APRIL 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 691

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 any bonus be paid until at least one hundred thousand pounds (100,000lb.) of quicksilver has been produced in the aggregate.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Form of Statement prescribed under “The Lunatics Act Amendment Act, 1895.”

UNDER and by virtue of the power and authority conferred on the Public Trustee by section 7 of “The Lunatics Act Amendment Act, 1895,” and any other power and authority in this behalf, the Public Trustee doth hereby prescribe that the statement to be rendered, pursuant to the said section, to him by every person and body corporate being committee of the lunatic’s estate shall, as near as the circumstances of each estate will allow, be in the form or to the effect set forth in the parts numbered 1 to 5, both inclusive, in the Schedule hereto, and shall be for the period of the calendar year ending the 31st day of December immediately preceding the rendering of such statement, commencing with the year or portion of a year in which the said lunatic became subject to the provisions of “The Lunatics Act, 1882,” and the Acts amending the same, and shall be rendered thereafter annually during all such period as the lunatic in respect of whose estate the said statement is rendered shall remain subject to and under the said Lunatics Acts as aforesaid. And in the case of any committee being appointed so late in any year as not to reasonably be able fully to render such statement for that year, then and in such case it shall be sufficient if the committee render such particulars only as the Public Trustee may require such committee to give, and render the full statement at the end of the first complete year ending as aforesaid.

And the Public Trustee doth further prescribe that every such statement shall be forwarded to the Public Trustee at his office in the City of Wellington, in the Colony of New Zealand, so as to be received by him not later than the 31st day of January of the year succeeding that for which the said statement is or ought to be rendered.

And the Public Trustee doth further prescribe that the statutory declaration which is required from each committee in verification of the statement to be so furnished by him as aforesaid shall be in the form or to the effect set forth in Part 6 of the Schedule hereunder appearing. If more than one person be appointed committee, it shall be sufficient if any one make the declaration, and in the case of a company if its managing officer make it.

SCHEDULE.

STATEMENT of PROPERTY belonging to the Estate of , a Lunatic, the Liabilities attaching thereto, the Administration thereof, and the Condition of the Same, rendered by , the Committee of the Estate of the said Lunatic, for the Year or the Part of the Year ending the 31st day of December, 18 .

Part 1.

SCHEDULE of the property which has come into the hands, possession, or power of the said committee, or which belonged to the lunatic at the time of the appointment of the said committee, or which remained at the time of the rendering of the last-preceding statement.

[This statement must show each class of property and its estimated value separately—e.g., cash and where kept, fixed-deposit receipts, stock-in-trade, household effects, scrips, debentures, freeholds, leaseholds (sufficiently describing each parcel of land), mortgages (rate of interest receivable), annuities, &c., date of payment of principal sums secured, the class of stock-in-trade, the company in which scrip or debentures may be held, and so on according to the nature of each asset, so that the appropriation and any realisation thereof can be traced.]

Part 2.

Schedule of the property of , a lunatic, which, not consisting of cash, has been realised, converted, or exchanged by the committee of the estate of the said lunatic during the like period as mentioned in Part 1.

[This statement must show in detail so much of the property as is set out in Part 1, and has been changed in its nature, realised, or otherwise dealt with during the period for which the statement is to be furnished, showing against each item, in double columns, first the gross value received, and next the necessary expenses and costs attending each or any dealing.]

Part 3.

Schedule of the liabilities, present, future, and contingent, of , a lunatic, so far as known at the time of rendering the present statement by , the committee of the estate of the said lunatic, during the like period as mentioned in Part 1.

[This statement must show in detail not only the ordinary liabilities, if any, but also any bills payable, liabilities as surety, guarantor or otherwise, and the amounts, when practicable.]

Part 4.

Schedule of the dealings of the committee of the estate of the said lunatic with the property and estate, showing the totals received from each class or item of property, whether from realisation, rents, or income, and also the payments disbursed, allowances, &c., made thereout during the like period as mentioned in Part 1.

[This statement must show in sufficient detail each total on either side of the account, so as to enable the Public Trustee to check the same with the other parts of this statement, and to be able to reconcile it with earlier and later statements, and is to be a debtor-and-creditor statement of the accounts of the estate for the period therein to be shown.]

Part 5.

Schedule giving such particulars of the condition of the property of the said lunatic at the time of rendering the said statement, and other information and explanations respecting the same or any part or parts thereof, as will elucidate the preceding parts or show the necessity for any past or prospective expenditure, such, for instance, as painting, fencing, repairs, calls made or expected, and suchlike.

Part 6.

In the matter of “The Lunatics Amendment Act, 1895”; and in the matter of , a lunatic.

I, , of , in the Colony of New Zealand, , do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows:—

1. That I am the lawfully-appointed committee of the estate of , a lunatic.