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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 69

Government Observatory.

METEOROLOGICAL Observations, Wellington, for the month of June, 1901. Altitude above the sea, 140 ft. Observations taken at 9.30 a.m.

• Means, &c. † Same month previous year.

NOTE.—Early part of month generally fine with occasional showers, wind chiefly N.W. and moderate; latter part showery with prevailing S. wind and cold weather. Maximum rainfall on 17th, 0·95 in.; thunder on 16th, 17th, and 18th; hail on 16th; fog on 14th and 15th. Maximum temperature in shade, 68°; minimum, 32°. Mean temperature dew-point, 43·1°; mean humidity, 74. Slight earthquake on 6th, at 1.25 p.m.

R. B. GORE, Observer.

Bonus for the Encouragement of the Manufacture of Condensed Milk in New Zealand.—Notice No. 644.

Department of Agriculture,
Head Office, Wellington, 17th June, 1901.

A BONUS for the encouragement of the manufacture of condensed milk in New Zealand is offered under the following conditions.

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.

Crown Lands Notices.

Village-homestead Allotment, Otago, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 16th July, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that the under-mentioned village-homestead allotment will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity at this office on Wednesday, the 2nd September, 1901.

If more than one application is received for the allotment on the same day the order of selection shall be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m., at the District Lands and Survey Office, Dunedin.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—TUAPEKA COUNTY.

Open land; good soil; well watered. Situated one mile from Heriot Railway-station by good road.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF LEASE.

1. THE land described above is first-class land, and is a village-homestead allotment, open for selection on lease in perpetuity under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892” (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”).

2. The day on which the land shall be open for selection shall be Wednesday, the 2nd day of September, 1901.

3. The rental stated above shall be the price at which the land shall be open for selection.

4. Applications for a lease shall be made in manner as provided in Part I. of the said Act, and all such applications shall be made to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, Dunedin; and a lease will be issued in accordance with the provisions of Part I. aforesaid.

5. Each applicant shall state his or her residence, occupation, and condition in life (namely, whether married or