Now therefore, I, William Rolleston,
Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury aforesaid, do hereby proclaim and
declare that the aforesaid Bill has been laid before His Excellency the Governor, and
that his Excellency has assented to the same.

Given under my hand, at Christchurch,
this 15th day of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.

PUBLIC NOTICE.

UPPER WAIMAKARIRI ROAD DISTRICT.

In pursuance of Clause 57 of The Roads Ordinance, 1869, I hereby call a
Meeting of the Ratepayers of the above District for Thursday, the 23rd day of February,
at the Cass Hotel, at noon.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office,
Canterbury, Feb. 20, 1871.

WILLIAM ROLLESTON, Superintendent of the Province of Canterbury, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in me by The Cemetery Reserves Management Ordinance, 1870, and with the advice of the Executive Council, do hereby appoint the undermentioned persons to be Managers of the Cemetery Reserves, situate at Oxford, and numbered 162 (in red) on the map of the Chief Surveyor of the said Province:—

Joseph Pearson,
Thomas Woodfield,
Wilson Fisher,
Reverend D. Dolamore,
David Fisher.

Given under my hand, at Christchurch,
this 15th day of February, 1871.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Superintendent of Canterbury.

PUBLIC NOTICE.

His Honor the Superintendent directs it to be notified that he has appointed

James Neale

to be Poundkeeper at the Leithfield Pound, in the room of Robert Green resigned.

WALTER KENNAWAY,
Secretary for Public Works.

Public Works Office,
Christchurch, February 14, 1871.

ERRATUM.

In Schedule to Proclamation in Gazette
No. III., dated January 31st, 1871,
constituting Weeden Educational District,
in third line, for “5885,” read “5385.”

PUBLIC NOTICE.

UPPER WAIMAKARIRI ROAD DISTRICT.

[Extract from page 80 of New Zealand Gazette, No. 8, February 4, 1871.]

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd February, 1871.

In compliance with recommendations contained in the Reports of the Flax Commission Committee, and of the Joint Committee on Colonial Industries, to the effect that “premiums not exceeding in the whole £500, should be granted for the encouragement of Sericulture in the Colony, and that the development of certain industrial pursuits would often be best promoted by the offer of a bonus on production, the following Rewards are offered, subject to the undernentioned conditions:—

A bonus of 50 per cent. on the value realised is offered for the production of the first £1,000 worth of cocoons of the Silkworm or eggs of the Silkworm produced in the Colony, to be paid on quantities of not less value than £50 or more than £100 produced by any one person.

To any person or persons who shall manufacture, within the Colony, from New Zealand flax—

For the first 500 reams of Printing Paper, a sum of £400; and a further sum of £250 for the first 500 reams of Packing Paper;
and the like sum for the first 10,000 yards of Scrim-cloth suitable for covering flax bales.

CONDITIONS.

The required quantity of each article to be completed before the 30th June, 1872.

The weight of each ream of Printing Paper to be not less than 30lbs.; of each ream of Packing Paper not less than 40lbs.; and of each piece of Scrim-cloth of 100 yards in length and double width, not less than 30lbs.

The rewards will be paid on the certificate of an officer to be appointed by the Government that the above conditions have been complied with.

W. GISBORNE.