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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 95

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
   shifting, 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.

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
Eliar

W. C. WALKER,
Minister of Education.

Patent Office Supplement.

A SPECIAL Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette is
now published fortnightly, containing all notices con-
cerning patents and trade-marks required by law to be
gazetted; also, particulars of lapsed applications for patents,
expired letters patent, and other information useful to in-
ventors, manufacturers, and others. The Supplement will
be issued free to subscribers to the Gazette, and to others on
payment of a subscription of ten shillings per annum, pay-
able in advance to the Government Printer.

Government Observations.

METEOROLOGICAL Observations, Wellington, for the
month of October, 1897. Altitude above sea-level 140ft. Observations taken at 9.30 a.m.

From Self-registering Instruments, for
Twenty-four Hours previously.

• Means, &c. † Same month previous years.

Note.—Showery weather during this month, except during
middle, when it was fine, but with strong N.W. wind; pre-
vailing wind from N.W., and frequently stormy; thunder on
27th and 28th; hail on 27th, slight. Maximum temperature
in shade 65°, minimum 38°; mean temperature of dew-point,
44°·7; mean humidity, 70. Earthquakes on 14th at 6 p.m.,
slight, and on 18th very slight at 7.30 a.m. Lunar halo
on night of 31st.

R. B. GORE, Observer.

Crown Lands Notices.

Crown Land in Pareora Settlement for Selection, with
Reduced Valuation for Improvements.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 1st November, 1897.

Notice is hereby given that the under-mentioned
allotment, weighted with a reduced valuation for
improvements, will be reopened for selection on Wednes-
day, 17th November, 1897, under the lease-in-perpetuity
system, subject to the provisions of "The Land Act, 1892,"
and the Land for Settlements Acts.

Lots 1 and 2, Pareora Settlement, near St. Andrew's:
53 acres 3 roods 38 perches; annual rental, £34 16s. 6d.;
valuation for improvements, £67 17s. 6d., payable on
selection.

Further particulars may be obtained at this office.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.