1746

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 81

SCHEDULE.

ROAD THROUGH MANGATAINOKA J No. 2A, MANGAHAO SURVEY
DISTRICT.

Approximate Being Portions Survey Shown Marked Coloured
Area of the of on Plan on Plan on Plan
Land taken. Native Block Block District. marked

A. R. P. Mangatai- XI. Manga- 30 A to Brown
7 3 12 noka J hao 40 B.
No. 2A
Block

As the said area is delineated upon the plan marked as
above mentioned, deposited in the District Office of the
Lands and Survey Department at Wellington, in the Wel-
lington Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.
Dated this 22nd day of October, 1896.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Bonus for Production of Mineral Manure.—Notice No. 445.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 25th July, 1896.

A BONUS of £200 is hereby offered for the discovery and
working within the colony of a deposit or deposits of
marketable mineral manure.
The following are the conditions under which the bonus
is offered and will be paid:—

1. That the raw material be easily accessible, and within
   reasonable distance of a road or railway.
2. That the person appointed by the Minister for Agriculture to examine the deposit is satisfied that there is sufficient
   to meet all ordinary demands for five years.
3. That at least 200 tons of such manure have been disposed of at a price which will allow of its being remuneratively used for agricultural purposes, and that a further
   supply can be placed on the market at the same price.
4. That, if the deposit be mineral coprolites, it shall contain by analysis at least 20 per cent. of phosphoric acid.
5. That, if the deposit be mineral apatites, it shall contain
   by analysis at least 25 per cent. of phosphoric acid.
   Applications addressed to “The Hon. the Minister for
   Agriculture, Wellington,” will be received up to and including the 1st day of August, 1897.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister for Agriculture.

Bonuses for Encouragement of New Zealand Hemp (Phormium 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
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.
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 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.

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