PROPOSED RULES AND CONDITIONS FOR THE KUMARA SLUDGE-CHANNEL.

Kumara Times, Issue 2382, 17 April 1884, Page 3

PROPOSED RULES AND CONDITIONS FOR THE KUMARA SLUDGE-CHANNEL.

Notice is posted at the Court House that objections to the following new Rules and Conditions may be lodged at the Warden's Court, Kumara, on Friday next, the 18th inst.:—

1. All former regulations and conditions are hereby repealed, but this repeal shall not affect any rights acquired under the regulations and conditions so repealed. 2. In the interpretation of these regulations the following words shall have the meanings herein assigned to them : "Sludge-channel" shall mean the main tail-race commonly known as the Kumara Sludge-channel, and held under certificate of registration, No. and every part thereof : "Tail-race" shall mean a registered tail-race opening into the sludgechannel, for the purpose of discharging tailings and debris into the same : "Certificate" shall mean the certificate of register for a tail-race : " Permit" shall mean a form of license to use the sludge-channel granted to any person under former regulations.

3. No person except the holder of a permit shall use the sludge-channel unless subject to these regulations. 4. All owners of tail-races whose permits have expired, or shall hereafter expire, must, before they again obtain the right to use the sludge-channel, obtain a renewal of their certificates. Such renewal shall not be for more than one year at a time, and the renewed certificate shall be indorsed subject to these regulations : Provided that no renewal shall prevent the Government from at any time closing the sludge-channel if at any time it shall be deemed necessary to do so, or entitle any person to compensation on that account.

5. No application for or registration of any new tail-race, and no renewal of any tail-race, shall give any right to use the sludge-channel unless the written consent of the Manager shall be filed in the Warden's Office.

6. No person using the sludge-channel shall be entitled to discharge any water therein other than natural drainage, except water supplied from the Government water-race, known as the Kumara waterrace.

7. For a length of 60 feet at either the upper or the lower end of every tail-race the fall shall not be greater than 4 feet in the chain, or 8 inches in every 11 feet ; and the Manager may at any time require the grade to be adjusted accordingly at whichever end he may think necessary. 8. Any share or interest in a tail-race may be transferred ; but no transfer shall be recognised unless registered in the Warden's Office, and no transfer shall be registered without the written consent of the Manager : Provided that such consent shall only be withheld so long as either the transferor or transferee shall be indebted to the Government, either for water or the use of the sludge-channel. 9. The Manager shall have power to arrange the order of working amongst the parties using the sludge-channel, and to assign to each such hours for sluicing as he may deem to be necessary for the avoidance of blocking in the sludge-chan-nel and for the safe working of the sludgechannel, water-races, and flumes. A day's use of the sludge-chanuel shall meau a period of not more than four hours, but this period shall be subject to reduction whenever this shall be necessary, f <>r the purpose of allowing every party connected with the sludge-channel to make use ..f the same. 10. The payment for the use of the sludge-channel by the registered owners of any tail-race shall be 10s per week for every person employed in any claim from which water and tailings are run iuto it. Such payment shall be made every four weeks at the office of the Manager, who may prohibit any party in arrears from using the sludge-channel until payment is made. 11. No party using the sludge-channei shall employ in connection therewith a greater number of men than that specified on their certificate, without first giving notice to the Manager of the number ol men so to be employed ; and payment for the use of the sludge-channef sliali made accordingly until notice stall ...v« been given that the number of mei 11-. been reduced.

12. All persona using the sludge-chan-nel shall immediately stop sluicing int.. t when required so to do by the Manas-er w his deputy, either verbally or in writing, or by signal, and no person shall have any claim for compensation by reason of such interruption of work: Provided t ! i i . if the loss of time during working h-. m in any one day caused by notice from the Manager by reason of the blocking of the sludge-channel or any other cause shall exceed half an hour, at any one time allowance pro rata for such loss of time shall be made in the charge f■>!• ■*■ 13. The Manager shad at ait t. : ...,,. full access to any tail-race discharging into the sludge-channel, or any claim e >iv nected with such tail-race; and ■■■■ person owning, occupying, or si tail-race or claim shall, when Miuu „ „ the said Manage,-. ; ■ ' , .. deputy every facility for ohraiium: such' access, and for a!io»-ii.,r n, 5 .,,,...; „, ~ ,p or their claim an.i iug thereof. 14. The holders , tail liable in damages for any imj .iv .. sludge-chaunel by the neglect, 'carelessness, or unskilful working of any person employed in or about their claims or tailraces. 15. No protection of any claim or tail.

race shall be applied for, or shall be valid, unless written notice of the application shall have been previously given to the Manager. 16. All persons owning, occupying or using tail-races connected with or running into the said sludge-channel shall keep and at all times maintain, in a conspicuous place near the head of their boxes, so as to be plainly seen from the surface of their claim, an iron or wooden grating, to be approved of by the Manager before and after being fixed, and of such size and dimensions as to prevent stones, tailings, timber and other substances of greater diameter than nine inches, measured in any way, from passing through their said tail-races into the said sludge-channel; and no person shall, under any circumstances, send into or down the said sludge-channel stones, tailings, timber, or other solid substances of a greater diameter than that above specified. _ No angular stones whatever shall run into the channel,-and any person found breaking stones up in order to reduce them to the minimum size above defined shall be held to have'committed a wilful breach of these regulations : Provided that the size of the grating may, if the state of the sludge-channel shall render it necessary, be further reduced upon the renewal of the certificate of any tailrace. . '

17. The entrance from every tail-race to the sludge-channel shall be constructed in a workman-like manner, and shall at all times be kept in good and substantial repair, to the satisfaction of the Manger ; and no props or timber of any tail-race within .10 feet of the sludge-channel shall be removed without the consent of the Manager. 18. If any party neglect or refuse to comply with any of these conditions after notice in writing, the Manager may prohibit such party from using the sludgechannel until the conditions are complied with, or an order of the Warden obtained : Provided that, in case of urgent: necessity, the Manager may do and perform any act, matter, or thing at the expense of any person who, being required! under these conditions to do or perfomr the same, shall after written notice, refuse or neglect to comply.