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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 18

Settlement of Claims for Compensation under "The Mining Act, 1891."

Mines Department,
Wellington, 18th February, 1897.

IN pursuance of the provisions of the 153rd section of
"The Mining Act, 1891," it is hereby notified that the
claims for compensation enumerated in the Schedule hereto,
in respect to a Proclamation issued under the hand of His
Excellency the Governor and the Public Seal of the Colony
on the 1st day of February, 1897, declaring that the New
River and Red Jack's and No Town Creeks, with their
tributaries, in the Provincial Districts of Westland and
Nelson respectively, shall be watercourses into which tail-
ings, &c., may be discharged, have been settled by agree-
ment, as provided by the said Act.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

SCHEDULE.

NEW RIVER.

| William Adams .. | Section 3, and house at No Town. |
| J. M. Clifford .. | Section 8, Township of No Town. |
| John Coutie and B. G. Howe | Section 5, Block I., No Town. |
| Jeremiah Mc- | Sections 1A, 3A, 11, 12, 17, and 20, |
| Carthy | Township of No Town; Section 41, |
| | Block VII., Mawheranui Survey Dis- |
| | trict. |
| Timothy Mullins | Section 104, Block X., Mawheranui |
| | Survey District. |
| William Low .. | Section 2, Brunner Parade. |
| P. Gillin .. | Sections 17 and 20, Block X., and Sec- |
| | tion 101, Blocks VI. and X., Grey |
| | Survey District. |
| John Egan .. | Section 108, Block X., Mawheranui |
| | Survey District. |
| P. Finegan .. | Section 24, Square 118, Grey Survey |
| | District. |
| T. Rundle, sen. .. | Sections 4 and 6, Township of No |
| | Town, and residence area. |
| John Marson .. | Section 13, Block I., Township of No |
| | Town, and Residence Area No. 1264. |
| T. Kelly .. | Section 19, Block X., Mawheranui Sur- |
| | vey District. |

RED JACK'S CREEK.

| Messrs. George and | Section 42, Block VII., Mawheranui |
| Alex. Gamble | Survey District. |
| M. McLaughlin .. | Sections 29, 41, 42, and 43, Block VII., |
| | Mawheranui Survey District. |
| John Dorrian .. | Sections 1A, 2, 3, and 4, Square 123, |
| | Grey Survey District. |
| John Baybutt .. | Section 48, Block VI., and Section 49, |
| | Block VII., Mawheranui Survey Dis- |
| | trict. |

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.

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.

R. J. SEDDON,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.