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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 10

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 Destruction of Rabbits.—Notice No. 436.

Department of Agriculture (Live-stock Branch),
Wellington, N.Z., 14th December, 1895.

A BONUS of £1,000 is offered for a practical scheme for the destruction of rabbits.
The following are the conditions:—

1. All applications for the bonus must be sent addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Agriculture, Wellington, New Zealand, and must reach him not later than 31st May, 1896. Each application must be accompanied by a full description of the means proposed to be adopted.
2. 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 schemes they deem worthy of further consideration, and are satisfied may be used with absolute safety.
   On completion of the committee’s preliminary investigations each applicant will be notified of the decision arrived at, and whether or not his individual scheme will be further inquired into.
   The committee may afterwards inspect the whole or any of the schemes at any place or places within the colony, or may direct that the whole or any of them be submitted for trial at such time and place as they may think fit.
   The following shall be a basis of the trial:—
3. A suitable piece of rabbit-infested land shall be allowed to each applicant (of whose scheme the committee have approved), and on which he will have full power to carry out a trial of his scheme for a period not exceeding two years.
4. Each applicant on expiry of the period named shall submit a detailed and accurate statement of the actual cost incurred in testing his scheme.
   On the expiry of the period named the committee shall as soon as convenient thereafter (should they deem it necessary) make a personal inspection of each applicant’s allotment, and shall take into consideration—
5. The actual cost incurred by each applicant in testing his scheme for the period above mentioned.
6. The result of the work done on each allotment.
   On completion of the tests the committee shall furnish a report to the Minister on all the schemes which they have examined or tested, and shall state—
7. The scheme which they consider on the whole the most practical, efficient, and economic; and if they consider such scheme worthy of the bonus.
8. Whether, in the event of no one scheme being entitled to the whole bonus, they deem any one worthy of a part, and, if so, how much.
   The committee has power to withhold all awards if they think none of the schemes submitted of sufficient importance to merit a bonus.
   A sum not exceeding 6d. per acre may be paid to each competitor whose scheme is accepted for test by the committee, and who, in the opinion of the committee, has done work deserving of recognition.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister for Agriculture.

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 containing 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, Wellington, 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.

Settlement of Claim for Compensation under “The Mining Act, 1891.”

Mines Department,
Wellington, 24th January, 1896.

IN pursuance of the provisions of section 153 of “The Mining Act, 1891,” it is hereby notified that the claim for compensation set forth in the Schedule hereto in respect to the Proclamation issued under the hand of His Excellency the Governor, and the Public Seal of the Colony, on the 19th day of March, 1895, declaring the Totara River and Donnelly’s Creek, with their tributaries, in the Provincial District of Westland, watercourses into which tailings, &c., may be discharged, has been settled by agreement, as provided by the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

TOTARA RIVER AND DONNELLY’S CREEK.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Commissioner’s Decisions under Tariff Acts.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 11th February, 1896.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Hon. the Commissioner of Trade and Customs has decided to interpret the Customs and Excise Duties Acts in relation to the under-mentioned articles as follows:—

NOTE.—“Not otherwise enumerated” appears as n.o.e.; “other kinds” as o.k.; “articles and materials suited only for, and to be used solely in, the fabrication of goods in the colony” as a. & m.s. Articles marked thus * are revised decisions.

W. T. GLASGOW,
Secretary and Inspector.
Commissioner’s Order No. 537.]

Report by Land Claims Commissioner of Otago.

JAMES PILLANS MAITLAND, a Commissioner duly appointed by virtue of the Ordinance No. 15, Session XI., of the Legislative Council of the Islands of New Zealand, to hear and decide claims to land by persons claiming title thereto from, through, or under the New Zealand Company, report that the claim of James Williamson, of East Taieri District, in the Land District of Otago, Farmer, was, on the 24th day of June, 1895, referred to the Land Claims Commissioner. I do now hereby decide that the said James Williamson is entitled to a Crown grant for Sections 58 and 78, Irregular Block, East Taieri District, containing 100 acres 3 roods 37 perches.

Dated at Dunedin, this 11th day of January, 1896.

J. P. MAITLAND,
Commissioner.