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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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 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.

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Bonus for Destruction of Rabbits.—Notice No. 436.

Department of Agriculture (Live-stock Branch),
Wellington, N.Z., 14th December, 1895.

A BONUS of £1,000 is offered for a practical scheme for
the destruction of rabbits.
The following are the conditions:—

1. All applications for the bonus must be sent addressed
   to the Hon. the Minister for Agriculture, Wellington, New
   Zealand, and must reach him not later than 31st May, 1896.
   Each application must be accompanied by a full description
   of the means proposed to be adopted.
2. 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 schemes
   they deem worthy of further consideration, and are satisfied
   may be used with absolute safety.
   On completion of the committee's preliminary investiga-
   tions each applicant will be notified of the decision arrived
   at, and whether or not his individual scheme will be further
   inquired into.
   The committee may afterwards inspect the whole or any
   of the schemes at any place or places within the colony, or
   may direct that the whole or any of them be submitted for
   trial at such time and place as they may think fit.
   The following shall be a basis of the trial:—
3. A suitable piece of rabbit-infested land shall be allowed
   to each applicant (of whose scheme the committee have
   approved), and on which he will have full power to carry out
   a trial of his scheme for a period not exceeding two years.
4. Each applicant on expiry of the period named shall
   submit a detailed and accurate statement of the actual
   cost incurred in testing his scheme.
   On the expiry of the period named the committee shall as
   soon as convenient thereafter (should they deem it neces-
   sary) make a personal inspection of each applicant's allot-
   ment, and shall take into consideration—
5. The actual cost incurred by each applicant in test-
   ing his scheme for the period above mentioned.
6. The result of the work done on each allotment.
   On completion of the tests the committee shall furnish a
   report to the Minister on all the schemes which they have
   examined or tested, and shall state—
7. The scheme which they consider on the whole the
   most practical, efficient, and economic; and if they consider
   such scheme worthy of the bonus.
8. Whether, in the event of no one scheme being entitled
   to the whole bonus, they deem any one worthy of a part;
   and, if so, how much.
   The committee has power to withhold all awards if they
   think none of the schemes submitted of sufficient impor-
   tance to merit a bonus.
   A sum not exceeding 6d. per acre may be paid to each
   competitor whose scheme is accepted for test by the com-
   mittee, and who, in the opinion of the committee, has done
   work deserving of recognition.
   JOHN McKENZIE,
   Minister for Agriculture.

Alterations and Additions to the Scale of Fares and Charges
in Force upon the New Zealand Government Railways.

I N accordance with "The Government Railways Act, 1894,"
I, Richard John Seddon, acting for the Minister for
Railways, do hereby make the following alterations in and
additions to the scale of fares, rates, and charges on the
New Zealand Government railways, to come into force on
and after the 3rd day of February, 1896:—

PART IV.—GOODS: LOCAL RATES.
AUCKLAND SECTION.

The following rates will be charged per ton on goods of
Classes A, B, C, D, carried between Auckland, Newmarket,
or Onehunga and the stations named, except otherwise
specified:—

Sugar, fencing-wire and materials, galvanised iron, bar,
rod, sheet, angle, and plate iron, from Auckland or New-