1038
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 35

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.

Small Grazing-runs, Wellington Land District, open for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 7th May, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned small grazing-runs will be open for lease on application, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Tuesday, the 24th June, 1902, at the half-yearly rentals noted below. In case of more than one application for the same run on the same day, priority of selection will be decided by ballot on the following day, at 11 a.m., at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—WANGANUI COUNTY.—KAITIEKE SURVEY DISTRICT.

Kaitieke Block.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Epuni Hamlet, Wellington, open for Selection on Lease in Perpetuity.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 7th May, 1902.

THE undermentioned land will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at the District Lands and Survey Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, 11th June, 1902. In the event of more than one application being received for the allotment on the same day, priority of selection shall be decided by ballot.

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—BELMONT SURVEY DISTRICT.—BOROUGH OF LOWER HUTT.—EPUNI HAMLET.

First-class Land.

This section, which has a frontage to the Middle Waiwetu Road, is first-class agricultural flat land, the soil being a rich alluvial loam about 3ft. in depth, all under cultivated grasses. The section is intersected and drained by a water-course, which is generally dry. The land is fenced on all boundaries, except the western, with wire fences, valued at £3 15s., which amount is included in the price of the land.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Land in Wellington Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Wellington, 7th May, 1902.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned land will be offered for sale by public auction at the Public Hall, Waverley, on Tuesday, the 24th June, 1902, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and section 131 of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894.”

SCHEDULE.

WELLINGTON LAND DISTRICT.—PATEA COUNTY.—WAIROA SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Land.

Weighted with £18 15s. for improvements.

This section is situated near the coast, about one mile north of the mouth of the Waitotara River. The access is from Momahaki Railway-station, which is about five miles distant from its north-west corner, by the extension south of the Okotuku Road, and thence by Durie Road. These roads are formed into a dray-track as far as the south-west corner of Section No. 12, near Trig. X; thence the track runs unformed over swarded sand-flats and sand-dunes.

The section comprises generally scrubby sand-flats and small sand-dunes, with a few patches of partially swampy land, and a further area of bare sand on which has been sown marram grass. The soil is sand, with occasional patches of free sandy loam, with intermittent beds of iron-sand, resting on sand formation, with a growth of stunted manuka, tumatakuru, fern, toetoe, and a little flax and raupo, and surface-sown in places between with English and native grasses. The section is indifferently watered. The elevation ranges from about 50ft. to 70ft. above sea-level. The general quality of the section is scrubby waste sand.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.