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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 23

That, for the purpose of providing the interest and other charges on a loan of £110 for metalling main roads, authorised to be raised by the said Board under the provisions of “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act, 1886,” the Board do hereby make and levy a special rate of ½d. in the pound upon the rateable value of all the property within the Turanga Road District; that such rate shall be an annual-recurring rate for a period of twenty-six years, and shall be payable in two equal instalments, at the office of the said Board, on the 1st day of April and the 1st day of October of each and every year during the currency of the loan.

Passed by the Board on the 1st day of February, 1902.
Confirmed by the Board on the 8th day of March, 1902.
I hereby certify that the above special order was duly passed and confirmed in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”
L. H. WHITE,
Clerk, Turanga Road Board.
Turanga Creek, 8th March, 1902.

Special Order made by the Le Bon’s Bay Road Board, County of Akaroa.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 17th March, 1902.

THE following special order, made by the Le Bon’s Bay Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”
J. G. WARD.

SPECIAL ORDER.

THAT the Le Bon’s Bay Road Board adopt by special order that part of the Second Schedule of “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” declaring gorse and broom noxious weeds within the Road Board district.

I hereby certify that the above special order has been duly passed by the Board in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”
CHAS. BAILEY,
Clerk to Le Bon’s Bay Road Board.
Le Bon’s Bay Road Board Office,
10th March, 1902.

Notice to Imprestees under “The Public Revenues Act, 1891.”

The Treasury,
Wellington, 27th February, 1902.

EVERY officer holding advances of public money is hereby required to pay to the Public Account, at the nearest branch of the Bank of New Zealand, the unexpended balance in his hand on or before Thursday, the 27th March proximo, and forthwith to transmit to the Treasury at Wellington the bank receipt for such repayment, together with an account of his expenditure to the same date, as required by clause 4 of the Treasury Regulations.

As respects disbursements which officers may require to make immediately after the close of the financial year, requisitions for the amount required are to be made in such time as to enable them to reach Wellington not later than the 15th March, so that the requisite funds may be placed at the disposal of the officer on the 2nd April or as soon after as possible.

R. J. SEDDON,
Colonial Treasurer.

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.

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.

“The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900.”—
Notice of Cancellation of Registry.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 13th February, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application in that behalf made to me by “The Petone Shop-assistants’ Industrial Union of Workers,” registered No. 257, situated at Petone, the registration of that industrial union will be cancelled at the expiration of six weeks from the date hereof unless within the six weeks specified proceedings be commenced by a member or other person interested in or having some claim on the funds of the industrial union to set aside such cancellation, and the same is set aside accordingly.

EDWARD TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

“The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900.”—
Notice of Cancellation of Registry.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 27th February, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application in that behalf made to me by the Lyttelton Maritime and Wharf Labourers’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered No. 273, situated at Lyttelton, the registration of that industrial union will be cancelled at the expiration of six weeks from the date hereof unless within the six weeks specified proceedings be commenced by a member or other person interested in or having some claim on the funds of the industrial union to set aside such cancellation, and the same is set aside accordingly.

EDWARD TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

“The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900.”—
Notice of Cancellation of Registry.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 20th February, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application in that behalf made to me by the Boilermakers’ and Iron-ship Builders’ Society of Christchurch Industrial Union of Workmen, registered No. 12, situated at Christchurch, the registration of that industrial union will be cancelled at the expiration of six weeks from the date hereof unless within the six weeks specified proceedings be commenced by a member or other person interested in or having some claim on the funds of the industrial union to set aside such cancellation, and the same is set aside accordingly.

EDWARD TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.