1788
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 83

(true), and Plank Point bearing N. 41° 35' W. (true). Approximate position—latitude, 33° 37' 20" S.; longitude, 137° 34' 20" E.

Further notice will be given as to the exact date of the exhibition of the light.

This notice affects Admiralty Charts Nos. 404 and 2389B.

THOS. N. STEPHENS,
President Marine Board.

Marine Board, Port Adelaide, 17th October, 1895.

Notice of the Laying-off of Roads through Native Lands in the Auckland Land District.

NOTICE is hereby given, by direction of His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, under the authority of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” that the roads described in the Schedule hereto were, in October, 1892, duly taken and laid off through the lands specified in the said Schedule, under the authority of the Governor of the said colony, by warrant dated the 27th November, 1891, and by the Surveyor-General’s warrant dated the 15th December, 1891.

SCHEDULE.

ROADS THROUGH NATIVE LANDS.

All that parcel of land in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 17 acres 1 rood, more or less, situate in Maketu and Te Tumu Survey Districts, and being a road 100 links wide traversing the Otairoa No. 3 Block, No. 1024; the Otairoa No. 5 Block, No. 1023; the Otairoa No. 8 Block, No. 5760; the Waharoa Block, No. 5790; the Tapati No. 9 Block, No. 5969; Te Tawhao-o-Tomakoro Block, No. 5867; Te Waharoa No. 2 Block, No. 2155; Te Waharoa No. 3 Block, No. 2154; Te Tahura No. 2 Block, No. 5866; Te Rahui No. 3 Block, No. 4115; the Mokorou Block, No. 3831; the Mokorou No. 1 Block, No. 3968; the Ohinekopiri No. 3 Block, No. 3969c; the Ohinekopiri No. 2 Block, No. 3969B; the Ohinekopiri No. 1 Block, No. 3969A; the Ohineahuru No. 4 Block, No. 4357; a piece of Native land unadjudicated upon; the Ohineahuru No. 5 Block, No. 4132; the Ohineahuru Block, No. 1102; the Ohineahuru Block No. 9, No. 4431; the Ohineahuru Block No. 7, No. 4305; another piece of Native land unadjudicated upon; the Ohineahuru No. 10 Block, No. 6305; the Ohineahuru No. 3 Block, No. 3855; the Ohineahuru No. 2 Block, No. 3967; another piece of Native land unadjudicated upon; the Okarito Block, No. 5382; the Rau-o-te-Huia Block, No. 804B; and the Rau-o-te-Huia Block, No. 804c, respectively, for a total distance of 17234 links, more or less, to the south-western boundary of Rau-o-te-Huia 804B Block: as the same is delineated on map No. 6345, deposited in the District Lands and Survey Office, at Auckland, in the Auckland Land District, and thereon coloured pink and yellow.

Dated this 6th day of October, 1895.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 9th November, 1895.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders for the Ruatoki Native School contract is published for general information.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister for Public Works.

Accepted.

E. J. Robinson, Tauranga .. .. .. 668 0 0

Declined.

W. G. Smith, Auckland .. .. .. 679 0 2
W. F. Moody, Whakatane .. .. .. 679 5 0
D. T. Forsyth, Auckland .. .. .. 714 1 1

Bonuses for Encouragement of New Zealand Hemp (Phormium 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 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 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 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 for Agriculture.

Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.

Mines Office,
Wellington, 19th September, 1895.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of fourpence (4d.) per pound will be paid on the production of the first one hundred thousand pounds weight (100,000lb.) of good marketable retorted quicksilver, free from all impurities, from any mine in New Zealand, on the following conditions, that is to say:—

1. That at least one-third of the quantity is produced on or before the 31st March, 1897, and the remaining two-thirds on or before the 31st March, 1899.

2. No bonus will be payable until the whole of the one hundred thousand pounds (100,000lb.) of quicksilver has been produced as stipulated to the satisfaction of an officer to be appointed by the Minister of Mines, and on whose certificate alone the bonus will be paid.

3. In the event of more than one person producing the required quantities of quicksilver before the dates named, inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when, if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus, the amount will be divided in proportion to the quantities produced by each applicant, but in no case shall