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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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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.

Bonus on Mineral Oil produced from Shale obtained in New Zealand.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 29th October, 1898.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus will be paid for
the production of mineral oil under the following
conditions:—

1. A bonus of 1s. per gallon (£5,000) will be paid on the
   first 100,000 gallons of mineral oil produced from shale
   obtained in the Colony of New Zealand, the oil to be of a
   quality approved of by Government, and to be sold at a
   price not exceeding 1s. a gallon at any port of shipment in
   the colony.
2. Notice of intention to claim the aforesaid bonus must
   be given in writing to the Colonial Secretary not later than
   the 31st December, 1899.
3. The claim must be made before the 30th June, 1900.
4. The first claimant who proves to the satisfaction of
   the Government that he has fulfilled all the conditions to
   be the recipient of the bonus.
5. The other conditions—as to quantity, priority, quality,
   and value—to be fulfilled to the satisfaction of an officer
   appointed for the purpose by the Government.

J. CARROLL.

Bonuses for Encouragement of New Zealand Hemp (Phormium tenax) Industry.—Notice No. 535.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 13th February, 1899.

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 materially 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 March, 1900. 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 inspect 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 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.

Tenders for Letter-carriers’ and Telegraph Messengers’ Uniforms, including Caps and Helmets.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 25th May, 1899.

TENDERS will be received at the General Post Office,
Wellington, until Friday, the 30th June, for the
manufacture within the colony, from New-Zealand-made
material, of letter-carriers’ uniforms — namely, tunic,
trousers, riding-trousers, overcoat, and overcoat with cape;
and for caps, helmets, and felt hats.

Samples may be seen at all Chief Post-offices, where also
specifications and form of tender may be obtained.

Tenders will at the same time be received for uniforms
and overcoats for telegraph messengers, samples of which
may be seen at any of the principal telegraph-offices.

Tenders quoting price for each garment, accompanied by
samples of material, to be addressed to the Hon. the Postmaster-General, General Post Office, Wellington, and indorsed outside “Tender for uniforms.”

The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

W. GRAY,
Secretary.

Officiating Ministers for 1899.—Notice No. 20.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 26th May, 1899.

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:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the
Church of England.

The Reverend George William Dent.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE. — ALEXANDER HUNT McKEAN, Esq., of Melbourne, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria,
has this day been appointed by his Honour the Chief
Justice a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New
Zealand in Victoria, under the 2nd section of “The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875,” for the purpose
of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and
affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington, this 25th day of May, 1899.

W. A. HAWKINS,
Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court.