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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 43

(Form 5, Reg. 13.)
APPLICATION FOR RENEWAL OR TRANSFER OF A LICENSE.
To the [local authority].
I, , of , hereby apply for a renewal [or transfer] of the license numbered [In the case of a transfer, add to , of ].
[Name, address, and occupation of proposed transferee.]
Dated this day of , 19 .
[Signature of applicant.]
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notice under Section 143 of “The Harbours Act, 1878.”
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RANFURLY, Governor.
WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto is required for a public work, to wit, the erection of a mobilisation store and other public buildings:
Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in me by section one hundred and forty-three of “The Harbours Act, 1878,” do hereby give notice to the Otago Harbour Board that possession of the said land will be taken on behalf of His Majesty for the purpose aforesaid on the tenth day of July next.
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SCHEDULE.
All that area of land, containing by admeasurement 1 rood 33·18 perches or thereby, being the complete sections numbered 26, 27, 28, and 29; Block LXIV., City of Dunedin, as the same are delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 19845, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon bordered red.
As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-seventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred and two.
WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

Notice of Intention to take Land for a Road through Section No. 257, Parish of Waikumete, Titirangi Survey District.
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NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a road through Section No. 257, Parish of Waikumete, Block III., Titirangi Survey District, and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken; and notice is further given that the plan of the said road and of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the Post-office, Waikumete, County of Waitemata, Auckland, and is there open for inspection. And notice is hereby given that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land shall, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington.
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SCHEDULE.
| Area. | Part of Section No. | Block. | Survey District. | Parish of | Plan marked | Coloured on Plan |
|-------|---------------------|--------|------------------|-----------|-----------|------------------|
| A. R. P. 3 2 5 | 257 | III. | Titirangi | Waikumete | S.G. 19244 | Red |
In the Auckland Land District; as the said area is delineated upon the plan marked as above stated, deposited in the Post-office, Waikumete, County of Waitemata, Auckland, in the Auckland Land District, and thereon coloured as above mentioned.
As witness my hand, at Wellington, this thirtieth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and two.
T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Bonus for Treatment of Auriferous Black Sand.
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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.
   JAS. McGOWAN,
   Minister of Mines.

Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.
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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.
   JAS. McGOWAN,
   Minister of Mines.

Bonus for Plans for Cowshed.—Notice No. 703.
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Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 21st May, 1902.
IT is hereby notified that a first prize of twenty guineas and a second prize of ten guineas are offered by the Department for the best plan, with complete specification, of a cowshed suitable to house fifty cows, with fodder-sheds and dairy; also a first prize of seven guineas and a second prize of three guineas for the best plan and specification of a silo for the same number of cows: all plans and specifications, whether awarded a prize or not, to become the property of the Government.
Packages containing plans and specifications entered for these competitions should be addressed to the Secretary for Agriculture, Wellington, and marked outside “Cowshed Competition” or “Silo Competition,” as the case may be, and forwarded so as to reach him by the 31st August, 1902.
The plans must be signed with a nom de plume, and must bear no indication as to the competitor’s name; the competitor’s signature and nom de plume must, however, be forwarded in a sealed envelope in the same package with the plans.
T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.