JUNE 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1345

Authorising the Laying-off of the Main Streets in the Town
of Collingwood Extension No. 2, Canterbury Land District, of a Width of 66 ft.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 27th May, 1903.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 2 of “The Towns Main Streets Act, 1902,” I, Thomas Young Duncan, Minister of Lands, do hereby authorise the laying-off of the main streets in the Town of Collingwood Extension No. 2, Canterbury Land District, of a width of 66 ft., instead of 99 ft. as prescribed by section 17 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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.

Sale of Leases of Maori Land in Ohotu Block, under “The Maori Lands Administration Act, 1900,” and its Amendments, and Regulations made thereunder.

Aotea Maori Council Office, Whanganui.

TENDERS enclosed in sealed envelopes addressed to the President, Aotea Maori Council, Whanganui, and indorsed “Tenders for Section , Block , District, will be received up to 4 p.m. on Monday, the 15th June, 1903, for the leases of the undermentioned Maori lands, for a term of twenty-one years, with right of renewal for a further term of twenty-one years. In the event of ballots being necessary, they will be held at the office of the Aotea Maori Council, Whanganui, on the 17th June, 1903, at 11.30 a.m. If the sections be not leased on the 15th June, 1903, they will remain open for lease until further notice at the upset ground-rentals noted below.

OHOTU BLOCK.—WAIMARINO COUNTY.

Kariol Survey District.

Ngamatea Survey District.

Tauakira Survey District.

Makotuku Survey District.

Small Grazing-run.

Tauakira Survey District.

NOTE.—All the above sections are offered subject to amendment of areas and rentals on final survey.

LOCALITY AND GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE OHOTU BLOCK.

This block, which comprises an aggregate area of 57,455 acres, subdivided into seventy-one sections ranging from 168 acres to 3,530 acres, is situated on the Left Bank of the Whanganui River, about forty-five miles from Whanganui and about six miles south of the Raetihi Township.

The access to the western portion of the block is by river-steamer up the Whanganui River for a distance of about forty-five miles, thence by unformed surveyed roads to the different sections.