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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 93

*Notice published pursuant to the Provisions of Section 15 of
"The Public Trust Office Consolidation Act, 1894."

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 2nd November, 1897.

NOTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken
out administration, the Public Trustee has filed in
the Office of the Supreme Court at Wellington an election
to administer the several intestate estates of the persons
deceased whose names, residences, and occupations, so far as
known, are hereunder respectively set forth, their gross pro-
perties being estimated not to exceed £250 in each case.

Antonio Mohovich, late of Akaroa, in the Provincial Dis-
trict of Canterbury, gardener. Filed on the 27th day of
October, 1897.

Christopher McRae, late of Moanatairi Creek, in the Pro-
vincial District of Auckland, miner. Filed on the 30th day
of October, 1897.

John Hill, late of Ngapara, in the Provincial District of
Otago, labourer. Filed on the 30th day of October, 1897.

John Ryder, late of Nukora, in the Provincial District of
Canterbury, labourer. Filed on the 30th day of October,
1897.

George Robert Gregory, late of Auckland, in the Pro-
vincial District of Auckland, sailor. Filed on the 30th day
of October, 1897.

Sarah Ann Wild, late of Petone, in the Provincial Dis-
trict of Wellington, widow. Filed on the 30th day of
October, 1897.

Maurice Edward Barton, late of Dunedin, in the Pro-
vincial District of Otago, hawker. Filed on the 30th day
of October, 1897.

George Palmer, late of Waikanae, in the Provincial Dis-
trict of Wellington, surveyor. Filed on the 30th day of
October, 1897.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

Commissioner's Decisions under Tariff Acts.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 3rd November, 1897.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Hon.
the Commissioner of Trade and Customs has decided
to interpret the Customs and Excise Duties Acts in relation
to the under-mentioned articles as follows:—

Note.—"Not otherwise enumerated" appears as n.o.e.; "other
kinds" as o.k.; "articles and materials suited only for, and to be
used solely in, the fabrication of goods in the colony" as a. & m.s.
Articles marked thus * are revised decisions.

ing gold; as machinery for gold-
saving purposes and processes | Free. |
| *97/1260. Hickory boards, planed; as timber,
sawn, dressed | 4s. the 100 ft.
superficial. |
| 97/1207. Laths, dressed, in sizes suitable for
Venetian blinds, and without holes
for cords; as timber sawn, dressed | 4s. the 100 ft.
superficial. |
| 97/1348. Malted milk (Horlick's); as drug-
gists' sundries | 20 per cent. |
| 97/1283. Pulp, in sheets, rolls, or bulk, for
paper-manufacture; as a. & m.s. | Free. |
| 97/1275. Rubber rings, imported for the
stoppers of glass jars or bottles;
as washers | Free. |

W. T. GLASGOW,
Secretary and Inspector.

Commissioner's Order No. 536.]

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 21st October, 1897.

IN pursuance of regulations under "The Civil Service
Reform Act, 1886," notice is hereby given that for the
Senior Examination of January, 1899, the period of literature
will be the reign of Queen Anne, and the special books will
be Shakespeare's "King Henry V." and Lamb's "Essays of
Elia."

W. C. WALKER,
Minister of Education.

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.