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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 82

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Pohangina County Council.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 5th November, 1895.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of
the Pohangina County Council, is published in ac-
cordance with the provisions of "The Local Bodies' Loans
Act, 1886."

W. P. REEVES,
For the Colonial Secretary.

Pohangina County Council.

Following is the result of poll of ratepayers of the Coal
Creek Riding on proposal to borrow £300 for construction of
branch road from the Terrace Road to the Oroua River in
the Kiwitea County:—

Ratepayers on roll, 24, representing 35 votes: Number of
ratepayers voting, 17; votes recorded for proposal, 27; votes
recorded against proposal, nil; ratepayers voting against
proposal, nil.

As a majority in number of the ratepayers voted in favour
of the proposal, and the number so voting are entitled to
more than one-half of the votes that can be exercised by the
whole number of ratepayers, I declare the proposal to be
carried.

Herbert Dickin,
Chairman.
Pohangina, 4th November, 1895.

Bonuses for Encouragement of New Zealand Hemp (Phor-
mium tenax) Industry.—Notice No. 430.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 1st November, 1895.

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 for Agriculture, Wellington, and
   must reach him not later than the 31st March, 1897. 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 for Agriculture.

Regulations for Entry of Mercantile Marine Officers into
Royal Navy.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 30th October, 1895.

THE following despatch and its enclosures, received from
the Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published
for general information.

J. G. WARD.

(Circular.)
Downing Street, 19th August, 1895.
Sir,—I have the honour to transmit to you, for communica-
tion to your Ministers, a copy of a letter from the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty enclosing copies of an
Order in Council and of regulations framed under its
authority for the entry of officers of the mercantile marine
on a supplementary list of lieutenants and sub-lieutenants
of the Royal navy.
I have, &c.,
J. Chamberlain.
The Officer administering the Government
of New Zealand.

Admiralty, 25th July, 1895.
Sir,—I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty to acquaint you, for the information of the
Secretary of State for the Colonies, that, the number of
executive officers of the navy being at present insufficient to
provide for the increased requirements of the fleet, my
Lords have obtained the sanction of Her Majesty in Council
for the entry of officers of the mercantile marine on a
supplementary list of lieutenants and sub-lieutenants, Royal
navy, so as to meet the pressure until the entry of cadets in
the navy provides for the larger list required for the future.
I am to enclose copies of the Order in Council, and of the
regulations framed under its authority, also forms of appli-
cation for entry. It will be seen that preference in entry
will be given to officers who have been in the Royal Naval
Reserve; and I am to request that you will move the
Secretary of State to cause these regulations to be com-
municated to the Governments of the colonies, with a view
to their promulgating them among any officers of the
colonial navies who have belonged to the Royal Naval
Reserve.
I am, &c.,
Evan Macgregor.
The Under-Secretary of State,
Colonial Office.

At the Court at Windsor, the 29th day of June, 1895.
Present:
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas there was this day read at the Board a memorial
from the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty, dated the 22nd of June, 1895, in the words fol-
lowing, viz.:—
"Whereas it is found necessary to employ officers now
belonging to the mercantile marine as sub-lieutenants and
lieutenants to meet the requirements of your Majesty's
navy until the supply of executive officers trained up from
their youth in the service shall be sufficient for the needs of
the fleet, such officers to be placed on a supplementary list
of your Majesty's navy: We beg leave to recommend that
your Majesty may be graciously pleased by your Order in
Council to sanction the following proposals, which have
received the concurrence of the Lords Commissioners of
your Majesty's Treasury:—
"One hundred officers of the mercantile marine may be
entered on a supplementary list of the navy—as sub-lieute-
nants, of or over twenty-two and under twenty-five years of
age; as lieutenants, of or over twenty-five and under thirty-
five years of age.
"The sub-lieutenants to be taken, as far as practicable,
from those Royal Naval Reserve midshipmen who have