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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 62

Notice of Intention to take Land for a Road through Block VIII., Cloudy Bay Survey District.

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 through Block VIII., Cloudy Bay Survey District, and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is further given that the plan of the said road and of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the Post-office, Blenheim, and is there open for inspection. And notice is hereby given 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.

All in the Marlborough Land District; as the said areas are delineated upon the plan marked as above stated, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this fifteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.

Mines Office,
Wellington, 17th February, 1898.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of fourpence (4d.) per pound will be paid on the production of the first one hundred thousand pounds weight (100,000lb.) of good marketable retorted quicksilver, free from all impurities, from any mine in New Zealand, on the following conditions, that is to say:—

1. That at least one-third of the quantity is produced on or before the 31st March, 1900, and the remaining two-thirds on or before the 31st March, 1901.
2. No bonus will be payable until the whole of the one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced as stipulated to the satisfaction of an officer to be appointed by the Minister of Mines, and on whose certificate alone the bonus will be paid.
3. In the event of more than one person producing the required quantities of quicksilver before the dates named, inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when, if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus, the amount will be divided in proportion to the quantities produced by each applicant, but in no case shall any bonus be paid until at least one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced in the aggregate.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Examination of Land Surveyors.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 6th August, 1898.

IN accordance with the regulations for the examination of surveyors under “The Land Act, 1892,” as published in the New Zealand Gazette of 5th March, 1896, it is hereby notified that the following person has been granted a certificate:—

UNDER CLAUSE 19.
Thomas B. Ross Dix.

S. PERCY SMITH,
Chairman of the Board of Examiners.

Endowment Reserves for Education sanctioned by Parliament.

Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, 15th August, 1898.

THE following resolutions, passed by the Legislative Council and the House of Representatives, are published in accordance with section 238 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

J. CARROLL.

No. 2, 1898.

EXTRACT from the Journals of the Legislative Council, Tuesday, the 12th Day of July, 1898.

Resolved, That this Council approves of the lands proposed to be reserved as endowments for primary education, as set forth in Paper No. 38, of 28th June, 1898, being permanently set aside as endowments for primary education.

On the motion of the Hon. Mr. W. C. Walker.

A true extract.

L. STOWE,
Clerk, Legislative Council.

No. 63, 1898.

EXTRACT from the Journals of the House of Representatives, Friday, the 22nd Day of July, 1898.

Ordered, That this House approves of the lands proposed to be reserved as endowments for primary education (as set forth in Paper No. 46, laid upon the table on the 29th June, 1898) being permanently set aside as endowments for primary education.

On the motion of the Hon. Mr. J. McKenzie.

A true extract.

H. OTTERSON,
Acting-Clerk, House of Representatives.

The following are the lands referred to in the above resolutions:—