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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 74

The following shall be the basis of the test:—
The committee shall supply a sufficient and equal quantity 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 durability 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 production, 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.

Officiating Ministers for 1897.—Notice No. 19.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd August, 1897.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand passed in the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Primitive Methodist Connexion.

The Reverend Percy James Cossum.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Notice by the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 15 acres, more or less, being Rural Section 32884, Block X., Alford Survey District, in the Provincial District of Canterbury. The last registered owner is Charles Henry Botter, described as of Ashburton, farmer, and in the local rate-roll he is called Charles Henry Boulter, of Mount Somers, but of whom nothing can be traced.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has instituted inquiries, and has not thereby ascertained who the owner or owners of the above-described land is or are, and believes that such owner is, or owners are, not in the colony:

Now, this notice calls upon such owner or owners, within six months of the date of the publication of this notice in this Gazette, to establish to the satisfaction of the Public Trustee his or their title to the land specified in this notice; and, if such owner does or owners do not, within the time limited, so establish his or their title, the Public Trustee will exercise the powers and authorities granted to him in and by “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

Dated this 19th day of August, 1897.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

Tenders for Post-office Pillar-boxes.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 23rd August, 1897.

TENDERS will be received at the General Post Office, Wellington, until the 15th proximo, for the manufacture and supply of twelve (12) iron pillar letter-boxes.
Plans and specifications may be seen at this office and the Chief Post Offices, Auckland, Thames, Christchurch, and Dunedin.
The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Tender.

Railway Department (Head Office),
Wellington, 25th August, 1897.

THE following accepted tender is published for general information.

T. RONAYNE,
General Manager, N.Z. Railways.

Supply of Cylinders for Rangitikei River Bridge.

Amount of Tender.
S. Luke and Co., Wellington .. .. £3,020 0 0

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 Ngawhakatara 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 aforesaid land to the main Kaikora North and Te Aute Road; thence northerly along that road to a road running through the Poupoutahi Block; thence easterly along that road to where it crosses the railway-line; thence northerly along the railway-line to the point of commencement.

All that piece or parcel of land, called or known as the “Flukey Paddock,” containing about 74 acres, situated in the Te Mahanga Run, Te Mata Survey District, Hawke’s Bay County.

JOHN D. RITCHIE,
Chief Inspector of Stock.

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.

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 of land, situated in the Hawke’s Bay Land District, called Te Hauke, and containing about 9,000 acres, being parts of Blocks XII. and XVI., Maraekakahu Survey