750
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 37

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.

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.

Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th 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.

Tamaki Road Board, County of Eden :
John Ferguson.
Richard Henry Hattley.
William Thomson.
John White.

Opaheke Road Board, County of Manukau :
Michael Shaughnesy.
Daniel Brisbane.
Edwin Bywater.
William Trail.
Ernest Wagner.

Mangere Road Board, County of Manukau :
John Edward Taylor.
William Westney, jun.
R. H. McKenzie.

Papatoitoi Road Board, County of Manukau :
James Bell.
Robert Carruth.
John Wyllie.

Otahuhu Road Board, County of Manukau :
James Atkinson.
Charles Farnsworth.
Bernard McCrory.
Henry Mitchell, jun.
Alfred Sturges.

Turanga Road Board, County of Manukau :
Francis Dibble.
John Granger.
Charles Wade.

Hunua Road Board, County of Manukau :
George Hill.
George Hirst.
Archibald McDonald.

Maraetai Road Board, County of Manukau :
William Duder.
John Gilbert.
James Jacobs.
Stanley Jeffreys.

Wairoa Road Board, County of Manukau :
Samuel Augustus Browne.
Daniel Crawford.
Patrick Maguire.

Waitoa Road Board, County of Piako :
William Philip Chepmell.
William Main.
Michael O’Donoghue.

Whaingaroa Road Board, County of Raglan :
John Moon.
Robert Vernon Smith.
Hugh Sutherland.

Pirongia Road Board, County of Raglan :
Isaac Hodgson.
James Groom.
William Bruce.

Wirokino Road Board, County of Horowhenua :
Kereru Ward—
John Davies.
Kingston Ward—
George Houston Wallace.

Pohangina Road Board, County of Oroua :
No. 2 Ward—
Herbert Dickin.
No. 4 Ward—
Frank Wilson Arlion.
No. 5 Ward—
William Vicary.

Kohi Road Board, County of Patea :
Robert Bremer.
Thomas S. Ion.
James McMeckin.

Whenua-Waitotara Road Board, County of Patea :
No. 2 Ward—
Duncan McDonald.

Waitotara-Momohaki Road Board, County of Patea :
James Kennedy.
James William Durie.
John Alexander.

Okato Road Board, County of Taranaki :
James Brophy.
Charles Sole.

Suburban North Road Board, County of Waimea :
William Gill.
Daniel Slater.
Henry Wastney.

Kowai Road Board, County of Ashley :
Richard Bristow.
John Vallance, jun.
John Mathers.

Mandeville and Rangiora Road Board, County of Ashley :
Henry Francis Gray.
Donald McIntyre.
Joseph Byron Moody.
George Wallace.

Ellesmere Road Board, County of Selwyn :
William Watson, sen.
George Chester Waby.
William McMillan.