JULY 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1349

Gas, ammonia, compressed, in solid drawn steel tubes.
Owners' risk. Dangerous .. .. .. A

Cancelled—Glass, broken, packed .. .. D
Glass, broken, loose, in truck-loads. Owners' risk F
Glass, broken, packed. Owners' risk .. .. F

Cancelled—Poultry, living, in crates or cases.
Owners' risk. (See also Part II.) .. .. A
Poultry, living, in crates or cases. Owners' risk. (See
also Part II.) .. .. .. .. B

Rails, iron, old, not for scrap. Owners' risk .. N

Sheepskins, green, loose, or in bundles exceeding
1 cwt., loaded or unloaded by Railway Department.
Owners' risk. Rate and a quarter .. .. B

Cancelled—Slate slabs, for furniture and house-
fitting. Owners' risk. Special goods .. A
Slate slabs, for tanks. Owners' risk .. .. B
Slates, roofing. Owners' risk .. .. .. N

Slate slabs, for furniture and house-fitting, imported.
Owners' risk. Special goods .. .. .. A
Slate slabs, for furniture and house-fitting, New Zea-
land manufacture. Owners' risk. Special goods .. B
Slate slabs, for tanks and slate ridging, imported.
Owners' risk .. .. .. .. B
Slate slabs, for tanks and slate ridging, New Zealand
manufacture. Owners' risk .. .. .. P
Slates, roofing, imported. Owners' risk .. .. N
Slates, roofing, New Zealand manufacture. Owners'
risk .. .. .. .. .. P

Cancelled—Tricycles, packed. Owners' risk .. A
Tricycles, packed in cases (if sent through parcels,
rate and a quarter). Owners' risk .. .. A
Tricycle-wheels, packed (if sent through parcels, rate
and a quarter). Owners' risk .. .. .. A

PART VI.—WHARVES.
KAWAKAWA SECTION.
Opua Wharf Station Rates.

Goods transhipped from or into ships lying at the wharf
will be charged half-rates.

Dargaville Wharf.

The working-hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on week-
days.

No ship shall discharge or take in cargo at other times
without written notice being given by the ship's officer to
the wharfinger, under a penalty of £5 for each offence.

The captain or agent of each vessel must supply the
wharfinger with a correct copy of the vessel's manifest prior
to discharging any cargo, under a penalty of £5 for each
offence.

As witness my hand, this twentieth day of July, 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.

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.