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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.

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Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under "The
Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894."

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have,
for the purposes of "The Unclaimed Lands Act,
1894," made due inquiries with respect to the land described
in the Schedule hereunder written and the owner thereof,
and have, in respect of the said land, given the notices
prescribed by section 4 of the said Act, and have in all
respects complied with the provisions of the said section:
And whereas I have not thereby ascertained who the owner
is, and believe that such owner is not in the colony, nor has
such owner established his title to the said land, as required
by the said Act: I hereby give notice that the said land is,
under and by virtue of the said Act, vested in me, as the
Public Trustee as aforesaid, as from the date of the publica-
tion hereof, and will be administered under the said Act,
the value of the said land being less than £100.
Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of July, 1897.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing by admeasurement 1 acre
29·3 poles, more or less, being part of a subdivision of Sec-
tion 1, Block I., Campbelltown Hundred, in Otago, situate
near the Pilot-station at Starling Point, fronting the road
facing the water there, the adjoining land to the north-east
being owned or occupied by T. S. Mullan. Bounded towards
the north-east by a line, 670 links; towards the south-east
by the said road, 133·6 links; towards the south-west by
lines, 60·3 links and 629·1 links; and towards the north-west
by a line, 178 links.

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under "The
Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894."

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have,
for the purposes of "The Unclaimed Lands Act,
1894," made due inquiries with respect to the land de-
scribed in the Schedule hereunder written and the owner
thereof, and have, in respect of the said land, given the
notices prescribed by section 4 of the said Act, and have in
all respects complied with the provisions of the said section:
And whereas I have not thereby ascertained who the owner
is, and believe that such owner is not in the colony, nor has
such owner established his title to the said land as required
by the said Act: I hereby give notice that the said land is,
under and by virtue of the said Act, vested in me, as the
Public Trustee as aforesaid, as from the date of the publica-
tion hereof, and will be administered under the said Act,
the value of the said land being less than £100.
Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of July, 1897.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing by admeasurement 18·6
poles, more or less, being part of a subdivision of Section 1,
Block I., Campbelltown Hundred, in Otago, having an
oblique frontage to the road facing the water there of
60 links, by a varying depth of 261 links on the west side,
and 230 links on the east side, and situate between lands
owned or occupied by — Craig and — Gilroy.

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under "The
Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894."

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee,
have, for the purposes of "The Unclaimed Lands
Act, 1894," made due inquiries with respect to the land
described in the Schedule hereunder written and the owner
thereof, and have, in respect of the said land, given the
notices prescribed by section 4 of the said Act, and have in
all respects complied with the provisions of the said section:
And whereas I have not thereby ascertained who the owner
is, and believe that such owner is not in the colony, nor has
such owner established his title to the said land, as required
by the said Act: I hereby give notice that the said land is,
under and by virtue of the said Act, vested in me, as the
Public Trustee as aforesaid, as from the date of the publica-
tion hereof, and will be administered under the said Act,
the value of the said land being less than £100.
Dated at Wellington, this 6th day of July, 1897.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing by admeasurement 2 roods
23·9 poles, more or less, being part of a subdivision of Sec-
tion 1, Block I., Campbelltown Hundred, in Otago. Bounded