766
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 34

The following shall be the basis of the test:—
The committee shall supply a sufficient and equal quantity of green hemp to each machine or process as a test.
The committee shall take into consideration—
The time occupied by each machine or process in the operation;
The cost of labour and time required after the fibre has left the machine or process before it is ready for baling;
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.

Results of Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 14th May, 1896.

THE following notices of results of elections of members of Road Boards have been received at this office, and are published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Mangawai Road District, County of Otamatea:
Thomas Miller.
John Sarah.

Ahuroa Road District, County of Rodney:
Adam Davie Martin.
Alfred Woodcock, jun.

Kaurihohore Road District, County of Whangarei:
Robert Forsyth.
John R. McInnes.

North Albertland Road District, County of Rodney:
Charles Bishop.
William Bleckley Farrand.

Matakana West Road District, County of Rodney:
Samuel Croker.
Thomas Felix Ashton.

Tamaki West Road District, County of Eden:
Thomas Atkinson.
Frederic William Brookfield.

Mount Wellington Road District, County of Eden:
Thomas Morrin.
Adam Kay.

Karaka Road District, County of Manukau:
Frederick Duckering.
Archibald Jamieson.

Maraetai Road District, County of Manukau:
William Duder.
Joseph Jacobs.

Hunua Road District, County of Manukau:
James B. L. Cowan.
Thomas Stewart.

Wairoa Road District, County of Manukau:
Joseph Hoye.
Patrick Maguire.

East Tamaki Road District, County of Manukau:
Alfred R. Harris.
Thomas Speechlay.

Papatoitoi Road District, County of Manukau:
Christopher Bailey.
James Bell.

Howick Township Road District, County of Manukau:
John Burrow.
Walter Langdon.

Pakuranga Road District, County of Manukau:
Thomas R. Gill.
Robert Millen.

Opaheke Road District, County of Manukau:
Ernest Wagner.
Michael Shaughnessey.

Maungatawhiri Road District, County of Manukau:
Samuel S. Smith.
John Potter.

Tauranga Road District, County of Manukau:
Francis Dibble.
John Granger.

Opaheke North Road District, County of Manukau:
James Black.
Frederick McClymont.

Waitoa Road District, County of Piako:
Alexander Aitken.
Charles Cribb.

Kirikiriroa Road District, County of Waikato:
Walter Chitty.

Tamahere Road District, County of Waikato:
Edward Rhodes.
Thomas E. Dodd.

Cambridge Road District, County of Waikato:
James Taylor.
Cornelius Day.

Huntly Road District, County of Waikato:
Frank Hubbard.
Lewis B. Harris.

Taotaoroa Road District, County of Piako.
Charles C. Buckland.

Pukekura Road District, County of Waipa.
Edward Allen.
Michael Dillon.

Whaingaroa Road District, County of Raglan:
John Moon.
James A. La Trobe.

Katikati Road District, County of Tauranga:
Robert Blakeney.
Fritz S. Hoeing.
James Lockington.
John Wilson.

Oero Road District, County of Patangata:
James Nelson Williams.
Gordon Harding Saxby.

Tamumu Road District, County of Patangata:
John Monckton Brown.
Alexander McHardy, sen.

Kumeroa Road District, County of Waipawa:
Patrick Henry Lynch.
Walter Martin.

Mauriceville Road District, County of Wairarapa North:
Thomas A. Weston.
Christopher Tait.
James Francis Heckler.

Masterton Road District, County of Wairarapa North:
Walter Harris.
William James Welch.