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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 72

Bonus for the Manufacture of Pig-iron from Ironsand or Iron-ore.

Mines Office,
Wellington, 24th February, 1892.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of £1 per ton will be paid on the production of the first 500 tons of pig-iron of marketable quality manufactured in the colony after this date from magnetic or titaniferous ironsand or iron-ore, all material, fuel, and fluxes being the produce of New Zealand, on the following conditions, that is to say:—

1. The bonus must be claimed before the 31st March, 1893.
2. The bonus will be payable in instalments of £50 as each lot of 50 tons of iron is manufactured, on the certificate of an officer appointed by the Minister of Mines that the iron is of good marketable quality.
3. In the event of more than one person manufacturing the required quality of pig-iron before the date named, inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when, if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus, the amount will be divided; but in no case shall the total amount of money paid by way of bonus exceed £500.
4. The iron in respect of which any bonus is claimed and the ironsand or ore from which it is manufactured will be examined by the officer aforesaid, who may require proof that not only the ore, but that the lime, coal, and any other material used in the manufacture, is of genuine New Zealand production, and that sales of pig-iron have been made at fair market prices.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Mines.

Bonus for the Manufacture of Salt.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 24th February, 1892.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of £1 per ton will be paid on the production of the first 500 tons of salt, exclusively either by evaporation of salt-water or from rock mined in the colony, on the following conditions, that is to say:—

1. The bonus must be claimed before the 31st March, 1893.
2. Not more than £250 will be paid for salt manufactured in the North Island, and not more than £250 for salt manufactured in the South Island.
3. The bonus will be payable in instalments of £50 as each lot of 50 tons of salt is manufactured, on the certificate of an officer appointed by the Minister of Mines that the salt is of good marketable quality.
4. In the event of more than one person manufacturing the stated quantity of salt in the North or South Islands respectively before the 31st March, 1893, inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when, if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus in either the North Island or the South Island, the amount will be divided, but in no case shall more than £250 be paid for salt manufactured in the North Island and £250 for salt manufactured in the South Island.
5. The salt in respect of which any bonus is claimed and the material used in its manufacture will be examined by the officer aforesaid, who may require proof that the salt is of genuine New Zealand production, and that sales have been made at fair market prices.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Mines.

Portion of Land taken for the Wellington-Napier Railway ceasing to be a Part of such Railway.

A NOTIFICATION.

WHEREAS certain land described in the Schedule hereto, being a portion of section forty-one in the Heretaunga Block, situate in the Survey District of Te Mata, in the County of Hawke’s Bay, was entered upon on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen prior to the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, for the purpose of constructing the Wellington-Napier Railway; and such land, in pursuance of the provisions contained in section ten of “The Public Works Acts Amendment Act, 1889,” has been deemed to have been duly taken for railway purposes, though no Proclamation taking the said land for railway purposes has been issued: And whereas it is found desirable that the said land should cease to be a part of the said railway:
Now, therefore, we, the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on us by “The Government Railways Act, 1887,” and by virtue of the said section ten of “The Public Works Acts Amendment Act, 1889,” do hereby notify and declare that the land described in the Schedule below shall cease to be a part of the aforesaid Wellington-Napier Railway, and shall be deemed as if not having been previously entered upon for the purposes of the said railway.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land containing 4½ perches, more or less, being a portion of Section No. 41, in the Heretaunga Block, in the Te Mata Survey District, and being a parallelogram. Bounded on the north-west by the south-east boundary of the 1-chain-wide railway reserve adjoining said Section No. 41, taken by a Proclamation dated the 2nd day of April, 1883, a distance of 134 links; on the south-west by the road forming the south-western boundary of said Section No. 41, a distance of 20 links; on the south-east by a portion of said Section No. 41, a distance of 134 links; and on the north-east by another portion of said Section No. 41, a distance of 20 links.

Given under the common seal of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, at Wellington, this ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

(L.S.)

JAMES MCKERROW.
J. P. MAXWELL.
W. M. HANNAY.

Declaring that certain Fences constructed in connection with the Line of Railway from Palmerston North by way of the Manawatu Gorge to Woodville, Palmerston-Gorge Section, shall be maintained at the Cost of Her Majesty the Queen.

A NOTIFICATION.

WHEREAS on or about the month of December, 1890, certain fences were constructed by the Government of New Zealand along the line of railway from Palmerston North by way of the Manawatu Gorge to Woodville: And whereas the said railway has become vested in the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, and all the powers relating to the management, working, and maintenance thereof have been conferred upon the said Commissioners by virtue of “The Government Railways Act, 1887” (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”): And whereas it is desirable that the fences so constructed shall (to the extent mentioned in the Schedule below) be maintained, as hereinafter set forth:
Now, therefore, we, the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred on us by the said Act and “The Public Works Acts Amendment Act, 1887,” and of every other power and authority in anywise enabling us in that behalf, do hereby declare that the fencing erected on behalf of Her Majesty at both sides of the said railway, throughout the whole extent to which it passes through the lands mentioned in the Schedule hereunder, shall be hereafter wholly maintained at the cost of Her said Majesty during such time as the said railway may continue to be used by or on behalf of the Government of New Zealand, or by us, the said Commissioners.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Provincial District of Wellington; as the said railway is delineated on plan marked P.W.D. 16074, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the said provincial district.

Given under the common seal of the New Zealand Railway Commissioners, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two.

(L.S.)

JAMES MCKERROW.
J. P. MAXWELL.
W. M. HANNAY.