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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No 76

Regulation by Central Board of Health.

Office of the Central Board of Health,
Wellington, 27th September, 1881.

THE following regulation has been made by the
Central Board of Health, and is published for
general information.

THOMAS DICK.

REGULATION.

WHEREAS it has been represented to the Central
Board of Health, by the Local Board of Health of
the County of Thames, that a formidable infectious
epidemic disease exists within the said county, and
that special precautions are required to prevent the
spread of such disease: Now, therefore, the Central
Board of Health, in pursuance of the powers con-
ferred upon it by subsection 3 of section 20 of "The
Public Health Act, 1876," doth hereby make the
following regulation, that is to say,-

Upon its being publicly notified by the Local Board
of Health of the County of Thames that a formidable
infectious epidemic disease exists within the boun-
daries thereof, and that the said Local Board are
prepared to provide and defray all expenses of food,
nursing, and medical attendance for any households
infected with such disease, it shall not be lawful for
any person, other than the medical man or officer of
the said Local Board of Health, to enter into or to
visit any house knowing the same to be occupied by
any person suffering from such disease, or, being in
such house, to leave it, or to remove any articles
therefrom, without permission in writing from such
Local Board, or from any officer whom they may
appoint for the purpose of giving such permission;
and this regulation shall remain in force for three
months from the gazetting thereof.

Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of September,
1881.

THOMAS DICK,
Colonial Secretary,
President of Central Board of Health.

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.

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 or any
other root or plant grown in the colony.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

BUTTER OR CHEESE.

A bonus of five hundred pounds (£500) will be
given for the first 25 tons of butter or the first 50
tons of cheese (produced in a factory worked on the
American principle, and to which factory any farmer,
subject to certain conditions, may send his milk),
which shall be exported from New Zealand, and sold
at such prices in a foreign market as shall show that
the articles are of fair quality.

MEAT.

A bonus of five hundred pounds (£500) will be
given on the first 100 tons of fresh meat exported
from New Zealand in vessels fitted with refrigerating
machinery. Such meat must have been collected in
a refrigerating chamber in this colony, and must
have been landed in Europe in sound marketable
condition.

CONDITIONS.

NOTICE of intention to claim any of the above
bonuses must be given in writing to the Colonial
Secretary not later than the 31st December, 1881.