines.—Scholarship Regulations.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 19th April, 1928.

1. Six scholarships are offered annually for competition by students attending schools of mines within the Dominion—three for the South Island, and three for the North Island.

2. The scholarships will be granted to those candidates who comply with the conditions and obtain the highest percentage of marks, which must not be less than specified in Regulation 9.

3. Holders of scholarships are required to attend during the University session at the University of Otago (no class fees will be charged on subjects contained in the curriculum of the Otago School of Mines), and during the long recess are also required to engage in approved practical work at one of the mines or batteries in the Dominion, or in the field with the New Zealand Geological Survey Department.

4. The scholarships will be of the annual value of £50 each to successful candidates, who, while attending classes at the University of Otago, have to reside away from their homes, and of £30 to successful candidates who are able to reside at their homes while attending the University classes.

5. The scholarships will be tenable for four years.

6. The scholarships will be open to all students as aforesaid who are not less than sixteen years of age on the day appointed for receiving applications, and who shall have attended regularly at any school of mines within the Dominion for not less than two years at least 80 per cent. of the lectures in each subject of the examination course: Provided that the Minister may grant such exemption from the provisions of this regulation as he thinks reasonable in any case where it was not practicable for a student to attend 80 per cent. of the lectures in a subject in which he wishes to be examined, or where no lectures were held in that subject at the school of mines at which he was a student.

7. The examinations will be held in or about the month of December in each year, on days which will be duly announced.

8. The examination will embrace six of the following subjects :—

(1) Mathematics.
(2) Elementary Mechanics.
(3) Theoretical Chemistry.
(4) Practical Chemistry and Quantitative Analysis.
(5) Electricity.
(6) Mechanical Drawing.
(7) General and Mining Geology.
(8) Metallurgy of Gold and Silver.
(9) (a) Coal-mining; or (b) Metal-mining.
(10) Winding, Haulage, and Pumping.
(11) Ventilation.
(12) Land and Mine Surveying.

Subjects 1, 2 or 3, and 5 are compulsory for all candidates, and each candidate must state in his application the branch of mining he intends to take up.

9. No scholarship shall be awarded to any candidate who does not obtain 60 per cent. of the marks in each of the six subjects.

10. The examination may be passed as a whole or in sections. In the latter case the first section must consist of not less than two subjects, and the whole examination must be concluded within three years from the date of the first application.

11. No payment on account of the scholarship will be made until the whole examination is passed.

12. Applications from candidates, accompanied by a fee of £1, and by a certificate from the Director of the School of Mines, stating the number of lectures which the student has attended in each subject, must reach the Mines Department, in Wellington, not later than the 1st November in each year. Candidates who elect to pass the examination in sections as provided for in Regulation 10 will require to forward with each application a fee of £1, together with the necessary certificate from the Director of the School of Mines.

13. Candidates must present themselves for examination on the day fixed, as provided in Regulation 7.

14. The Minister of Mines retains to himself the right of cancelling any scholarship should the holder attend irregularly or be reported for idleness or bad conduct.

15. Holders of scholarships having to pay more than £5 for their return railway or steamer fare to Dunedin will be refunded by the Mines Department any excess over the sum of £5, but such refund will only be made once in each year. Receipts for each fare paid in excess of 5s. (other than railway fares) must accompany each application for a refund.

16. These regulations supersede the regulations published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 3rd February, 1927.

J. G. COATES,
For Minister of Mines.

(Mines N. 17/20.)