Aug. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1431

Volunteer Officers promoted.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 3rd August, 1897.

HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Government
has been pleased to approve of the under-mentioned
appointments, under paragraph 73, Volunteer Regulations,
1895 :—

General Medical List, New Zealand Volunteers.
Surgeon-Captain Thomas Orr Guthrie to be Surgeon-Major.
Commission to date from the 6th February, 1897.
Surgeon-Captain George Cleghorn to be Surgeon-Major.
Commission to date from the 13th May, 1897.
Surgeon-Captain James Irving to be Surgeon-Major.
Commission to date from the 24th May, 1897.
T. THOMPSON.

Notice of Intention to take Land for Cape Palliser Light-house.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the
provisions of "The Public Works Act, 1894," to
execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of
a lighthouse, and other works in connection therewith, at or
near Cape Palliser, and for the purposes of such public
work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required
to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the
plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the
Post-office, Martinborough, and is there open for inspection;
and that all persons affected by the execution of the said
public work or by the taking of the said land shall, if they
have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the
said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the
same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days
from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister for
Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.
The parcel of land mentioned hereunder :—

In the Land District of Wellington; as the same is more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 17996,
deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at
Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and
thereon coloured red.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this fourth day
of August, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-seven.
A. J. CADMAN,
For Minister for Public Works.

Notice of Intention to take Land for a Road in connection
with the Railway from the Main Line of the Waitaki-Bluff
Railway to Oteramika and Toitois, Seaward Bush Branch,
Further Part of Mataura Section.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the
provisions of "The Public Works Act, 1894," to
execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of
a road in connection with the railway from the main line of
the Waitaki-Bluff Railway to Oteramika and Toitois, Sea-
ward Bush Branch, further part of Mataura Section, and
for the purposes of such public work the land described in
the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is
hereby further given that the plan of the said road and of
the land so required to be taken is deposited in the Post-office,
Fortrose, and is there open for inspection; and that all
persons affected by the execution of the said public work or
by the taking of the said land shall, if they have any well-
grounded objections to the execution of the said public work
or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing,
and send such writing, within forty days from the first
publication of this notice, to the Minister for Public Works,
Wellington.

SCHEDULE.
The parcels of land mentioned hereunder :—

In the Land District of Southland; as the same are more
particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 17961,
deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at
Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and
thereon coloured purple and sepia.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this fourth day
of August, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-seven.
A. J. CADMAN,
For Minister for Public Works.

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
shaifting, 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.