PROPOSED RULES AND CONDITIONS FOR THE KUMARA SLUDGE CHANNEL.

Kumara Times, Issue 2394, 1 May 1884, Page 4

PROPOSED RULES AND CONDITIONS FOR THE KUMARA SLUDGE CHANNEL.

Objections to the following new Rules and Conditions may be lodged at the Warden’s Court, Kumara, on Friday, the 2nd May :

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 All former regulations and conditions are hereby repealed, but this repeal shall not affect any rights acquired under the regulations and conditions so repealed. 2.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 regu-

lations 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 king as either the transferor or transferee shall be indebted to the Government, either for water or the use of the sludge-channel. 0. 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 Mocking in the sludge-chan-nel and for the safe working of the slndgochanuel. water-races, and flumes. A day’s use of the sludge-channel shall mean a period of not more than four hours, but this period shall be subject to reduction whenever this shall be necessary, for the purpose of allowing every party connected with the sludge-channel to make use of 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 into it. Such payment shall he 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-channel shall employ in connection therewith a greater 31 umber of men than chat specified on their certificate, without first giving notice to the Manager of the number of men so to be employed ; and payment for ihe nee'of the sludge-channel shall be made accordingly until notice shall have been given that the number of men has been rod need. 12. Ail persons using the sludge-chan-nel shall immediately stop sluicing into it ■when required so to do by the Manager or his deputy, either verbally or in writ in " or by signal, and no person shall have any.claim for compensation by reason of such interruption of work-: Provided that, if the loss of time during working hours 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 fmshall be made in the charge for water. " ; b Thu if nm.gvv ehrli'ac r.h far; ’ av: fnl' a/.-cccr, fo my tail-race di?c.hargsv»i--into tno ab;ugc-c’:n:v:?l, or any elm'r.i c< :i----■iffA;;.. yog:, such taihaa.?o ; and every v; ■ nP; Silvh b,- v cyci.usu shall, when required by rayer, um.rd Mm or hb- ’ f •.■nnt;/ for obbrining such 1 ; _ ' ■ .-.bowing inspection of h’a ■ ■ -V c.mm and tad-vacc and the wov;:- , - y y'ha - f •’e-' of f-n-v-.ee Mali be ■ '■be;-. X;»r any hfu-v j-,. -u.,. - -d bv i’m nVyeM. W’r-

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 ren-

der 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 perform the same, shall after written notice, refuse or neglect to comply.