AUGUST 3.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1053

Bonuses on Colonial Industries.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 18th July, 1882.

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

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 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 50 tons of oil-
cake, of good marketable quality, from linseed grown
in the colony.

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, produced 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.

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 100 tons of cane sugar. The esta-
blishment by which such refining is effected must be
what is ordinarily known as a sugar-refinery. The firm
refining the first 100 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.

OSTRICHES.
A bonus of five pounds (£5) per head will be given
for healthy ostrich chicks landed in New Zealand for
the purpose of being reared and maintained in the
colony; the number of any importation to be not
less than ten nor more than fifty.

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.

Conditions.

1. 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, 1882.
2. The claim must be made before the 30th June,
4. The other conditions as to quantity, quality, and
   value to be fulfilled to the satisfaction of an officer
   appointed for the purpose by the Government.
5. Further information and particulars may be
   obtained by application to the Colonial Secretary's
   Office.

IRON.
A bonus of one thousand pounds (£1,000) will be
given for the production, in New Zealand, of 300

tons of pig-iron, of marketable quality, from ore pro-
duced in New Zealand.

Conditions.

1. The bonus not to be given for any quantity less
   than 100 tons.
2. Notice of the intention to erect ironworks and
   claim the bonus must be given to the Colonial Secre-
   tary before the 31st December, 1882.
3. The bonus must be claimed before the 31st De-
   cember, 1883.
4. In the event of more than one claimant giving
   such notice, not more than seven-tenths of the bonus
   may be claimed by the first producer, and not more
   than three-tenths by the second producer; but if
   only one claimant becomes a producer on the above
   conditions, he may claim the whole of the bonus.
5. The iron in respect of which any bonus is
   claimed, and the ore from which it is manufactured,
   will be examined by an officer to be appointed by the
   Government, who may require the production of
   bonâ fide account sales of quantities not less than
   100 tons weight, showing that such iron has been
   sold at a fair market price as pig-iron.

THOMAS DICK.

Members elected, Motueka and Suburban North
Highway Districts, Nelson.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 28th July, 1882.

IN conformity with "The (Nelson) Highways Act,
1872," it is hereby notified that the under-men-
tioned persons have been elected Members for the
following highway districts :-

Motueka Highway District-
James Satherley.
Henry Rumbold.
James Wilkie.
Frederick Parker.

Suburban North Highway District-
William Wastney.
George Edmund Wastney.
Robert Waite.

G. S. COOPER,
Under-Secretary.

Members of Pangatotara Highway Board elected,
Nelson.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 2nd August, 1882.

IN conformity with "The Nelson Highways Act,
1872," it is hereby notified that

JACOB TURNER,
ALEXANDER WHITE, and
THOMAS HEATH

were elected Members of the Pangatotara Highway
Board on the 3rd July, 1882.

G. S. COOPER,
Under-Secretary.

Volunteer Officers resigned.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 2nd August, 1882.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to accept the resigna-
tion of the commissions held by the under-mentioned
officers:-

F Battery Artillery.
Second Lieutenant Samuel Carnell. Date of re-
signation, 8th July, 1882.