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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 55

The warehouse known as
THE CITY BOND,
as appointed and described in Commissioner’s Order No. 515,
of the 29th April, 1895.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this twentieth
day of July, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-six.

R. J. SEDDON,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner’s Order No. 547.]

Approving and appointing a Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the powers in me for this
purpose vested by “The Customs Laws Consolidation
Act, 1882,” I, the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do
hereby approve and appoint the under-mentioned warehouse
to be a warehouse for the reception of goods under bond,
namely,—

Port of Lyttelton.

The cellar and first and second floors of the back por-
tion of a brick building, roofed with iron, situate at 154,
Worcester Street, on Lots 8 and 9, Section 718, to be
known as

THE CITY BOND.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this twentieth
day of July, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-six.

R. J. SEDDON,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner’s Order No. 548.]

Applications for Position of Inspecting Engineer.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 9th July, 1896.

WRITTEN applications, stating qualifications, and ac-
companied by testimonials, will be received at this
office up to Monday, the 17th of August next, for the
position of Inspecting Engineer to the Mines Department,
at a salary of £450 a year, and an allowance of 12s. 6d. a day
while absent from Wellington on the public service, to cover
all expenses excepting steamboat-, railway-, and coach-fares
and horse-hire, the cost of which will be paid by the depart-
ment.

The person to be appointed must be qualified to hold a
first-class certificate as a mine-manager under “The Mining
Act, 1891,” and the amendments thereto, and also under
“The Coal-mines Act, 1891.” He will also be required to
visit the mining centres throughout the colony as well as the
various coal-mines, and to prepare an annual report thereon
for the General Assembly. The Inspecting Engineer must
also report on applications for assistance towards the con-
struction of roads, tracks, and bridges in mining districts, for
subsidies towards prospecting, the construction of mining
works such as water-races, dams, reservoirs, &c., and, under
the direction of the Minister of Mines, take general control
of all works towards the cost of which money is contributed
by the Mines Department from votes provided by the
Legislature.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

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 impuri-
ties, from any mine in New Zealand, on the following con-
ditions, 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.

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 mate-
rially 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.

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 in-
   spect 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 quan-
tity 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 dura-
bility 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 produc-
tion, 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.