JUNE 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 959

As the said areas are delineated upon the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited in the District Office of the Lands and Survey Department at Auckland, in the Auckland Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.

Dated this 9th day of May, 1896.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Approval of By-laws as made by the Manganui Road Board.

PURSUANT to the authority contained in the 130th section of "The Public Works Act, 1894," I, John McKenzie, Minister of Lands, do hereby approve of the within-written by-law, made by the Manganui Road Board, of the Manganui Road District.

Given under my hand, this fifteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

MANGANUI ROAD BOARD.

NOTICE is hereby given that it be a special order that, in pursuance and in exercise of the powers conferred by section 130 of "The Public Works Act, 1894," the inhabitants of the Manganui Road District, by the Manganui Road Board, do, in respect of all metalled or gravelled roads, and of all metalled or gravelled parts of roads, under the care, control, and management of the said Board, hereby make the following by-laws:—

1. No person shall, from the 1st day of May to the 30th of September, inclusive, in any year, use any metalled or gravelled district road within the Manganui Road District by the traction thereon by means of bullocks of any vehicle, unless such vehicle shall be licensed for the year in which it shall be so used in manner hereinafter appearing. The annual fee payable in respect of every such vehicle shall, if the tire of any wheel is not less than 8in., be 10s., and shall otherwise be £25. The Clerk to the Manganui Road Board shall, upon application of the owner of any such vehicle, and upon payment of the fee above specified, issue to such owner a license, and also a docket marked with the year of issue, and marked with the letter "A" if the fee be 10s., and with the letter "B" if the fee be £25. The owner shall affix such docket to the near side of his vehicle in a conspicuous place, and shall keep the same so affixed until the end of the month of September following. If any duly-licensed vehicle be destroyed or unfit for use, the owner may, with the previous consent in writing of the said Clerk, detach such docket and affix it to another vehicle of the like description, which shall thereafter be deemed the licensed vehicle. No person shall deface or tamper with any such docket, or, except as aforesaid, remove the same, during the months aforesaid of the year in which it shall have been issued.

2. No person shall use any metalled or gravelled district road in the Manganui Road District by the traction thereon of a junker (being a two-wheeled vehicle whereon logs or unsawn timber is usually carried) unless the tire of each wheel thereof shall be at least 12in. in width.

3. No person shall use any metalled or gravelled district road in the Manganui Road District by the traction thereon of a wagon carrying logs or unsawn timber unless the tire of each wheel thereof shall be at least 6in. in width.

4. No person shall use any metalled or gravelled district road in the Manganui Road District by the traction thereon of a wagon carrying sawn timber, and commonly used for such purposes, unless the tire of each wheel thereof shall be at least 5in. in width.

5. No person shall use any metalled or gravelled district road in the Manganui Road District by the traction thereon of any dray carrying timber, iron, stones, earth, or other heavy materials, unless the tire of each wheel thereof shall be at least 4in. in width if the dray is drawn by not more than two horses or four bullocks, and 5in. in width if drawn by more than two horses or four bullocks.

6. No person shall use any metalled or gravelled district road in the Manganui Road District by the traction thereon of any light dray carrying produce or stores such as are usually carried by light drays used by farmers unless the tire of each wheel thereof shall be at least 2½in. in width if the dray is drawn by one horse, and 3in. if drawn by more than one horse.

7. No person shall use any metalled or gravelled district road in the Manganui Road District by the traction thereon of any light four-wheeled vehicles with springs carrying milk, stores, or produce unless the tire of each wheel thereof shall be at least 1½in. in width if drawn by not more than two horses, and 2in. if drawn by more than two horses.

8. No person shall use any metalled or gravelled district road in the Manganui Road District by the traction thereon of any light two-wheeled vehicle with springs, carrying milk, stores, or produce, unless the tire of each wheel thereof shall

be at least 1½in. in width if drawn by not more than one horse, and 2in. if drawn by more than one horse.

9. If any person shall commit a breach of any of the foregoing by-laws he shall be liable upon conviction for such breach to a penalty of not exceeding £5.

Which shall come into force and have effect on the twenty-first day after the date of the issue of the number of the New Zealand Gazette containing the notification of the Minister of Lands' or the Minister for Public Works' approval of the same.

J. MACKAY,
Chairman.

Tenders.

Public Works Office,
Wellington, 10th June, 1896.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders for the supply and delivery of joiner's materials for the Government Printing Office Extension is published for general information.

W. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

Accepted.

Waddell, McLeod, and Weir, Wellington .. 1,199 13 8

Declined.

Stewart and Co., Wellington .. 1,278 15 4

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.

Bonuses for Encouragement of New Zealand Hemp (Phor- mium tenax) Industry.—Notice No. 430.

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

Bonus No. 1.

A BONUS of £1,750 is offered for a machine or process for dressing New Zealand hemp (Phormium tenax) which shall be an improvement on the machines or processes now in use, and which shall, after trial, be found to materially reduce the cost of production, improve the product, or increase the quantity of dressed fibre.

The following are the conditions:—

1. All applications for the bonus must be sent addressed to the Hon. the Minister for Agriculture, Wellington, and must reach him not later than the 31st March, 1897. Each application must be accompanied by a description of the machine or process, particularly stating improvements on present machines or processes, and also the cost at which the machine or process can be supplied.

2. The applicants must be prepared to submit their machines or processes to examination at such time and place as the Government may direct.