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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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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.

Notice by the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land containing 80 acres, more or less, being north-western portion of Allotment 69 and south-western portion of Allotment 70, Parish of Ruarangi, in the Provincial District of Auckland. The registered owner is Henry Greenacre, described as of Auckland, Settler.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has instituted inquiries, and has not thereby ascertained who the owner or owners of the above-described land is or are, and believes that such owner is, or owners are, not in the colony:
Now, this notice calls upon such owner or owners, within six months of the date of the publication of this notice in this Gazette, to establish to the satisfaction of the Public Trustee his or their title to the land specified in this notice; and if such owner does or owners do not, within the time limited, so establish his or their title, the Public Trustee will exercise the powers and authorities granted to him in and by “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”
Dated this 23rd day of February, 1900.

JAMES C. MARTIN,
Public Trustee.

[A notice to the like effect was published in the New Zealand Gazette published 18th November, 1893. The incomplete steps then taken have been abandoned, and the publications directed by “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894,” are now commenced de novo.]

Officiating Ministers for 1900.—Notice No. 6.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 28th February, 1900.

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 names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.
The Reverend John Sydney Houghton Cawte.

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend William Watt.

Baptists.
The Reverend Randolph St. Cyr Gray.

GEO. DRURY,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Officer dismissed.

Post and Telegraph Department
(General Post Office),
Wellington, 19th February, 1900.

HIS Excellency the Governor in Council has been pleased to dismiss from the public service of the colony

WILLIAM HENRY FISHER,
late letter-carrier in the Post-office at Rangiora.

J. G. WARD,
Postmaster-General and Electric Telegraph Commissioner.

Crown Lands Notices.

Land in Punaroa Settlement, Canterbury, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Christchurch, 27th February, 1900.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned Crown lands will be open for selection upon lease in perpetuity on Thursday, the 19th April, 1900.

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—TENGAWAI SURVEY DISTRICT.—MACKENZIE COUNTY.—PUNAROA SETTLEMENT.

First-class Agricultural Land.

Second-class Agricultural Land.

• Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £300, repayable in twenty-one years in half-yearly instalments of £11 14s.: total half-yearly, £123 1s. 6d.
  † Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £75, repayable in twenty-one years in half-yearly instalments of £2 18s. 6d.: total half-yearly, £34 19s.

SIDNEY WEETMAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands,