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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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gentlemen have been appointed by the Education
Boards respectively authorized in that behalf to be
School Commissioners for the several provincial dis-
tricts, as follows:-

Auckland.
James McCosh Clarke, Esq.

Taranaki.
The Ven. Henry Govett.
Robert Parris, Esq.

Hawke's Bay.
John Davies Ormond, Esq.
Frederick Sutton, Esq.

Wellington.
The Hon. Sir William Fox.

Nelson.
John Wallis Barnicoat, Esq.
William Rout, Esq.

Westland.
Henry Lee Robinson, Esq.

Canterbury.
Henry Richard Webb, Esq.

Otago.
The Hon. James Alex. Robertson Menzies.

THOMAS DICK.

SUGAR.
A bonus of one thousand pounds (£1,000) will be
given for the production of the first 125 tons of sugar,
manufactured in New Zealand, from beet grown in
the colony.

LINSEED OIL.
A bonus of five hundred pounds (£500) will be
given for the production, by machinery permanently
established in New Zealand, of the first ten thousand
(10,000) gallons of oil, of good marketable quality,
from linseed grown in the colony.

OIL CAKE.
A bonus of one hundred pounds (£100) will be
given for the production of the first fifty tons of oil
cake, of good marketable quality, from linseed grown
in the colony.

Resignation of Member of Land Board.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 23rd May, 1881.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
accept the resignation of
WILLIAM SIMPSON SMITH, Esq.,
as a Member of the Land Board of the Land District
of Westland.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

STARCH.
A bonus of three hundred pounds (£300) will be
given on the first fifty tons of starch, manufactured
in the colony, which shall be shipped to an English
market, and for which a satisfactory certificate shall
be given by dealers or brokers in England that the
starch is of good marketable quality.

SILK.
A bonus of fifty per cent. on the value realized
for the first thousand pounds' (£1,000) worth of
cocoons of the silkworm, or silkworms' eggs, pro-
duced in the colony, to be paid on quantities of not
less value than fifty pounds (£50) nor more than
one hundred pounds (£100) produced by any one
person.

Civil Service Examination.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th May, 1881.

THE following amended rule for the conduct of
Civil Service Examinations, having been approved
by His Excellency the Governor, is published for
general information, and is to come into force on
the 1st June, 1881.

THOMAS DICK.

AMENDED regulations respecting Examinations under
"The Civil Service Act, 1866." To come into force
on the first of June, 1881.

Regulation No. 12 of regulations made the 11th
June, 1880, and gazetted the 17th June, 1880, page
903, is hereby rescinded, and the following regulation
made in lieu thereof:-

12. Although shorthand is not a compulsory sub-
    ject, great importance will be attached to a knowledge
    of it in the selection of candidates for the Civil
    Service. Any person in the employment of the
    Government, or who may have passed the Junior
    Civil Service Examination, may be separately ex-
    amined in shorthand, and a special certificate given
    accordingly.

SULPHURIC ACID.
A bonus of five hundred pounds (£500) per
annum will be given for three years in succession
for the production each year, by machinery esta-
blished in New Zealand, of not less than fifty tons
of sulphuric acid, of good marketable quality. The
producer to the satisfaction of the Colonial Secretary
of the first fifty tons shall be also entitled to the
payments of the two following years if he fulfils the
conditions.

EARTHENWARE.
A bonus of two hundred and fifty pounds (£250)
will be given on the first £1,000 worth of household
earthenware manufactured in the colony, on proof
that it has been sold at such prices as to show that it
is of good marketable quality.

Bonuses on Colonial Industries.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th May, 1881.

NOTICE is hereby given that the following bonuses
will be paid on articles produced in the Colony
of New Zealand, as under :-

SUGAR-REFINING.
A bonus of five hundred pounds (£500) will be
given for three years in succession for the refining
each year, by machinery established in New Zealand,
of not less than one hundred tons of cane sugar.
The establishment by which such refining is effected
must be what is ordinarily known as a sugar-refinery.
The firm refining the first one hundred tons of sugar,
and receiving the bonus, shall be also entitled to the
bonus of the two following years upon fulfilling the
conditions above named.

GUNPOWDER.
The Government are prepared to receive pro-
posals from any person willing to establish a factory
for the manufacture of blasting and sporting powder.
The proposer to state what amount of bonus he would
require to induce him to undertake the manufacture.
The place where the factory is to be erected to be
subject to the approval of the Government, the
plans and specifications of the building to be also
approved by Government.
All the internal fittings and the arrangements for
carrying on the manufacture of the gunpowder to
be subject to the inspection of an officer appointed
by the Government.