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The unsuccessful exhibits will be returned to the owners
carriage-free.
The judges have power to withhold the prizes if they are
of opinion that none of the collections are worthy of an
award.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Agriculture.

Bonuses for Encouragement of New Zealand Hemp (Phor-
mium tenax) Industry.—Notice No. 387.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 1st February, 1894.

Bonus No. 1.

A BONUS of £1,750 is offered for a machine or process
for dressing New Zealand hemp (Phormium tenax)
which shall be an improvement on the machines or processes
now in use, and which shall, after trial, be found to mate-
rially reduce the cost of production, improve the product, or
increase the quantity of dressed fibre.

The following are the conditions:—

1. All applications for the bonus must be sent addressed
   to the Hon. the Minister of Agriculture, Wellington, and
   must reach him not later than the 30th August, 1894. Each
   application must be accompanied by a description of the
   machine or process, particularly stating improvements on
   present machines or processes, and also the cost at which
   the machine or process can be supplied.
2. The applicants must be prepared to submit their
   machines or processes to examination at such time and
   place as the Government may direct.
3. The Government shall appoint a committee of three or
   more experts, to whom all applications shall be submitted.
   Such committee shall, after perusal, state what machines or
   processes they deem worthy of consideration, and may in-
   spect the same at any place within the colony; and, having
   so inspected the whole or any of them, may direct that the
   whole or any of them be brought for further trial to such
   place as they may think fit.

The cost of bringing the machines or appliances on to the
ground, from within the colony, supplying the necessary
shafting, motive-power, and buildings, to be defrayed by the
Government. If any machine sent from beyond the colony
is awarded the bonus or part thereof, then the cost of
bringing such machine shall be borne by the Government.

The following shall be the basis of the test:—
The committee shall supply a sufficient and equal quan-
tity of green hemp to each machine or process as a test.
The committee shall take into consideration—
The time occupied by each machine or process in the
operation;
The cost of labour and time required after the fibre has
left the machine or process before it is ready for
baling;
The percentage of dressed fibre and tow produced by
each machine or process;
The cost of producing the same;
The cost of the machine, and the simplicity and dura-
bility of the working parts.

On completion of the tests the committee shall furnish a
report to the Minister on all the machines or processes which
they have examined or tested, and shall state,—
(1.) The machine or process which they consider on the
whole the most efficient and economic.
(2.) Whether they consider that any machine or process
tested so materially reduces the cost of produc-
tion, or improves the product, as to be worthy of
the whole bonus or of a part only.
(3.) Whether, in the event of no one machine or process
being entitled to the whole bonus, they deem any
machine or process worthy of a part of the bonus,
and, if so, how much.

Bonus No. 2.

A bonus of £250 is offered for a process of utilising the
waste products of the hemp.

The first three conditions of Bonus No. 1 to apply to this
also.

The committee shall supply a sufficient and equal quantity
of the waste products to each process as a test.

On completion of the tests the committee shall report to
the Minister, and shall give the following particulars of each
process: (a.) The nature of the article made. (b.) The
quantity produced, and the cost of production. (c.) The
value of the product. (d.) Whether any of the processes are
of sufficient importance to warrant the Minister in giving
(1) the whole, or (2) any part, of the bonus; (3) if a part
only, how much.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Agriculture.

Bonus on Starch manufactured in New Zealand.—Amended
Notice.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 15th November, 1893.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of two pounds
(£2) a ton will be paid on 100 tons of starch manu-
factured in the Colony of New Zealand in each of the years
1893 and 1894.

Conditions.

1. Notice of intention to claim the bonus for 100 tons in
   1893 must be given in writing to the Colonial Secretary not
   later than the 31st December, 1893. Notice of intention to
   claim the bonus for 100 tons in 1894 must be given in the
   same manner not later than the 31st December, 1894.
2. The claims must be made respectively before the 31st
   December, 1893 and 1894.
3. The first claimant who proves to the satisfaction of the
   Government that he has fulfilled all the conditions is to be
   the recipient of the bonus.
4. Evidence to be produced of such a nature as will enable
   an officer appointed by the Government to certify that the
   above-stated quantity in each year has been actually made,
   sold, and delivered.
5. The bonus to be paid only on the certificate of such
   officer.

P. A. BUCKLEY.

[Note.—The above notice is in lieu of notice dated 10th October,
1893, published in Gazette of 12th October, 1893.]

Notice to Receivers of Public Moneys.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 1st March, 1894.

WITH a view to the early completion of the Treasury
Accounts of the current financial year, ending on
Saturday, the 31st March, Receivers are directed to prepare
copies of their cash-books for the period ended on that day,
and to transmit the same by post to the Receiver-General
immediately after the close of the bank on that date.

In the case of officers who account four-weekly, the period
ending on the 24th instant is hereby extended to the 31st,
and the copy of cash-book must embrace all transactions
from the 24th February to the 31st March.

If any bank receipts dated on or before the 31st instant
are received from sub-offices after copies of cash-books have
been rendered, officers are directed to enter all such receipts
in a supplementary account, and to transmit a copy thereof
to the Receiver-General daily, such account to be finally
closed on the 7th April.

The first ordinary account for the new year should be for
the period from the 2nd to 7th April, both inclusive, and
should only contain such revenue as shall have been paid to
the Public Account subsequent to the 31st instant, or col-
lected after bank hours on that date. The first four-weekly
account is to be made up to the 28th April next.

Receivers who account weekly are requested to take great
care that the copies of their cash-books to be rendered during
the current month are promptly posted.

JAMES B. HEYWOOD,
Receiver-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1894.—Notice No. 10.

Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 2nd April, 1894.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the forty-fourth
year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and inti-
tuled "The Marriage Act, 1880," the following names of
Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act
are published for general information:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called
the Church of England.

The Reverend William Frederick Connor.
The Reverend Ernest Peter Cachemaille.
The Reverend Francis Drinkall Pritt, M.A.

Roman Catholic Church.

The Reverend D. Adalbert Amandolini.

Wesleyan Methodist Church.

The Reverend William J. Dawson.
The Reverend William H. Judkins.
The Reverend Samuel King.
The Reverend Charles Porter.
The Reverend Thomas Richards.
The Reverend William Sussex.
The Reverend Thomas W. Vealie.
The Reverend Richard Wilson.

Lutherans.

The Reverend Carl George Bjelke Petersen.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.