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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 23

I hereby certify that the above special order has been duly
made by the Ashburton County Council.

As witness my hand, this 14th day of March, 1895.

F. MAINWARING,
Clerk of the Ashburton County Council.

I approve of the above special order.

GLASGOW,
Governor.

[Note.—This notification is in substitution of notification pub-
lished in Gazette No. 13, of 21st February, 1895, page 332.]

Special Orders made by the Whatuapoko Road Board,
County of Cook.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 27th March, 1895.

THE following special orders, made by the Whatuapoko
Road Board, are published in accordance with the
provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”
P. A. BUCKLEY.

SPECIAL ORDERS made by the Whatuapoko Road Board, at
a Special Meeting held on the 9th February, 1895, and
confirmed at a Special Meeting held on the 12th March,
1895.

RESOLVED, That an annual special rate of 3d. in the pound
be made upon the rateable value of the following lands for
a period of twenty-six years, commencing on the 1st April,
1895, and ending on the 31st March, 1921, for the purpose
of providing interest upon a loan of £100, raised for the
construction of part of Stout Street, North Gisborne; the
rate to be due and payable in two equal instalments, on the
1st day of June and 1st day of December in each year.

Schedule.

Sections 81 to 89, 91 to 100, 143, 144, Block C, Whata-
upoko.

The common seal of the inhabitants of the Whatuapoko
Road District was hereto affixed in the presence of—

H. M. PORTER,
Chairman.

I hereby certify that the foregoing special order has been
made in accordance with law, and that all the provisions of
the Road Boards Act have been complied with.

H. M. PORTER,
Chairman.

Resolved, That an annual special rate of 2d. in the
pound be made upon the rateable value of the following
lands for a period of twenty-six years, commencing on the
1st April, 1895, and ending on the 31st March, 1921, for the
purpose of providing interest upon a loan of £100, to be
raised for the construction of Upper Fox Street; the rate to
be due and payable in two equal instalments, on the 1st day
of June and 1st day of December in each year.

Schedule.

Sections 60, 61, 64, 65, 68, Block D, and Sections 26 to 28,
Block F, Whatuapoko.

The common seal of the inhabitants of the Whatuapoko
Road District was hereto affixed in the presence of—

H. M. PORTER,
Chairman.

I hereby certify that the foregoing special order has been
made in accordance with law, and that all the provisions of
the Road Boards Act have been complied with.

H. M. PORTER,
Chairman.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 25th March, 1895.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue
Letters of Naturalisation, under “The Aliens Act,
1880,” in favour of the under-mentioned persons:—

P. A. BUCKLEY.

Notice of Intention to take Land for a Road near Fairlie.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the
provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” to exe-
cute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a
road in Tengawai Survey District, and for the purposes of
such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto
is required to be taken; and notice is further given that
the plan of the said road and of the land so required to be
taken is deposited in the Post-office at Fairlie, and is there
open for inspection. And notice is hereby given that all per-
sons affected by the execution of the said public work or by
the taking of the said land shall, if they have any well-
grounded objections to the execution of the said public work
or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing,
and send such writing, within forty days from the first pub-
lication of this notice, to the Minister for Public Works,
Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing
by admeasurement 3 acres 3 roods 9 perches, more or less,
situated in Blocks V. and VI., Tengawai Survey District,
being a road 100 links wide, passing through Sections Nos.
30213 and 30361, the western and southern side of which
commences at a point on the northern side of the road which
passes through said Section No. 30213 distant easterly
1626·4 links from Section No. 2008 (measuring along the
northern side of the said road), and proceeds generally in a
northerly and thereafter in a westerly direction for a distance
of 3623·4 links to the northernmost corner of the said Section
No. 2008: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-first
day of March, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-five.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Notice as to the Day for closing under “The Shops and
Shop-assistants Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS the local authorities respectively mentioned
in the first column of the Schedule hereto have
duly notified to me that the days upon which the shops in
their respective districts shall be closed, pursuant to the
provisions of “The Shops and Shop-assistants Act, 1894,”
are the days set opposite their respective names in the second
column of the said Schedule: Now, therefore, in exercise
of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by the said
Act, I, William Pember Reeves, Minister of Labour, do
hereby appoint that the said respective days shall be the days
upon which all shops within the said respective districts shall
be closed.

SCHEDULE.

Gore .. .. .. Wednesday.
Hawksbury .. .. .. Wednesday.
Winton .. .. .. Wednesday.

Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of March, 1895.

W. P. REEVES,
Minister of Labour.

Bonus for the Manufacture of Potassium Cyanide.

Department of Industries and Commerce,
Wellington, 17th January, 1895.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of £1,000 will be
paid for the erection of a plant and the manufacture
in New Zealand of the first 200 tons of crude cyanide of
potassium from colonial produce.

1. The plant must be capable of producing at least 70
   tons of crude cyanide of potassium annually.

2. The crude cyanide of potassium so manufactured shall
   contain at least 70 per cent. of potassium cyanide.

3. The bonus will be paid in two equal instalments, the
   first instalment being payable on the production of the first-
   100 tons, and the second instalment on the production of
   the second 100 tons, of crude cyanide of potassium contain-
   ing the required percentage of potassium cyanide.

4. On the completion of the plant, notice in writing must
   be sent to the Minister of Industries and Commerce, Wel-
   ington, who will appoint an officer to inspect the same,
   together with the raw material then available from which
   the cyanide of potassium is proposed to be manufactured.

5. The officer so appointed shall from time to time inspect
   the process of manufacture, in order that he may satisfy
   himself that the whole of the cyanide of potassium is being
   manufactured from material of New Zealand production;
   and before any bonus is paid such officer will be required
   to certify that he is satisfied the crude cyanide of potassium
   is the product of New Zealand material only, and that it
   contains the required percentage of potassium cyanide.

6. The bonus must be claimed for the first 100 tons on or
   before the 31st March, 1897, and for the second 100 tons on
   or before the 30th September, 1898.

J. G. WARD.