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the crude cyanide of potassium
is the product of New Zealnd material only, and that it
contains the required percentage of potassium cyanide.
6. The bonus must be claimed for the first 100 ton on or
before the 31st March, 1897, and for the second 100 ton on
or before the 30th September, 1898.

J. G. WARD.

Bone for Destruciton of Rabbits.—Notice No. 436.

Department of Agriculture (Liverstock Brnch),
Wellington, N.Z., 14th December, 1895.

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

1. All applicaions for the bonus must be sent addresed
   to the Hn. the Minister for Agriculture, Wellington, New
   Zealand, and must reach him not later than 31st May, 1896.
   Each application must be accompaned by a full description
   of the means proposed to be adoped.

2. The Government shall appoint a committee of three or
   more experts, to whom all applicaions shall be submitted.
   Suah committee shall, after perusal, state what sames
   deam-worthy of further consideraion, and are satisied
   my be used with absolute safety.
   On completion of the committee's prelimary investiga
   tions each applican will be notied of the decision arrived
   at, and whether or not his individual scheme will be further
   inquired into.
   The committee may afteards inspe the whole or any
   of the sames at any place or places within the coln, or
   my direct that the whole or any of them be submitted for
   tral at such time and place as they may think fit.
   The following shall be a basis of the trial:—

3. A suitable piece of rabbitinfested land shall be allowed
   to each applican (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 exceding two years.

4. Each applican on expiry of the period named shall
   submit a detailed and accurate statement of the actual
   ost incurred in testing his scheme.
   On the expiry of the period named the committee shall as
   soo as convenien thereafer (should they de it nees
   cary) make a personal inspeion of each applican's allot
   ment, and shall take into consideraion—

5. The actual cost incurred by each applican in test
   ing 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 sames which they have
   examed or tested, and shall state—

7. The scheme which they consider on the whole the
   most practical, efcient, and economic; and if they consider
   uch scheme wohy of the bonus.

8. Whether, in the event of no one scheme being entled
   to the whole bonus, they deem any one wohy of a part,
   and, if so, how much.
   The committee has power to withhold all awars if they
   hink none of the sames submitted of suficient impor
   tance to merit a bonus.
   A sum not exceding 6d. per ac may be paid to each
   ompetitor whose scheme is acceped for test by the com
   mittee, and who, in the opinion of the committee, has done
   work deservng of recognion.

   JOHn McKENZIE,
   Minister for Agriculture.

Bone for Encouragement of New Zealnd Hemp (Phor
mium tenax) Indusry.—Notice No. 430.

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

Bounus No. 1.

A BONUS of £1,750 is offered for a machine or process
for dressng New Zealnd Hemp (Phormium tenax)
which shall be an improvement on the machines or processes
now in use, and which shall, after trial, be found to ma
terially reduce the cost of production, improve the product, or
incrase the quantity of dresed fibre.
The following are the conditions:—

1. All applicaions for the bonus must be sent addresed
   to the Hn. the Minister for Agriculture, Wellington, and
   mus reach him not later than the 31st March, 1897. Each
   application must be accompaned by a description of the
   macine or process, particularly stang improvemen on
   prsen machines or processes, and also the cost at which
   the macine or process can be suplied.

2. The applicans must be prepared to submit their
   machines or processes to examinaion 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 applicaions shall be submitted.
   Suah committee shall, after perusal, state what machines or
   processes they deem wohy of consideraion, and may in
   spe the same at any place within the coln; and, having
   so inspected the whole or any of them, may direct that the
   whe 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 coln, suplying the necessary
   shafing, moivepower, and buildings, to be defrayed by the
   Government. If any machine sent from beyond the coln
   is awared the bonus or part thereof, then the cost of
   brnging such machine shall be borne by the Government.
   The following shall be the basis of the test:—
   The committee shall supply a suficient and equal quan
   tity of green hemo to each machine or process as a test.
   The committee shall take into consideraion—
   The time occuped by each machine or process in the
   operation;
   The cost of labor and time required after the fibre has
   left the machine or process before it is ready for
   baling;
   The percentage of dresed fibre and tow produced by
   each machine or process;
   The cost of producng 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
   hey have examed or tested, and shall state,—
   (1.) The machine or process which they consider on the
   whe the most efcient and economic.
   (2.) Whether they consider that any machine or process
   tesed so materially redues the cost of produc
   ion, or improves the product, as to be wohy of
   the whole bonus or of a part only.
   (3.) Whether, in the event of no one machine or process
   being entled to the whole bonus, they de any
   macine or process wohy of a part of the bonus,
   and, if so, how much.

   Bounus No. 2.

A bonus of £250 is offered for a process of utilising the
waste products of the hemo.
The first three conditions of Bounus No. 1 to apply to this
aslo.
The committee shall supply a suficient 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 suficient importance to warran 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.

Bone for the Produciton of Quicksilv.

Mins Office, 
Wellington, 19th September, 1895.

N OTICE is here by given that a bonus of fourpence
(4d.) per pond will be paid on the production of the
first one hundred thousand pounds weight (100,0001b.) of
god marketable retorted quicksilver, free from all impuri
ies, from any mine in New Zealnd, on the following con
ditions, that is to say:—

1. That at least onethird of the quantity is produced on
   or before the 31st March, 1897, and the remaining two
   hirds on or before the 31st March, 1899.

2. No bonus will be payabe until the whole of the one
   hundred thousand pounds (100,0001b.) of quicksilver has
   ben produced as stpulated to the satisfaion of an ofcer
   to be appoin ed by the Minister of Mins, and on whose
   c certificate alone the bonus will be paid.

3. In the event of more than one person producng the
   required quantiies of quicksilver before the dates named,
   inqu ir will be made by the ofcer above referred to, when,
   if it is found that each applican is equall entled to a
   bonus, the amount will be divied in propori on to the
   quantiies produced by each applican, but in no case shall
   any bonus be paid until at least one hundred thousand
   pounds (100,0001b.) of quicksilver has been produced in the
   aggregate.

   A. J. CADMIN,
   Minister of Mins.