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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 19

Appointment of Persons to inspect Certificates of Machinery and Boilers, and also Certificates of Persons in Charge of such Machinery and Boilers.

Inspection of Machinery Department,
Wellington, 11th March, 1903.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by the fifty-fifth section of “The Inspection of Machinery Act, 1902,” I, William Hall-Jones, the Minister for the time being having charge of the Inspection of Machinery Department, do hereby appoint the persons hereunder mentioned to enter upon any premises in which machinery is working to inspect the certificate in respect of the machinery and boilers respectively working upon such premises, and to inspect the certificate of the person in charge of such machinery or boiler.

The persons appointed are as follows:—

Samuel Thompson, of Dargaville, Constable, New Zealand Police Force.

Robert Darby, of Thames, Sergeant, New Zealand Police Force.

James Treanor, of Napier, Sergeant, New Zealand Police Force.

William Henry Ryan, of Stratford, Constable, New Zealand Police Force.

James O’Malley, of Masterton, Sergeant, New Zealand Police Force.

Martin Dudley Stagpoole, of Palmerston North, Sergeant, New Zealand Police Force.

Paul Shirley, of Greymouth, Sergeant, New Zealand Police Force.

John Barlow, of Ashburton, Sergeant, New Zealand Police Force.

Thomas King, of Oamaru, Sergeant, New Zealand Police Force.

Patrick Bowman, of Lawrence, Sergeant, New Zealand Police Force.

John Fleming, of Gore, Sergeant, New Zealand Police Force.

Patrick Joyce, of Otatau, Constable, New Zealand Police Force.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister of Marine, &c.

Notice to Imprestees under “The Public Revenues Act, 1891.”

The Treasury,
Wellington, 25th February, 1903.

EVERY officer holding advances of public money is hereby required to pay to the Public Account, at the nearest branch of the Bank of New Zealand, the unexpended balance in his hand on or before Tuesday, the 31st March proximo, and forthwith to transmit to the Treasury at Wellington the bank receipt for such repayment, together with an account of his expenditure to the same date, as required by clause 4 of the Treasury Regulations.

As respects disbursements which officers may require to make immediately after the close of the financial year, requisitions for the amount required are to be made in such time as to enable them to reach Wellington not later than the 14th March, so that the requisite funds may be placed at the disposal of the officer on the 1st April or as soon after as possible.

R. J. SEDDON,
Colonial Treasurer.

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.

Officiating Ministers for 1903.—Notice No. 10.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 9th March, 1903.

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 names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

The Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend Charles Walter Carrington, M.A.

The Reverend John Alexander Rowan Wilkin.

Baptist Church.

The Reverend William Brinsley Nicholson.

GEO. DRURY,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Government Observatory.

METEOROLOGICAL Observations, Wellington, for the month of February, 1903. Altitude above the sea, 140 ft. Observations taken at 9.30 a.m.

• Means, &c.
  † Same month previous years.

NOTE.—A very fine dry month, the rainfall being far below the average; the maximum rainfall was recorded on the 1st, 0·50 in. Prevailing wind, N.W. Maximum temperature in shade, 78°; minimum, 43°. Mean temperature of dew-point, 53·5°; mean humidity, 77.

A. H. GORE,
Acting Observer