624 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 22

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 Production of Mineral Manure.—Notice No. 454.

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 Agricul-
   ture 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 dis-
   posed of at a price which will allow of its being remunera-
   tively 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 con-
   tain 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 includ-
ing the 1st day of August, 1897.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister for Agriculture.

*Order of Court vesting Lands in the Public Trustee under
"The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894."

In the matter of "The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894"; and
in the matter of a parcel of land, being Allotment 5,
Block IV., Township of Mornington, near Dunedin; and
in the matter of a parcel of land, being Allotments 9 and
10, Block I., of the said township.

I HEREBY give notice that by an order of Joshua Strange
Williams, Esquire, a Judge of the Supreme Court at
Dunedin, made on the 3rd day of February, 1897, all that
parcel of land, containing 16 poles, more or less, being Allot-
ment 5, Block IV., on the plan of the Township of Morning-
ton, being a subdivision of Section 92, Block VI., Town
District, bounded towards the east by McCrae Street,
60·6 links; towards the south by Allotment 6, Block IV.,
on the same plan, 168·2 links; towards the west by Section 91,
Block VI., Town District, 60·6 links; and towards the north
by Allotment 4, Block IV., on same plan, 169·7 links: and
also a parcel of land, containing 32 poles, more or less,
being Allotments 9 and 10, Block I., on the said plan, bounded
towards the east by Allotment 11, Block I., on said plan, 119·7
links; towards the south by Allotments 7 and 8, Block I.,
on said plan, 185·6 links; towards the west by Section 91,
Block VI., Town District, 95·5 links; and towards the north-
north-west by a road, 194 links,—was vested in the Public
Trustee of the Colony of New Zealand, in terms of the pro-
visions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand
intituled "The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894."

Dated at Wellington, this 25th day of February, 1897.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

*Notice published pursuant to the Provisions of Section 15 of
"The Public Trust Office Consolidation Act, 1894."

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 2nd March, 1897.

N OTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken
out administration, the Public Trustee has filed in
the office of the Supreme Court at Wellington an election
to administer the several intestate estates of the persons
deceased whose names, residences, and occupations, so far
as known, are hereunder respectively set forth, their gross
properties being estimated not to exceed £250 in each case.

Arthur William Perreau, late of Foxton, in the Provincial
District of Wellington, farmer. Filed on the 17th February,
1897.

Joseph Tillett, late of Stewart Island, in the Provincial
District of Otago, fisherman. Filed on the 17th February,
1897.

Denis Horgan, late of Kihikihi, in the Provincial District
of Auckland, bootmaker. Filed on the 17th February,
1897.

James Doran, late of Rockford, Illinois, U.S.A. Filed on
the 2nd March, 1897.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

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.

I T 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:—