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A list of the certificates issued since my last report and which have been confirmed by the Boards is appended : — COAL-MINES ACT, 1925. Second-class Mine-managers' Certificates. Issued after Examination. —Adamson, James, Greymouth ; Forsyth, Neil, Westport; Hector, William, Rnnanga ; Marshall, Robert, Dobson ; Quinn, Harry, Blackball. Mine-surveyors' Certificates. Issued after Examination. —Inglis, William Carrick, Pukemiro ; Lennox, Gordon Murray, RenownUnderviewers' Certificates. Issued after Examination. —Alborn, Roderick Victor, Reefton ; Cohen, Ernest, Capleston ; Jamieson, Alexander Clelland, Blackball; Smith, Basil, Dunollie ; Snedden, William Hector, Kaitangata. Firemen-deputies' Certificates. Issued after Examination.—Aims, Abraham, Dunollie ; Barclay, William John, Kaitangata ; Brazier, Charles James, Ohai; Brown, Archibald, Oturehua ; Charles, Ernest, Coalgate ; Dodds, John, Dunedin ; Fauth, Frederick, Blaketown ; Gray, John, Hikurangi ; McAuley, Robert Thomas, Kaitangata ; McQueen, David, Sheffield ; Queen, John Joseph, Burnett's Face ; Robb, Henry James, Whiteclifls ; Short, Robert, Twelve-Mile, Greymouth ; Williams, James Mitchell, Reefton. MINING ACT, 1926. First-class Mine-manager's Certificate. Issued after Examination. —Thomson, George Watt, Dunedin. Battery Superintendents' Certificates. Issued after Examination.—Clifton, Leslie, Waikino; Hoyle, Harold Edwin, Thames ; Walsh, Arthur James, Waihi. MINING AMENDMENT ACT, 1927. Dredgemasters' Class A Certificates. Issued after Examination. —Anderson, Edward Thomas, Dunedin ; Hamer, Frederick Robert, Cardrona ; Orr, William James, Murchison. Dredgemasters' Class B Certificates. Issued after Examination.—Caithness, David, Upper Nevis ; Cook, Alexander Young, Waimumu ; Keith, Alexander, Ngahere ; McPherson, Ben Binnie, Reefton. Issued on Production of Certificate from a Recognized Authority outside of the Dominion.—Pearson, Gordon Alexander, Parawa ; Walker, Andrew, Caversham, Dunedin. Dredgemasters' Certificates endorsed as Class A Certificates. French, Thomas Edward Kerswell, Murchison ; Turner, Thomas Francis, Atarau. One duplicate battery superintendents' certificate was issued. Fifty-five gas-testing certificates were issued under the Coal-mines Act during the year. I have &c., J. Henderson, The Under-Secretary, Mines Department, Wellington. Chairman of Boards. Approximate Cost of Paper.—Preparation, not Riven; printing (670 copies), £115.

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