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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 34

Prizes for System of Marking Sheep.—Notice No. 390.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 8th May, 1894.

THE under-mentioned prizes are offered for—

1st. A complete system of marking sheep, other than wool-branding, either wholly on the ear or partly on the ear and partly on the face, and to include provision for registered age- and stud-marks. First prize, £10; second prize, £5.

2nd. The best combination of ear-marks made with punch or nippers for ear only. (Samples of approved marks on application to any Stock Inspector.) First prize, £5; second prize, £2 10s.

All applications must be addressed "The Secretary for Agriculture, Wellington"; and must reach this office not later than the 30th June, 1894.

Each application must be marked with a motto only, and be accompanied with a sealed envelope bearing the same motto, and containing the name and address of the competitor.

The prize-winners lose all right to their schemes, but those of unsuccessful competitors will be returned to them on application.

The judge or judges have power to withhold any or all of the prizes if they are of opinion that none of the schemes submitted are worthy of an award.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Agriculture.

Bonuses for Encouragement of New Zealand Hemp (Phormium 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 materially 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 inspect 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 quantity 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 durability 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 production, 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.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 21st September, 1893.

IN pursuance of regulations under "The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886," notice is hereby given that for the Senior Examination of January, 1895, the period of literature will be the latter end of the eighteenth century, and the special books will be Shakespeare's "Julius Cæsar" and Thackeray's "Esmond."

W. P. REEVES,
Minister of Education.

Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 9th May, 1894.

THE following notices of elections of members of Road Boards have been received at this office, and are published in accordance with the provisions of "The Road Boards Act, 1882."

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Kaurihohore Road Board, County of Whangarei:
J. R. McInnes.
N. McKenzie.
J. H. McInnes.

Waikiekie Road Board, County of Whangarei:
Harry Hilford.
Charles Edwin Hayward.

Matakana West Road Board, County of Rodney:
Septimus Meiklejohn.
William Smith.
Charles Simons.
John Williams, jun.

Mount Wellington Road Board, County of Eden:
Lieut.-Colonel Charlton Dawson.
Thomas Morrin.
Andrew Stevenson Thompson.

Tamaki West Road Board, County of Eden:
Thomas Atkinson.
George Penrose Hawke.
James Scott.

Opaheke North Road Board, County of Manukau:
James Thomas Cossey.
William Fulton.

Kumeroa Road Board, County of Waipawa:
River Ward—
Patrick Henry Lynch.
Totara Ward—
James Shaw.
Township Ward—
James Storrie.

Castlepoint Road Board, County of Wairarapa North:
No. 2 Subdivision—
James Spinks Langdon.
No. 3 Subdivision—
John Frederick Maunsell.
No. 4 Subdivision—
William Dalziell.
No. 5 Subdivision—
John Chapman Andrew.