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Wateproof carriage·aprona, as textiles made up, 25 per cent.
Wateproof clotbing, as apparel, 25 per cent.
Wateproof covers for cameras, as photograpbic camcraa, free.
Wateproof dressiog, as n.o.e., free.
Wateproof material, to be free only when having in it a coating of
indiarubber.
Wate-wells, as stationery n.o.e., 20 per cent.
Waxed paper for cigarettes, as wrapping·papcr, other kinds, 5s. per
cwt.
Wax spills, as candles, 2d. per 1b.
Wax tapers, as stationery n.o.e., 20 per cent.
Wealemeftna, or gold chartomctor, as jewellery, 20 per cent.
Weatberboard brushes, as artificers' tools, free.
Webbing, elastic, staymakei's', as a. & m.s., free.
Webbing, as minor articles for making up apparel, free.
Wedgea, steel, as hardware, 20 per cent.
Weights for weigbiog-macbines, as weigbiog-macbines, 20 per cent.
Weigbiog-macbines, dairy, 2-beam and upwarda, as macbinery for
dairying purposes, 5 per cent.
Wcatingbouae brakcs, as parts of locomotivc, free.
Whalebonc, as minor articles for making up apparel, free.
Wbea.t-mixers, as macbincry n.o.e., 20 per cent.
Wbeel-plates, as artificers' tools, free.
Wbip-sockets, as hardware, 20 per cent.
Wbite sbaving (glazing-cJay), as n.o.e., free.
Wbitewasb brushes, as artificers' tools, free.
" Willesden " canvas paper, as n.o.e., free.
Window-glass, bcnt, common, as glass, window, &c., 2s. per 100ft.
Windows for cburches, as glass, coloured or o.k., 20 per cent.
Windows, stained glass, as glass, coloured, 20 per cent.
Winc, c0ca ("Armbrech't"), as proprietary medicines, 40 per cent.
Wine ("Mariani"), as proprietary medicines, 40 per cent.
Wine, unfermcnted, without spirit, as syrups, 25 per cent.
Wing-disc fan, or exbauster, as macbinery n.o.e., 20 per cent.
Winnoving or seed-dressing and grail-cleaniog macbiues, driven
by band·power, as macbinery for agrieultnral purposes, 5 per cent.
Wire, bottling, as n.o.e., free.

Oommissioner's Order No. 541.}

Bous for Dcstruction of Rabbits.—Notice No. 436.

Departrnent of Agriculture (Lire-stock Brancb),
Wellington, N.Z., 14th December, 1895.
A BONUS of £1,000 is offered for a practical scheme for
the destrnction of rabbita.
The following are the conditions:—

1. All applications for the bonus must be sent addreased
   to the Bon. the Minister for Agriculture, Wellington, New
   Zealand, and must reach him not later than 31st May, 1896.
   Each application must be accompaniod by a full description
   of the means proposed to be adoptcd.
2. The Government shall appoint a committee of three or
   more experts, to whom all applications shall be submitted.
   Sueh committee shall, after perusal, state what schemea
   thcy deern worrhy of further conside:ation, and are satisficd
   n1ay be used with absolute safety.
   On completion of the committee's prelin1inary investiga-tions each applicaut will be noti1ied of the decision arrived
   at, and whether or not his individual scheme will be further
   inquired into.
   The committee may afte:wards iuspect the whole or any
   of the scbemes at any place or places within the eolony, or
   n1ay direct that the whole or any of them be submitted for
   tria1·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 applicaut (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 excecding two years.
4. Each applicaut on expiry of the period named shall
   submit a detailed and accurate statement of the actual
   eost incurred in testing his scheme.
   On the expiry of the period named the committee shall as
   soou as couvenieut thereaftcr (should they deern it neccs-sary) make a personal iuspection of each applicaut's allot-ment, and shall take into consideratio11—
5. The actual cost incurred by each applicaut 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 sckemes which they have
   exarnined or tested, and shall state—
7. The scheme which they consider on the whole the
   most practical, efficient, and economic; and if they consider
   sueb scheme worth,y of the bonus.
8. Whether, in the event of no one scheme being entitlcd
   to the whole bonus, they deern any one worth,y of a part,
   and, if so, how much.

Wire, eoppcr, insulatcd, as eoppcr wire, free.
Wire, galvanised eoppcr, for sofa- and chair-springs, as eoppcr wire, free.
Wire, gold- and silver-beaded, and galcrie, as a. & m.s., free.
Wireinc socks, as eork soles, free.
Wire, pipping, as minor articles for making up apparel, free.
Wire, rihbon, as minor articles for making up apparel, free.
Wire-rope clothes-lines, galvanised, as iron and steel eordage, free.
Wire staples, matlress, as hardware, 20 per cent.
Wire-wove wate:proof roofing, as n.o.e., free.
Wizeands, as sausage-skins, 3d. the 1b.
Wolscley's shecp-shearing machine, as agrieulturnl macbinery, 5 per cent.
W ood and fane y oil-baize, as drapery, n.o.e., 20 per cent.
W ood, pressecl in imitation of baskctwork, for carriages, as a. & m.s., free.
W oodcn moulds for manufaeture of b osicry, as w oodenware, 20 per cent.
W ooden rollers for window-blinds, as furniture, 25 per cent.
W ool, earbonised, as druggists' sundries, 20 per cent.
W oollcn clotbing (Dr. J aegcr's), as apparel, 25 per cent.
W oollcn yarns, suitable only for making carpets, as a. & m.s., free.
W ool mops, as ship-chandlery, free.
W ool-presses, as macbinery for agrieulturnl purposes, 5 per cent.
W ool webbing, for making ladics' belts, as haberdashery n.o.e., 20 per cent.

YARN, mohair worsted, as yarn n.o.e., 20 per cent.
Yarns, cottou, jute, linen, or woolleu, suitable only for making carpets, as a. & m.s., free.
Yarns, single, mohair, as a. & m.s., free.

Zinc collar-pads, as saddlery, 20 per cent.
Zinco·eopyist, as stationery n.o.e., 20 per cent.
"Zynkara," as ebcnieals n.o.e., 20 per cent.
Zueeato's typograph, as stationery n.o.e., 20 per cent.
Znlu water, as perfun1cd spirita, £1 10s. per gal.

W. T. GLASGOW,
Secretary and Inapecto1·.

The committee has power to withhold all awa1·ds if they thin k none of the sckemes subm itted of sufficient import-ance to merit a bonus.
A sum not excecding 6d. per acrc may be paid to each eompetitor whose scheme is accepted for test by the com-mittee, and who, in the opinion of the committee, bas done work descrving of recognitio11.
J O H N M c K E N Z I E,
Minister for Agriculture.

Bouscs for Encouragement of New Zealaucl Hemp (Phor-mium tenax) Iudnstry.—Notice No. 430.

Departrnent of Agriculture,
Wellington, 1st November, 1895.
Bons No. 1.

A BONUS of £1,750 is offered for a machine or process for dressiug New Zealaud bemp (Phor1nium tenax) which shall be an improvement on the machines or processes now in use, and which shall, after trial, be found to matc-rially reduce the cost of production, improve the product, or iue:rease the quantity of dresscd fibre.
The following arc the conditions:—

1. All applications for the bonus must be sent addreased to the Bon. the Minister for Agriculture, Wellington, and m ust reach him not later than the 31st March, 1897. Each application must be accompaniod by a description of the m acbiue or process, particularly stat ing i m provements on prcscnt machines or processes, and also the cost at which the machine or process can be sup plied.
2. The applicauts must be prepared to submit their machines or processes to examiuation 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 deern worth,y of conside:ation, and may in-spect the same at any place within the eolony; and, having so inspected the whole or any of them, may direct that the wholc 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 eolony, sup plying the necessary shaf'ting, m otivc·power, and buildings, to be defrayed by the Government. If any machine sent from beyond the eolony is awardcd the bonus or part thereof, then the cost of br iuging such machine shall be borne by the Government.
   The following shall be the basis of the test:—