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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 25

Member of Licensing Committee appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 8th April, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

JOHN WARD

to be a member of the Licensing Committee for the District of Grey, vice W. Urquhart, resigned.

T. THOMPSON.

Rules of Whangarei Acclimatisation Society.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 2nd April, 1896.

IT is hereby notified that a copy of the rules of the Whangarei Acclimatisation Society, duly signed, has been deposited in this office, and the said society is therefore deemed to be a duly-registered acclimatisation society under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880.”

W. C. WALKER,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Wairarapa North County Council.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th April, 1896.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Wairarapa North County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886.”

W. C. WALKER,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

WAIRARAPA NORTH COUNTY.

PROPOSAL to raise a Loan of £700 for widening and extending the Formation of the Maungatakato Road.

Result of Poll.

NUMBER of ratepayers on special roll, 8, representing 8 votes: Number of ratepayers who voted in favour of the proposal, 6, representing 6 votes; number of votes unrecorded, 2.

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

F. VON REDEN,
Chairman.

Masterton, 2nd November, 1895.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Manganui Road Board, County of Stratford.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th April, 1896.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Manganui Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1886.”

W. C. WALKER,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

MANGANUI ROAD BOARD.

RESULT of poll of ratepayers of the Standish and Gambia Streets Special Rating Area, taken on Monday, 30th March, 1896, upon the following proposal—To raise a loan of £175 under “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” for the purpose of forming and culverting Standish Street from the Beaconsfield Road as far as Gambia Street, and of forming Gambia Street from Standish Street to the Beaconsfield Road, and to gravel the above-mentioned streets as far as the money will go, commencing at the end of Standish Street next the Beaconsfield Road; to pay out of such loan the cost of raising it; to strike as security on this loan a special rate of 4d. in the pound over the following lands—namely, Sections 8, 9, 10, 11, Block VII.; 1, 2, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, Block VIII.; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, Block IX.; 1, 2, 4, 5, Block X.; 5, 6, 12, 13, Block XI.; 9, Block XII., Midhirst East:—

Number of ratepayers on special roll, 15; number of votes exercisable, 15: Number of votes recorded for the proposal, 8.

I therefore declare the proposal carried.

J. MACKAY,
Chairman.

Letters of Naturalisation issued.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 8th April, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue Letters of Naturalisation, under “The Aliens Act, 1880,” in favour of the under-mentioned person:—

W. C. WALKER,
Acting Colonial Secretary.

Volunteer Cadet Corps disbanded.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 2nd April, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the

Westport School Rifle Cadet Volunteers

being disbanded, as from the 29th June, 1895.

W. C. WALKER,
For Defence Minister.

Volunteer Corps disbanded.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 2nd April, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the disbandment of the

Brunnerton Rifle Volunteers

as from the 12th September, 1895.

The commissions held by the under-mentioned gentlemen in the above corps will therefore lapse in accordance with paragraph 62, Volunteer Regulations, 1895:—

DAVID ARMSTRONG, late Captain.

JOHN MILLAR LANGDON, late Lieutenant.

W. C. WALKER,
For Defence Minister.

Services of Volunteer Cadet Corps accepted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 2nd April, 1896.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept, under paragraph 264, Volunteer Regulations, 1895, the services of the

No. 2 Company, Wellington College Rifle Cadet Volunteers,

as from the 13th March, 1895.

W. C. WALKER,
For Defence Minister.

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.