Dec. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2007

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.

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-
   ington, 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
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.

Notice No. 461, substituted for
Public Notice under "The Stock Act, 1893," re Liver-fluke.—
Notice No. 449.

Department of Agriculture (Live-stock Branch),
Wellington, 7th September, 1896.

IT having been reported to me that the disease known as
"liver-fluke" exists amongst sheep running on certain
lands in the Hawke's Bay Land District, I therefore, in
accordance with section 14, subsection (4), of "The Stock
Act, 1893," hereby declare the under-mentioned lands to be
an infected place, from which no sheep, carcase, or any
portion thereof, shall be removed, except under the direc-
tion of an Inspector of Stock:—
All that piece of land, situated in the Hawke's Bay Land
District, called Te Hauke, and containing about 9,000 acres,
being parts of Blocks XII. and XVI., Maraekakahu Survey
District, and Blocks IX. and XIII., Te Mata Survey District,
in the Hawke's Bay County. Bounded by a line starting at
the north-eastern corner of Block 13, in Block XVI., Marae-
kakahu Survey District; thence in a north-east direction by
a right line to Trig. Station N; thence northerly by a right
line to the south-west corner of the Waikareao Block; thence
generally north-easterly by the north-western boundaries of
the Raukawa Nos. 3 and 2 Blocks, the Pukehou No. 1, and
the Poukawa Native Reserve, and Koparakore A to the
north-western corner of the last-named block; thence south-
easterly by the north-eastern boundary A and B to its
intersection with the railway-line; thence south-westerly
by a right line to Te Aute Railway-station; thence south-
west by the railway-line to its intersection with the Hawke's
Bay County boundary; thence generally north-westerly by
the aforesaid boundary to the starting-point.
All that parcel of land in the Land District of Hawke's
Bay, being called or known by the name of the "Ram
Paddock," containing about 80 acres, being a portion of
Whenuahou C Nos. 1 and 2 North, in Block III., Tahoraita
Survey District, Waipawa County. Bounded on the north-
west by the Porongahau Stream; on the north and east by
Blocks 120 and 69; and on the south generally by other
portion of Whenuahou C Nos. 1 and 2 North, aforesaid.
All that piece or parcel of land in the Land District of
Hawke's Bay, being called or known by the name of
"Takapau Paddock," containing about 190 acres, being
portion of Subdivision No. 3, Otawhao Block, in Block III.,
Takapau Survey District, Waipawa County. Bounded on
the north by Blocks 234 and 120; on the south generally by
the Porongahau Stream and a public road; and on the west
by the railway-line.
All that piece or parcel of land in the Land District of
Hawke's Bay, called or known as "Rees Davis Paddock,"
containing 110 acres, being Section 7 of Whenuahou D.E.
No. 1 Block, in VI. and VII., Takapau Survey District,
Waipawa County. Bounded on the south-east by a public