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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 25

"The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act, 1901."—Notice of Cancellation of Registry.

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

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to and in exercise of the powers in this behalf conferred upon me by section 20 of “The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act, 1901,” the registration of the Otago Fellmongers and Skinners’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered No. 185, situated at Green Island, will be cancelled at the expiration of six weeks from the date hereof unless within such period it is shown that such union has not ceased to exist.

EDWARD TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

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

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

NOTICE is hereby given that the registration of the Petone Shop-assistants’ Industrial Union of Workers, No. 257, situated at Petone, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

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.

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"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.

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Sittings of Royal Commission.

Auckland, 21st March, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Royal Commission appointed under section 18 of “The Native Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1901,” will open its sittings at Opotiki on Wednesday, the 9th April next. All persons having business before the Commission are required to be in attendance on that day.

H. G. SETH-SMITH,
Chairman.

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.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Fencourt Settlement, Auckland, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 8th March, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at this office, on Thursday, the 22nd day of May, 1902, under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and its amendments.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WAIKATO COUNTY.—CAMBRIDGE SURVEY DISTRICT.—FENCOURT SETTLEMENT.

Flat rolling downs, with some good alluvial drained swamp, in grass; fenced on three sides by a post-and-wire fence for about 230 chains. Bounded by the Cambridge-Maungakawa Road. Situated about three miles and a half from Cambridge and the cheese-factory. Value of fencing, £192; value of grass, £100.

GERHARD MUELLER,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.