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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.

Appointment of Agent at Westport to the Public Trustee.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 6th April, 1897.

IT is hereby notified for general information that
Arthur Doyley Bayfield, Esq.,
has been appointed to be Agent at Westport to the Public
Trustee, as from the 1st day of April, 1897, vice Sergeant
Emerson.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

Appointment of Agent at Hokitika to the Public Trustee.

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 6th April, 1897.

IT is hereby notified for general information that
William Duncan, Esq.,
has been appointed to be Agent at Hokitika to the Public
Trustee, as from the 1st day of April, 1897, vice Sergeant
Fraser, transferred.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies' Registry Office,
Wellington, 6th April, 1897.

THE Olive Branch Lodge, No. 18, situated at Hornby,
is registered as a branch of the Grand Lodge of
Canterbury District, New Zealand, of the United Ancient
Order of Druids Friendly Society, under "The Friendly
Societies Act, 1882," this 6th day of April, 1897.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Te Makarini Scholarships, held at Te Aute College, Hawke's
Bay.

THREE scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable
for two years, are offered for competition. One of
these scholarships, to be called the senior scholarship, is
open to all Maori boys under sixteen years of age at the end
of the month preceding the date of the examination: the
other two scholarships are junior scholarships, one of which
is open to all Maori boys under fifteen years of age at the
end of the month preceding the date of the examination
who have attended a Native school or schools other than
Te Aute or St. Stephen's, and whose attendance at school
during the previous year is considered by the Inspector of
Native Schools to have been satisfactory; the other is open
to boys whose attendance at any school during the previous
year has been similarly satisfactory. The senior scholarship
is offered for competition among Maori boys on the conditions
laid down in the regulations of the Trustees of the Te Maka-
rini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Native Schools
Code, 1897. Candidates for the junior scholarships will be
examined in the subjects specified for Standard IV. in the
Native Schools Code, 1897. The questions will, however, be
more difficult than those set for the standard examinations.
The examination will be held at convenient centres on the
20th and 21st December, 1897.

Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers,
send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education
Department, Wellington, of their intention to present them-
selves for examination. Such notice must be posted not
later than the 31st October next.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be
obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding insti-
tutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secre-
tary for Education.

JAMES H. POPE,
Inspector of Native Schools.

Wellington, 15th March, 1897.

Erratum.—In line 13, before the word "boys," insert the
word "Maori."—James H. Pope.

Public Notice under "The Stock Act, 1893," re Liver-fluke.—
Notice No. 470.

Department of Agriculture (Live-stock Branch),
Wellington, 5th January, 1897.

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 direction of an
Inspector of Stock:—

All that piece or parcel of land, known as the Te Aute
Run, situated in the Waipawa, Hawke's Bay, and Patangata
Counties, bounded as follows: Commencing at the Te Aute
Railway-station, thence in a northerly direction along the
boundary of the Te Hauke Proclaimed District to the point
where the prolongation of the boundary between Lots 1
and 2 of the Ngawhakatatara Block continued across the
Poukawa Lake would strike it; thence easterly along the said
line and boundary to the Tukituki River; thence up that river
to the south boundary of Patangata No. 2; thence westerly
along the southern boundary of that block to the Papanui
Stream; thence up that stream and the eastern boundary
of Patangata No. 3 to the southern boundary of that block;
thence westerly along the southern boundaries of Patangata
No. 3 and the Otane Block to the south-east corner of the
land granted to the Bishop of Wellington; thence westerly
along the southern boundary of the aforesaid land to the
southern boundary of Sebastopol No. 3 Paddock; thence
westerly along that boundary to the south-west corner of
that paddock; thence northerly along the western boundaries
of the aforesaid paddock and of the land granted to the
Bishop of Wellington to the north-west corner of the said
land; thence easterly along the northern boundary of the