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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 60

The total amount offered is £1,000, and it will be paid at the rate of one-fifth of a penny per pound to the manufacturer or manufacturers of the first 1,200,000 lb. of long-keeping condensed milk manufactured in this colony between the 1st day of July, 1901, and the 30th day of June, 1902, subject to the following provisions:—

1. Part-payments of the bonus may be made with respect to each calendar month during the above-mentioned period. Applications for such payments must be made in writing and forwarded so as to reach the Secretary for Agriculture within fourteen days after the end of the month with respect to which the claim is made, and must be accompanied by a statutory declaration (for form see Schedule) to the effect that the conditions of these regulations have been duly complied with.

2. The bonus will be allotted in strict order of priority of receipt of such applications and declarations.

3. The bonus will only be granted on good sound marketable milk of the fair average quality of the condensed milk manufactured by the applicant during the period for which the bonus is available.

4. The milk must be either (a) long-keeping unsweetened condensed milk, made from normal full-cream milk, and containing at least 10 per cent. of butter-fat, with no added preservative, or (b) long-keeping sweetened condensed milk made from normal full-cream milk, and containing not less than 10 per cent. of butter-fat, with no added preservative other than pure cane-sugar.

5. No application for payment of bonus will be entertained unless the manufacturers have given the department an opportunity to take samples whenever it so desires from the milk manufactured during the period with respect to which the claim is made, nor unless satisfactory proof is given to the said Secretary as to the quantity of condensed milk manufactured in terms of these conditions, and generally in relation to all matters affecting such claim.

6. The department reserves to itself the right to refuse to grant any bonus on any condensed milk which does not appear to comply with the above regulations.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

SCHEDULE.

I, __, of __, secretary or manager of __, do solemnly and sincerely declare, in regard to __ lb. of condensed milk manufactured by __ during the month of __, 190____, and in respect to which a part-payment of the bonus offered by the New Zealand Government for the encouragement of the manufacture of condensed milk in New Zealand is claimed, that the manufacture of the said milk complies with the whole of the conditions under which the bonus is offered, which conditions are published in the New Zealand Gazette of June, 1901. And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

[Signature.]

Declared at __, this __ day of __, one thousand nine hundred and __, before me—
Justice of the Peace, Solicitor, or Notary Public.

Bonus on Mineral Oil produced from Shale obtained in New Zealand.—Further Extension of Time.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 25th March, 1901.

THE time for notifying intention to claim the under-mentioned bonus, and for making such claim, has been further extended as follows:—

Notice of intention to claim the bonus must be given in writing to the Colonial Secretary not later than the 30th June, 1901.

The claim must be made before the 31st December, 1901.

J. G. WARD,
Colonial Secretary.

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.

Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.

Mines Office,
Wellington, 7th June, 1900.

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 (100,000 lb.) 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, 1903, and the remaining two-thirds on or before the 31st March, 1904.

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.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

Civil Service Senior Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 6th March, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that, for the Civil Service Senior Examination of January, 1902, candidates may read “The Tempest” as an alternative to “King Lear,” one of the special books already prescribed for the examination. The examination papers will contain alternative questions on these two plays, in addition to questions on the other work set.

W. C. WALKER.

Notice of Vesting of Lands in the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have, for the purposes of “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894,” made due inquiries with respect to the lands described in the Schedule hereunder written, and the owners thereof respectively, and have, in respect of the said lands, given the notices prescribed by section 4 of the said Act, and have in all respects complied with the provisions of the said section: And whereas I have not thereby ascertained who the owners are or owner is, and believe that such owners respectively are not in the colony, nor has such owner or owners established his or their title to the said lands, or either parcel thereof, as required by the said Act: I hereby give notice that the said lands are, under and by virtue of the said Act, vested in me, as the Public Trustee as aforesaid, as from the date of the publication hereof, and will be administered under the said Act, the value of the said lands being in all, as estimated by the Public Trustee, less than £100.

Dated at Wellington, this 15th day of June, 1901.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

All that parcel of land, containing 1 rood, more or less, situate in the Township of Leithfield, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, being Lot 66 of Rural Section No. 1961.

Also, all that parcel of land, containing 1 rood, more or less, situate in the aforesaid township, being Lot 74 of said Rural Section No. 1961.