MINE MANAGERS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1763, 30 May 1913, Page 5

MINE MANAGERS.

EXAMINATION RESULTS,

The annual meeting of the Boards of Examiners under the Mining and Coal Mine 3 Act was held in Wellington yesterday, and the following certificates were granted:— MINING ACT, 1903. First-class Mino Managers.—A. J. Walter,'lT. Sullivan, C. W. Gudgeon. Battery Superintendents.—F. S. Orr, H. lawn, It. Crawford. DredgomMtors.—T. F. Turner, T. L. Dalzell. 'GOAL MINES ACT, 1908. First-class Mino Manager.—'!'. Jones. E. J.Sooble. ■ Seoond-clnss Mino Manager.—A. 8011, A. (Ferguson. J. Allen. U nderviewers. —F. Carson, C. J. Strongman, W. S. Clark, J. L. Sweeney, J. Ct. M'Lcod, J. T. Mosley. ' Firemen and Deputies.—H. 31 Kenty, J;., T. Jones, T. Ishcrwood, W. Kobson, J • Nicholson, I). Voitcli, J. Hurdie, A. Ferguson, J. Jones. A. Bull, J. lin, W. T. Bond, D. Harvey, J. F. Wilson, J. PhillipSj J. Atkinson. LAND BOARD INDIGNANT. ACTION OF HEAD OFFICE. . At the meeting of the Land Board yesterday Mr. Eilingham brought up the piatter.of disposal of a block of land in ■ho Whiriraki Survey District las . month without tho exemption under Section 1. 0 i the' Land Act. 190S, winch the board recommended. He submitted that t board should have had the oppoitunit.Y of revising the prices, before disposal. From thp short discussion that iolloned the members of the board showed that they resented the .action of tho head offije. Oiio member said that it was simply telling us in plain words that wb do liot know what we are doing. Later a letter was read from the UnderSecretary for Lands dealing with the recommendation of .':he board that ccrtam sections be exempt from rent and rates for a period of four years from disposal. The commissioner pointed out that this was a case directly in ]»int. The following resolution was accordingly, moved: "That the Under-Secretary for Lands, having advised the board that th? Gov-, eminent cannot accept its resolution to reoffer Sections 5, Block XIII, Kaitieke, ■3 Block I, Mnngntnii, and 5 Block All. Whiriraki, with exemption from rent and rates for four years, and that they will bo reofferedi at the originiU prioes without exemption, the board is of opinion that tho matter should be referred back to it in order that it may bo decided what compensating reduction in rent should bo mado before the lands are reoffered." .•