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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 59

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.

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 contain-
   ing 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, Wel-
   lington, 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.

Crown Lands Notices.

Pastoral Run, Southland, for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Invercargill, 1st August, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned
pastoral run will be offered for lease by public
auction, at this office, on Wednesday, the 23rd September,
1896:--

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Pastoral Run No. 207, Hokonui Survey District: Area,
6,047 acres; term, ten years; upset annual rental, 2d. per
acre.

G. W. WILLIAMS,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-run, Taranaki Land District, open for Lease
on Application.

Lands and Survey Office,
New Plymouth, 1st August, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned small
grazing-run will be open for lease on application on
and after Wednesday, the 30th September, 1896, at the
rental noted below. In case of more than one application
for the same run on the same day, priority of selection will
be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

SCHEDULE.
SECOND-CLASS PASTORAL COUNTRY.

Weighted with £30, value of improvements, which must
be paid with application.

Locality and Description of Run.—This run is situate on
the Patea River, about thirteen miles from the Town of
Patea. Access can be obtained by the river, and by the Ball
Road from Alton, which is formed for dray-traffic to within
about a mile of the run. The land comprises rough grazing-
country—all forest, with the exception of 20 acres in grass.
The soil is of fair quality.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Small Grazing-runs open for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Napier, 1st August, 1896.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned
small grazing-runs will be open for lease on applica-
tion on and after Wednesday, the 30th September, 1896.

In the case of more than one application for the same run
on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by
ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m.

• Weighted with £2,000 for improvements.

Run No. 35 is first-class pastoral country, and Runs Nos.
32 and 36 are second-class pastoral country.

Description and Locality of Runs.

Run No. 32 is nearly all covered with mixed bush, mostly
tawa, matai, totara, &c. The southern portion is easy,
sloping country, and the open parts are covered with fern and
tutu. The soil on tops of hills is poor, but on the slopes is
good. Access can be gained from the Hangaroa Village and
from Tiniroto, a pack-track coming within 20 chains of the
run from the former place, and a formed road leading to
within a mile of the latter.

Run No. 35 is chiefly open land, with some mixed bush on
the northern portion, about 600 acres of which have been
cleared of forest and sown in English grass. Access is given
by roads both from the Hangaroa and Tiniroto Villages.
About 725 acres in the southern portion, near the homestead,
is surface-sown in English grass, but has gone back a little,
and is partially covered with fern and manuka. However,
as the run carries some 1,600 sheep, 30 cattle, and 6 horses
throughout the year, during some weeks of which they are
kept entirely on the southern portion, it is of value. The
run contains a homestead and woolshed, both recently
erected, store, stockyards, and sheep-dip, together with some
fencing, and, on account of the improvements effected, has
been loaded with £2,000 to be paid by the incoming tenant.

Run No. 36 is hilly pastoral country, soil light, overlying
a calcareous marl or papa formation. It is well watered,
and distant about twenty-three miles from Wairoa, on the
sea-coast. It is chiefly covered with fern and scrub, with
some patches of mixed bush.

THOS. HUMPHRIES,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.