960
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47

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 deem worthy of consideration, and may inspect the same at any place within the colony; and, having so inspected the whole or any of them, may direct that the whole 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 colony, supplying the necessary shafting, motive-power, and buildings, to be defrayed by the Government. If any machine sent from beyond the colony is awarded the bonus or part thereof, then the cost of bringing such machine shall be borne by the Government.

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.

Regulation under “The Deeds Registration Act, 1868.”

WHEREAS by “The Deeds Registration Act, 1868,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Registrar-General of Land, with the approval of the Governor in Council, to make regulations as in the said Act mentioned, and generally for regulating the practice and procedure of the register offices under the said Act: Now, therefore, I, the undersigned, George Boutflower Davy, Registrar-General of Land, in exercise of the power aforesaid, and with the approval of the Governor in Council, do hereby make and publish the regulation following, that is to say:—

The provisions of section forty-three of “The Deeds Registration Act, 1868,” shall not apply to any certificate heretofore granted or hereafter to be granted by the Native Land Court under the provisions of section sixty-seven of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” in respect of moneys due to the Crown or to the Surveyor-General on behalf of the Crown.

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

GEO. B. DAVY,
Registrar-General of Land.

Approved in Council, 15th June, 1896.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Government Observatory.

METEOROLOGICAL Observations, Wellington, for the month of May, 1896. Altitude above the sea, 140ft. Observations taken at 9.30 a.m.

• Means.
  † Same month previous years.

NOTE.—Fine up to 4th, then showery to 7th; 1·15in. recorded on 8th, the maximum fall; heavy showers on night of 14th, but otherwise generally fine for remainder of month, with only light rain at times: prevailing winds from N.W., and strong on four days: fog on 14th. Maximum temperature in shade, 65°; minimum, 38°; mean temperature of dew-point, 45°. Mean humidity, 74. Earthquake on 29th, at 6.54 p.m., slight.

R. B. GORE, Observer.