Dec. 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2195

New Zealand Hemp.—Notice No. 478.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 30th March, 1897.

THE time for receiving applications for the bonuses
mentioned in Notice No. 430 has been extended to
31st December, 1897.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister for Agriculture.

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 December, 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.

New Zealand Institute.

Wellington, 14th December, 1897.

THE under-mentioned members have been duly elected
Governors of the New Zealand Institute, to represent
the incorporated societies, for the ensuing year:—
S. Percy Smith, Esq., F.R.G.S.
James McKerrow, Esq., F.R.A.S.
Major-General Schaw, C.B., R.E.
JAMES HECTOR,
Manager.

Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies' Registry Office,
Wellington, 10th December, 1897.

THE Grand Lodge of Otago and Southland District, New
Zealand, of the United Ancient Order of Druids,
situated at Dunedin, is registered as a friendly society,
under "The Friendly Societies Act, 1882," this 10th day
of December, 1897.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Notice by the Public Trustee under "The Unclaimed Lands
Act, 1894."

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing
17·3 poles, more or less, being Allotment 12, Block 16,
situated at the corner of Macandrew Road and Nelson
Street, in the extension of the Township of Forbury, near
Dunedin, in the Provincial District of Otago. The last
registered owner was William Kennedy, now deceased,
who is stated to have sold the land to Martin Taylor, said
to have been a plasterer, at one time residing at South
Dunedin, who cannot be traced.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has instituted inquiries,
and has not thereby ascertained who the owner or
owners of the above-described land is or are, and believes
that such owner is, or owners are, not in the colony:
Now, this notice calls upon such owner or owners, within
six months of the date of the publication of this notice in
this Gazette, to establish to the satisfaction of the Public
Trustee his or their title to the land specified in this notice;
and, if such owner does or owners do not, within the time
limited, so establish his or their title, the Public Trustee will
exercise the powers and authorities granted to him in and by
"The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894."
Dated this 13th day of December, 1897.
JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

Tender.

Railway Department (Head Office),
Wellington, 10th December, 1897.

THE following accepted tender is published for general
information.

T. RONAYNE,
General Manager, New Zealand Railways.

Refreshment-rooms at Woodville Railway-station.

Rental per
Annum.
Thomas Fairhurst . . . . . . £338 0 0

Tenders.

Railway Department (Head Office),
Wellington, 14th December, 1897.

THE following list of accepted tenders for book-stalls at
railway-stations is published for general information.
T. RONAYNE,
General Manager, New Zealand Railways.

Station. Name. Rental.
£ s. d.
Auckland .. R. Spreckley .. 48 0 0
Napier .. G. R. Palmer .. 8 10 0†
Hastings .. H. H. Hunt .. 1 0 0
Palmerston North .. I. Essex .. 0 6 6†
Hawera .. D. N. Scott .. 8 0 0
Wellington .. J. P. Elliot .. 22 10 0
Masterton .. J. P. Elliot .. 4 12 0
Christchurch .. C. H. Rhodes .. 50 0 0
Ashburton .. J. Marsden .. 15 10 0
Timaru .. P. W. Hutton and Co. 35 0 0
Dunedin .. G. W. Geddes .. 91 0 0*
Invercargill .. Rodgers Brothers .. 6 0 0†

• Per annum.
  † From 1st January, 1898, to 31st March, 1898.