✨ Government Industrial Bonuses
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NELSON GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
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 undermentioned conditions:—
A bonus of 50 per cent on the value realised is offered for the production of the first £1000 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.
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Nelson Provincial Gazette 1871, No 18
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Premiums for the encouragement of the flax and sericulture industries
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🌾 Primary Industries & ResourcesSericulture, Silkworm, Flax, Bonuses, Industrial production, Printing paper, Packing paper, Scrim-cloth
- W. Gisborne