284 Apjyendix A. 



(2) The name ami address of such manager for the time being 

 shall be notified in writing by tiie holder of the mine to the Com- 

 missioner. 



(3) No person shall be appointed manager of a mine who is not 

 permitted by the Commissioner to act as such manager and who has 

 not the management and control of the mining ojjerations carried on 

 at such mine. 



Restrictions on 164. No female of any age, and no male child under the age of 



employment of fourteen years, shall be employed for hire in any capacity in connec- 



women ftllCl ,. -iIji 1* n ■ T 1 



children. tion With the Working ot a mine underground. 



Regulation as to 165. — (1) No boy under the age of sixteen years shall be 



employment of employed below ground foi' more than forty-eight hours in any week, 



exclusive of the time allowed for meals, or more than eight hours in 



any day. 



(2) No male under the age of twenty years shall be employed as 

 lander or liraceman at any time at a brace over any shaft. 



(3) No person shall be deemed guilty of a breach of this Regu- 

 lation relating to the time for <??hich persons shall not be employed 

 below ground, if he proves there were special circumstances to render 

 such contravention necessary for the proper working of the mine, and 

 that such contravention was not injurious to the workmen employed 

 in the mine. 



Limitation of 166. No person ill charge of steam or other machinery used in 



of°persons'in^ * connection with any mine, or for the treatment of the products of any 



charse of steam mine, shall be employed for more than eight consecutive hours at any 



machinery. time ; such period of eight hours shall be exclusive of any time 



occupied in raising steam, and in drawing files and exhausting steam 



in connection with the machinery in charge of such person, and 



exclusive of meal hours, and of any time in which such person is 



employed in case of breakage or other emergency. 



Power to 167. A Warden shall have power to authorise in writing the 



authorise entry entry of any Surveyor, Assessor, Inspectoi', or other person into and 

 of surveyor, etc. •' „,, *'. -t. e j.\, £ ii: i ^u r 



upon any mine or site, tor tne pui'pose ot measuring the depth oi any 



shaft, dip, or inclination, or the length of any tunnel or drive, or for 

 any other ])urpose. 



Genera! rules to 168. The following general rules shall, so far as may be reason- 



be observed m j^]^iy practicable, be observed at every mine, that is to sa}' : — 

 mine. (1) An adequate amount of ventilation shall be constantly pro- 



duced in the mine to such an extent that the shafts, winzes, 

 sumps, levels, and working places of the mine, and the 

 travelling road to and from such working jjlaces, shall be in 

 a fit state for working and passing therein ; 



(2) When cross drives or openings are required for ventilatifni 



and the various parties concerned cannot agree thereon, the 

 Warden or Mining Inspector may issue an order for making 

 such drives or openings and for the allocation of the work 

 to be performed, and also foi' the distribution of any auri-^ 

 ferous deposits which may be found in the intcM-veiiing wall ; 



(3) Gunpowder or other explosive or inflammable substance shall 



only be used in the mine as hereinafter ])rovidc(l, 



((/) It may be stored in a chamber (u- magazine of the 

 mine, at a distance of not less than two hundred feet 

 from where any fclasting operations are being cai'iied on; 



