2072
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 74

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.

Results of Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th September, 1902.

THE following notices of the election of members of Road Boards have been received at this office, and are published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Awhitu Road District, County of Manukau:
Walter J. Holmes.
John Irwin.
Papatoitoi Road District, County of Manukau:
Samuel Hodge.
Katikati Road District, County of Tauranga:
Charles A. J. Fletcher.

Officiating Ministers for 1902.—Notice No. 32.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 10th September, 1902.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand passed in the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

The Salvation Army.
Gilmour, James, Lieutenant-Colonel.

GEO. DRURY,
Deputy Registrar-General.

By-laws of the Tauranga District Maori Council, under “The Maori Councils Act, 1900,” approved.

Native Minister’s Office,
Wellington, 12th September, 1902.

IT is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor has this day been pleased to approve of the following by-laws made by the Maori Council of the Tauranga Maori District, under the provisions of section sixteen of “The Maori Councils Act, 1900,” as set out in the Schedule hereto.

J. CARROLL,
Minister of Native Affairs.

Approved.
RANFURLY, Governor.

SCHEDULE.

THE MAORI COUNCIL OF THE TAURANGA MAORI DISTRICT.

BY-LAWS.

THE Maori Council of the Tauranga Maori District, constituted under “The Maori Councils Act, 1900,” hereby makes the following by-laws, under and by virtue of the said Act, such by-laws to come into operation upon approval thereof by the Governor, and the publication of the same in the Gazette and Kahiti:—

Interpretation.

In these by-laws, except when inconsistent with the context, or when otherwise expressly provided, the following expressions shall have the meanings attached thereto:—

“The said Act” means “The Maori Councils Act, 1900.”

“The Council” means the Maori Council of the Tauranga Maori District, constituted under the said Act.

“Committee” or “Village Committee” means the Village Committee or Komiti Marae of a Maori kainga, village, or pa, appointed by the Maori Council under the provisions of the said Act.

“District” means the Tauranga Maori District, proclaimed by the Governor under the said Act by Proclamation dated the 15th day of February, 1902.

“Native township” means a township constituted under “The Native Townships Act, 1895.”

“Prescribed” means prescribed by rules or regulations made under the said Act or by these by-laws.

(A.) Health and Personal Convenience.
(Section 16, Subsection 1.)

1. Human corpses shall be buried, if the death occurs between the 15th day of March and the 15th day of September (both days inclusive) in any year, within four days after death; and, if the death occurs between the 16th day of September and the 14th day of March of the following year (both days inclusive), within three days after death, unless the Council shall otherwise direct, or unless it is otherwise provided for by any Act of the General Assembly.

2. It shall be the duty of the nearest relatives of the deceased, or, in their absence, of the owner or occupier of the house or premises wherein deceased died, to comply with the provisions of the last preceding by-law; and all or any of them shall be deemed to be guilty of a breach thereof as the Council may deem fit, and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one pound.

3. No human corpse shall be buried, except with the permission of the Council, in any place other than a burial-ground recognised by the inhabitants of a Maori kainga, or reserved or set apart by them or some duly constituted authority as a burial-ground.

4. No human corpse shall be permitted to lie in state in front of any meeting-house or in the courtyard (marae) thereof, but may lie in state at some other spot in the vicinity that may be indicated by the Chairman of the Village Committee or the member of Council for the riding.

5. The Council may, by notice in writing in Form A in the Schedule hereto, require the owner or occupier of any house within a kainga (other than cooking-houses, kautas, and outbuildings) which shall be erected after the coming into operation of these by-laws to construct or provide a couch or raised bedstead in such house at least 1ft. above the ground; and any person who, after service of such notice, shall refuse or neglect within the time specified in such notice to comply with the same shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one pound.

(B.) Cleansing Houses.
(Section 16, Subsection 2.)

6. The Chairman of the Council, or any person duly authorised by the Council in that behalf, may by notice in writing direct the owner or occupier of any house or other building in a dirty and unwholesome state to clean or cause the same to be cleaned within a time to be specified in such notice, which may be in Form B in the Schedule hereto. And if