1096
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47

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.

Notice of Appointment of Agent for the Public Trustee.

Wellington, 5th June, 1899.

IT is hereby notified for general information that

M. W. P. LASCELLES, Esq.,

has been appointed Agent for the Public Trustee at Napier, as from the 1st instant.

A. A. K. DUNCAN,
Deputy Public Trustee.

In the matter of “The Foreign Insurance Companies Deposits Act, 1894”; and in the matter of the Victoria Insurance Company.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the above-mentioned Act, the Public Trustee hereby gives notice that the above-named company, on the 26th day of October, 1898, gave the Public Trustee six months’ notice, duly signed on behalf of the company, that it had ceased to carry on business in the colony, and proposed to withdraw all deposits made by it under the provisions of the above-mentioned Act, and that the Public Trustee has satisfied himself that from the date of service of such notice the company has not (except as to policies or contracts granted or made before such date) carried on business in this colony, and that all the liabilities of the company in the colony are duly provided for, and that the Public Trustee has decided to allow the said company to withdraw all deposits lodged with him under the said Act.

This notice does not refer in any way to the company since and now carrying on business in this colony under the like title to the above-named company.

Dated this 23rd day of May, 1899.

A. A. K. DUNCAN,
Deputy Public Trustee.

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

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 7th June, 1899.

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 properties being estimated not to exceed £250 in each case.

John Mason, late of the Globe Mine, Reefton, in the Provincial District of Nelson, miner. Filed on the 30th day of May, 1899.

Eden Denman Wilton, late of Newtown, Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, butcher. Filed on the 1st day of June, 1899.

William Morrison, late of Shirley, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, farmer. Filed on the 1st day of June, 1899.

Frederick George Masters, late of Otahuhu, in the Provincial District of Auckland, gentleman. Filed on the 2nd day of June, 1899.

Martha Halliburton, late of Dunsandel, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, widow. Filed on the 5th day of June, 1899.

James Salmon, late of Tairua, in the Provincial District of Auckland, gum-digger. Filed on the 5th day of June, 1899.

A. A. K. DUNCAN,
Deputy Public Trustee.

Commissioner’s Decisions under Tariff Acts.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 7th June, 1899.

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.

W. T. GLASGOW,
Secretary and Inspector.
Commissioner’s Order No. 615.]

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 3rd June, 1899.

THE Tamahine Lodge, situated at Kaiapoi, is registered as a branch of the North Canterbury District of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Odd Fellows Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 3rd day of June, 1899.

EDMUND MASON,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.