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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 31

the rateable properties included in Class II. of the said drainage district, and doth direct that such special rates respectively shall be annual-recurring rates, and shall be levied for a period of twenty-six years, or until the said loan shall be fully repaid, and shall be made and levied under “The Rating Act, 1894,” and shall be payable half-yearly on the 1st day of February and the 1st day of August in each year.

Made by the Council of the County of Selwyn, at the Chambers of the said Council, this 29th day of January, 1902.

RICH'D. WESTENRA,
Chairman of the County.

W. JAMESON,
County Clerk.

The resolution to make this special order was adopted at a special meeting of the Council held the 27th November, 1901, and was confirmed at a meeting of the said Council held the 29th January, 1902.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan, Parihaka Road Board, County of Taranaki.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 22nd April, 1902.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Parihaka Road Board, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

O. H. MILLS,
For Colonial Treasurer.

PARIHAKA ROAD BOARD.

IN accordance with clause 13, subclause (1), of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” I hereby give notice that at a poll taken on the 15th day of April, 1902, on the proposal to raise a loan of £3,500 to (1) pay off existing loan, (2) to drain, form, culvert, and metal the Ngariki Road, the result thereat was as follows:—

Votes recorded in favour of proposal, 13; votes recorded against the proposal, 3; informal votes, nil: majority in favour of proposal, 10.

The required number of votes (three-fifths) having been recorded in favour of proposal, I therefore declare the proposal to be carried.

EDWIN R. MORGAN,
Returning Officer.

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.

Lands in Windsor Park Settlement, Otago Land District, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Dunedin, 22nd April, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity at this office on Wednesday, the 28th day of May, 1902, under the provisions of “The Land for Settlements Consolidation Act, 1900,” and its amendments.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.—COUNTY OF WAITAKI.—AWAMOKO SURVEY DISTRICT.

Windsor Park Settlement.

GROUP A.—CLASSIFIED AS DAIRY FARMS.

Subdivision 1
(Part of Ngapara Block).

| 1A | VI. | 32 3 31 | 0 6 0 | 4 18 10 |
| 2A | " | 56 2 16 | 0 6 6 | 9 3 11 |
| 4A | " | 50 2 3 | 0 4 6 | 5 13 8 |
| 5A | " | 47 1 16 | 0 6 3 | 7 8 0 |
| 6A | " | 47 2 29 | 0 5 9 | 6 17 1 |
| 7A | " | 36 0 0 | 0 8 0 | 7 4 0 |
| 10A | VII. | 11 1 8 | 0 14 0 | 3 19 1 |
| 11A | " | 10 1 0 | 0 15 0 | 3 16 11 |
| 12A | " | 12 0 16 | 0 9 0 | 2 14 5 |
| 13A | " | 32 2 24 | 0 4 0 | 3 5 4 |
| 14A | " | 43 2 6 | 0 4 6 | 4 18 0 |
| 15A | " | 48 3 0 | 0 5 0 | 6 1 11 |

Subdivision 2
(Part of Windsor Block).

| 21A | IX. | 5 0 0 | 0 12 0 | 1 10 0 |
| 22A | " | 5 0 0 | 0 12 0 | 1 10 0 |
| 23A | " | 9 3 11 | 0 12 0 | 2 18 11 |

Subdivision 3
(Finn Valley Block).

| 33A | VIII. | 165 0 0 | 0 6 9 | 27 16 11 |
| 34A | " | 155 0 0 | 0 7 3 | 28 1 11 |
| 35A | " | 50 0 0 | 0 9 0 | 11 5 0 |
| 36A | " | 50 0 0 | 0 9 0 | 11 5 0 |
| 37A | " | 60 0 0 | 0 8 3 | 12 7 6 |
| 38A | " | 95 0 0 | 0 8 0 | 19 0 0 |

GROUP B.—CLASSIFIED AS ORDINARY FARMS.

Subdivision 4
(Part of Ngapara Block).

| 3A | VI. | 157 3 27 | 0 5 9 | 22 14 0 |
| 8A | " | 302 1 37 | 0 6 3 | 47 5 3 |
| 9A | VII. | 117 1 33 | 0 5 6 | 16 3 0 |
| 16A | " | 217 2 8 | 0 6 3 | 33 19 10 |
| 17A | " | 213 3 31 | 0 4 9 | { 25 8 2
| | | | | { 2 6 2* |

Subdivision 5
(Queen’s Flat Block).

| 18A | VII. | 276 2 26 | 0 8 1½ | 56 3 11 |
| 19A | " | 306 0 23 | 0 7 3 | 55 9 9 |

Subdivision 6
(Part of Windsor Block).

| 20A | IX. | 71 1 30 | 0 8 3 | 14 14 8 |
| 24A | " | 62 0 0 | 0 11 0 | 17 1 0 |
| 25A | " | 114 0 0 | 0 12 6 | 35 12 6 |
| 26A | " | 90 0 0 | 0 13 3 | 29 16 3 |
| 27A | " | 69 2 0 | 0 12 6 | 21 14 5 |
| 28A | " | 113 2 0 | 0 14 3 | { 40 8 8
| | | | | { 3 9 2† |
| 29A | " | 130 2 0 | 0 14 3 | 46 9 10 |
| 30A | " | 227 0 0 | 0 12 6 | { 70 18 9
| | | | | { 7 10 7‡ |
| 31A | " | 148 2 0 | 0 12 0 | 44 11 0 |
| 32A | " | 157 2 5 | 0 12 6 | 49 4 7 |

• Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £20, repayable in five years by half-yearly instalments of £2 6s. 2d.: total half-yearly payment, £27 14s. 4d.

† Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £40, repayable in seven years by half-yearly instalments of £3 9s. 2d.: total half-yearly payment, £43 17s. 10d.

‡ Interest and sinking fund on buildings valued at £193, repayable in twenty-one years by half-yearly instalments of £7 10s. 7d.: total half-yearly payment, £78 9s. 4d.

D. BARRON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.