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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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No. 42. An Act to consolidate and amend the Law relating to the Inspection of Machinery.
No. 43. An Act to amend the Law relating to Accident Insurance Companies.
No. 44. An Act to make Further Provision for the Acquisition of a Site for the Victoria College.
No. 45. An Act to establish a Superannuation Fund in connection with the Government Railways Department.
No. 46. An Act to amend “The Poisons Importation and Carriage Act, 1895.”
No. 47. An Act to amend “The Inebriates’ Institutions Act, 1898.”
No. 48. An Act to amend “The Pharmacy Act, 1898.”
No. 49. An Act to give Statutory Sanction to the Change of Name of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in New Zealand.
No. 50. An Act to amend “The Legislative Council Act, 1891.”
No. 51. An Act to amend “The Companies Act, 1901.”
No. 52. An Act to make certain Provision in Satisfaction of the Grievances of Debenture-holders and Shareholders of the New Zealand Midland Railway Company (Limited).
No. 53. An Act to authorise the Construction of certain Railways.
No. 55. An Act to amend “The Factories Act, 1901.”
No. 56. An Act to amend the Laws relating to Native and Maori Lands.
No. 57. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Width of Main Streets in Towns.
No. 58. An Act to amend “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885.”
No. 59. An Act to amend “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900.”
No. 60. An Act to amend the Law relating to Public Health.
No. 61. An Act to amend “The Workers’ Compensation for Accidents Act, 1900.”
No. 62. An Act to appropriate and apply certain Sums of Money out of the Consolidated Fund, the Public Works Fund, and other Accounts to the Services of the Year ending the Thirty-first Day of March, One thousand nine hundred and three, and to appropriate the Supplies granted in this Present Session.

Local Acts.

No. 1. An Act to empower the University of Otago and Others to renounce a Legacy bequeathed by the Will of the late Dr. Frederick Jeffcoat, of Dunedin, deceased.
No. 2. An Act to require the Owners of Lands lying adjacent to Public Streets widened and the Owners of Lands in the Neighbourhood of Public Streets made by the Hawera Borough Council to bear Part of the Cost of such Widening and Making as aforesaid.
No. 3. An Act to rectify an Error in a Special Order of the Council of the County of Hawke’s Bay, made on the Twenty-fifth Day of January, One thousand nine hundred, in pursuance of “The Government Loans to Local Bodies Act Amendment Act, 1899.”
No. 4. An Act to further amend the Christchurch District Drainage Acts.
No. 5. An Act to enable the Trustees of the Masterton Trust Lands Trust to exchange certain Lands with the Crown, and to vest certain Lands in His Majesty the King.
No. 6. An Act to authorise the Wellington Harbour Board to borrow certain Moneys, and to increase the Borrowing-powers of the Board in certain Respects.
No. 7. An Act to provide for the Closing of certain Roads in the Dunedin Town Belt, and for regulating the Roads therein.
No. 8. An Act to provide for the Readjustment of the Boundaries of the Road Districts within the Egmont County and other Adjoining Counties.
No. 9. An Act to change the Purpose of a Reserve in the Borough of Balclutha, to validate Leases thereof, and to empower the Council of the said Borough to sell a Town-hall Site Reserve.
No. 10. An Act to require the Owners of Land lying adjacent to Public Streets widened by the Masterton Borough Council to bear Part of the Costs of the Execution of the Works.
No. 11. An Act to empower the Pahiatua County Council to sell certain Portions of the Main Road Reserve in the County of Pahiatua.
No. 12. An Act to facilitate the Construction, Administration, and Working of Tramways in and for the City of Christchurch and its Suburbs.
No. 13. An Act to authorise the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Christchurch to obtain Power for Electric Lighting and other Purposes.
No. 14. An Act to expedite the Establishment of the Dilworth Ulster Institute, and to confer upon the Trustees of the Will of the late James Dilworth further Powers for the Purpose of enabling them to carry out more effectively the Trusts of the said Will.
No. 15. An Act to amend “The Dunedin District Drainage and Sewerage Act, 1900.”

No. 16. An Act to authorise the Grant to the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Invercargill of certain Parts of the New River Harbour, and to empower the said Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Invercargill, by their Council, to reclaim the said Lands from the Waters of the said Harbour, and to lease the said Lands for Fourteen Years upon such Terms and Conditions as they shall think fit, and also to authorise the said Council, in order to defray the Cost of such Reclamation, to raise by way of Special Loan the Sum of Fifteen Thousand Pounds, and for other Purposes.
No. 17. An Act to amend the Constitution of the Bluff Harbour Board, and to provide for the Representation of the Boroughs of Gore and Mataura thereon.
No. 18. An Act to empower the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Invercargill to exchange Section No. 15 of Block No. LXXI. in the Town of Invercargill for Section No. 10 of Block IX. in the same Town.
No. 19. An Act to constitute the Waimarino County.
No. 20. An Act to amend “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885.”
No. 21. An Act to alter the Boundaries of the Oxford and Cust Road Districts, in the County of Ashley, so as to include in Oxford Road District and to give to the Oxford Road Board the control of the Main Drain of the River Cust, and for other Purposes relating to such Drain.
No. 22. An Act to constitute a Harbour Board for the Port of Waikokopu.
No. 23. An Act to constitute the Weber County.
No. 24. An Act to make certain Alterations in Streets in the City of Nelson.
No. 25. An Act to alter the Purpose of a Reserve vested in the Christchurch City Council.
No. 26. An Act to enable the Christchurch City Council to pay each of them the late Town Clerk and the late Assistant Town Clerk a Sum of Money by Way of Retiring-allowance.
No. 27. An Act to constitute the Mount Herbert County.
No. 28. An Act to empower the Bluff Harbour Board to reclaim from the Waters of the Bluff Harbour Part of the Foreshore of the said Harbour, and to lease the Lands so reclaimed, and to borrow the Sum of Fifty Thousand Pounds, and for other Purposes.
No. 29. An Act to confer Leasing-powers on the Greymouth Harbour Board.
No. 30. An Act to amend “The Tauranga Educational Endowment Reserves Act, 1896.”

Private Act.

No. 1. An Act to enable the Hawera County Electric Company (Limited) to supply and use Electrical Energy for Lighting and Power Purposes within the Borough of Hawera and the Surrounding Districts.

I have, &c.
(For the Secretary of State),
ONSLow.

Governor the Right Hon. the Earl of Ranfurly,
G.C.M.G., &c.

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.