1454
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 54

MATAONGAONGA ROAD BOARD.

RESULT of poll taken upon the 7th day of June, 1902, upon a proposal to raise a special loan under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” for the purpose of forming and metalling and providing necessary culverts for the Hakeke, Tinirau, Mawae, and Mamaku Streets, Eastown Road, the portion of Ikamoana Avenue lying between Kepa Street and Nixon Street, the portion of Kepa Street lying between Tinirau Street and Ikamoana Avenue in Eastown, and Eastown Extension and Nixon Street which passes through Sections 63 and 64, Block I., Ikitara Survey District, Ikamoana Street, the portion of Clapham Street lying between Ikamoana Street and Morgan Street, and Morgan Street in Sedgebrook Township, and White Street in the Township of Ladysmith.

The sum it is proposed to borrow for the purpose is £1,000. It is proposed to pledge as security for such loan a special rate of ¼d. in the pound upon the rateable valuation of all rateable property of the Sedgebrook and Eastown Special Rating District, comprising the whole of that portion of the original Sedgebrook Estate which is bounded by the railway-line on the north-east, by Section 77, Block I., Ikitara Survey District, on the north, by the Wanganui River on the south-west, and No. 3 line of road on the east; said Section 77, Lots 1 to 19 of Section 78, Block I., Ikitara Survey District; Subdivision 31 of Sections 78 and 79, part of Subdivision 30 of the said Section 79, and Lots 1 to 7, Section 80, same survey district; and the whole of Eastown and Eastown Extension, and Lots 6, 7, 20, 24, 37, 38, and part of 39, Section 90, Block I., Ikitara Survey District; and part Lot 39 and Lots 40 and 41, Section 91, of same block: containing 642 acres (be the same a little more or less). Such special rate shall be an annual rate during the currency of such loan, being a period of forty-one years, or until the loan is fully paid off; and that such rate shall be payable half-yearly, on the 1st day of April and the 1st day of October in each and every year. The cost of raising the loan, and interest for the first year, will be paid out of the loan.

For the proposal .. .. .. 31 votes.
Against the proposal .. .. Nil.

I therefore hereby declare the proposal to be duly carried.
ROBERT NEILSON,
Chairman, Mataongaonga Road Board.

Notice to Mariners No. 45 of 1902.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 27th June, 1902.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Marine Department, Brisbane, Queensland, are published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

INNER ROUTE TO TORRES STRAITS.—BEACON ON TIH TIH REEF.
Referring to Notice to Mariners No. 2 of 1902, notice is hereby given that the beacon on Tih Tih Reef, reported to be down, has now been re-erected.

Chart affected: No. 2921. Australia Directory, Vol. ii.
JOHN MACKAY,
Acting Portmaster.
Marine Department, Brisbane,
2nd June, 1902.

DISCONTINUANCE OF TIDE SIGNALS, UPPER FLATS LIGHTSHIP, FITZROY RIVER.

THE improvements in this portion of the Fitzroy River having rendered tide signals no longer necessary, notice is hereby given that on and after 30th June they will not be exhibited from the lightship.

Chart affected: No. 363. Australia Directory, Vol. ii.
JOHN MACKAY,
Acting Portmaster.
Marine Department, Brisbane,
4th June, 1902.

DISCONTINUANCE OF PILOT SERVICE, INSKIP POINT.

NOTICE is hereby given that on and after the 30th instant the pilot service at Inskip Point will be discontinued.

Vessels leaving Brisbane and requiring the services of a pilot through Sandy Straits are requested to give notice to the Marine Department at least twenty-four hours before departure.

Vessels from the north are requested to give similar notice to the Harbour Office, Rockhampton or Townsville.

Chart affected: No. 1068. Australia Directory, Vol. ii.
JOHN MACKAY,
Acting Portmaster.
Marine Department, Brisbane,
5th June, 1902.

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.

JAS. McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

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.

JAS. McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.

Bonus for Plans for Cowshed.—Notice No. 703.

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.