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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 105

PART IV.—GOODS: LOCAL RATES.

Westport Section.

Sheep booked through between stations on the Govern-
ment railway (Waimangaroa Junction excepted) and stations
on the Waimangaroa Branch line will be charged 3d. per
head for conveyance on the branch in addition to the
classified or local rates on the Government line.

As witness my hand, this twenty-first day of De-
cember, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
seven.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister for Railways.

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.

Government Printing and Stationery Offices to be closed from
25th December to 3rd January, inclusive.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 20th December, 1897.

THE Government Printing and Stationery Offices, Wel-
lington, will be closed from Saturday the 25th Decem-
ber, 1897, until Monday, the 3rd January, 1898, both days
inclusive.

By order.
HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Notice of the Laying-off of a Road over Native Land in the
Karioi Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given, under the authority contained
in section 96 of "The Native Land Court Act, 1886,"
and the amendments thereof, that the road mentioned in
the Schedule hereto was, on the 4th day of May, 1897, sur-
veyed and laid off over the Native land therein mentioned,
under my direction; and that, in terms of the said Act, the
site of such road shall be deemed to be a road dedicated to
the public, and shall vest in Her Majesty.

SCHEDULE.
UNSURVEYED NATIVE LAND.

Area. | Block. | Survey | Shown on | Coloured
| | District. | Plan | on
| | | marked | Plan
A. R. P. | XIII. | Karioi | 10901 | Red.
0 2 32 | | | |

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 Auckland, in the Auckland
Land District, and thereon coloured as above stated.

A. BARRON,
Assistant Surveyor-General.

Notice of the Laying-off of Portion of Road over Land in
the Maketu Survey District.

NOTICE is hereby given, under the authority contained
in section 96 of "The Native Land Court Act, 1886,"
and the amendments thereof, that the road mentioned in
the Schedule hereto was, on the 5th day of October, 1894,
surveyed and laid off over the Native land therein mentioned,
under my direction; and that, in terms of the said Act, the
site of such road shall be deemed to be a road dedicated to
the public, and shall vest in Her Majesty.

SCHEDULE.
UNSURVEYED NATIVE LAND.

Area. | Native | Survey | Shown on | Coloured
| Block. | District. | Plan | on
| | | marked | Plan
A. R. P. | Kenana | Maketu | 7099 | Red.
12 0 32 | No. 2 | | |

As the said area is delineated, as between letters A B and
B C, upon the plan marked as above mentioned, deposited
in the District Office of the Lands and Survey Department
at Auckland, in the Auckland Land District, and thereon
coloured as above stated.

A. BARRON,
Assistant Surveyor-General.