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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 18

Bonus for Treatment of Auriferous Black Sand.

Mines Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 14th November, 1901.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of £2,000 will be paid to any person who, before the 1st January, 1904, shall invent such appliances as will successfully save gold from black sands in New Zealand.

The bonus will be paid on compliance with the following conditions:—

1. The invention shall, in its main features, differ from all machinery and appliances at present in use for the saving of gold, whether coarse or fine.

2. It shall be readily transportable from place to place, and shall be capable of utilising local water for all its requirements.

3. The invention must be capable of treating not less than 30 cubic yards an hour of black sand or any coarser material up to a diameter of 4 in.; and it must be capable of treating such material profitably where there is not more than a value, in gold, of 3d. per cubic yard; not less than 80 per cent. of the gold contained in the material to be recovered by the machine.

4. No bonus to be paid until the invention has been continuously worked for not less than six months, and it shall, during that period, have treated not less than 100,000 cubic yards of material, working three shifts a day.

5. The bonus will be paid on the certificate of an officer that not less than twenty persons other than the applicant for the bonus are successfully working the invention.

6. Any person who receives the bonus shall not be allowed to take out patent rights in New Zealand for his invention.

JAMES McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Totara, Matai, and Maire Timber, Livingstone Township, for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 14th February, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the timber on the undermentioned Crown lands (about seventy-two trees, containing about 28,400 sup. ft. of timber, in Livingstone Township) will be offered for sale by public auction, in one lot, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Tuesday, the 15th April, 1902, at 2.30 p.m.

SCHEDULE.

SECTIONS 27, 32, AND PART OF 75, LIVINGSTONE TOWNSHIP.

Totara (Classes I. and III.): About eighteen trees, containing about 9,810 sup. ft.

Matai: About forty-seven trees, containing about 17,000 sup. ft.

Maire: About seven trees, containing about 1,590 sup. ft.

Total upset price, £27.

TERMS OF SALE.

The timber is offered subject to the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and of the timber regulations made thereunder.

The purchaser shall pay the purchase-money and £1 1s. license fee on the fall of the hammer.

The purchaser shall have the right to cut and remove the timber, as specified in Schedule, on Sections 27, 32, and eastern part of Section 75, Livingstone Township, as shown on plan.

The license will not include right to cut the timber on western portion of Section 75, which is to be conserved.

Plans containing full particulars may be obtained at the principal post-offices in the district and at this office.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Crown Land in Wellington Land District for Sale under Section 117 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 30th December, 1901.

IT is hereby notified, in pursuance of section 240 of “The Land Act, 1892,” that the undermentioned Crown land will be offered to the holder of adjoining land, under section 117 of “The Land Act, 1892,” on Wednesday, the 9th April, 1902.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.

J. W. A. MARCHANT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Southland Land District forfeited and surrendered.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 4th March, 1902.

IT is hereby notified that the leases or licenses of the undermentioned lands have been forfeited or the surrender accepted by resolutions of the Southland Land Board, and that the said lands have reverted to the Crown under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.