June 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1443

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.

Lost License.

Office of the Surveyors’ Board,
Government Buildings,
Wellington, 18th June, 1903.

IT is hereby notified that a duplicate license has been issued to the following surveyor by the Surveyors’ Board, as the original license has been lost.

Surveyor. Address
WARNER, HORATIO ALFRED .. .. Auckland.
C. E. ADAMS,
Secretary, Surveyors’ Board.

Surveyors licensed.

Office of the Surveyors’ Board,
Government Buildings,
Wellington, 18th June, 1903.

IT is hereby notified that licenses under “The New Zealand Institute of Surveyors and Board of Examiners Act, 1900,” have been issued to the following surveyors by the Surveyors’ Board:—

Surveyors. Address.
KING, JOHN HENRY RICHARD .. .. Melbourne.
MUIR, ROBERT HENRY .. .. .. Auckland.
THOMSON, JAMES EDWARD .. .. Wellington.
C. E. ADAMS,
Secretary, Surveyors’ Board.

Government Life Insurance Department.—Agency opened at Karamea.

Government Life Insurance Department,
Wellington, 20th June, 1903.

AN agency of the above Department will be opened at The Post-office, Karamea,
as from the 6th July, 1903.

J. H. RICHARDSON,
Commissioner.

Notice published pursuant to the Provisions of Section 15 of “The Public Trust Office Consolidation Act, 1894.”

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 23rd June, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken out administration, the Public Trustee has filed in the office of the Supreme Court at Wellington an election to administer the several intestate estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations, so far as known, are hereunder respectively set forth, their gross properties being estimated not to exceed £250 in each case.

Thomas Hennelly, late of Ngahauranga, in the Provincial District of Wellington, labourer. Filed on the 12th day of June, 1903.

John Frederick Aherns, late of Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland, pork-butcher. Filed on the 18th day of June, 1903.

Alexander McMinn Clegg, late of Arrowtown, in the Provincial District of Otago, watchmaker. Filed on the 18th day of June, 1903.

Mary Gertrude Chapman, late of Kurow, in the Provincial District of Otago, minor. Filed on the 19th day of June, 1903.

Robert Wilson, late of Queenstown, in the Provincial District of Otago, caretaker. Filed on the 20th day of June, 1903.

A. A. K. DUNCAN,
Deputy Public Trustee.

Results of Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd June, 1903.

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.

Kaurihohore Road District, County of Whangarei:
Norman McKenzie.
John McLeod.
John Richard McInnes.

Waikiekie Road District, County of Whangarei:
George Hilford.
Henry Hartnell.
William Hartnell.

Matakana East Road District, County of Rodney:
Archibald Christian.
James E. Matthew.
Charles W. Greenwood.

Paparata Road District, County of Manukau:
George Balme.
Thomas Masefield.
Albert Brownhill.

Mauku Road District, County of Manukau:
Joseph Clark.
Samuel Elliott Pilgrim.
William Lashford West.

Huntly Road District, County of Waikato:
John Powell Bailey.
Arthur Neil.
E. H. Hubbard.

Whangamarino Road District, County of Waikato:
Alexander McRae.
P. L. Guillard.
F. T. Martin.
Charles Vincent.

Cambridge Road District, County of Waikato:
Jared Allwill.

Tamahere Road District, County of Waikato:
Lewis Ben Ewen.
Andrew Ramsay.

Kirikiriroa Road District, County of Waikato:
John Gordon.
John Primrose.

Whenuakura-Waitotara Road District, County of Patea:
No. 1 Ward—
Manley H. Wybourne.
No. 2 Ward—
Duncan McDonald.
No. 3 Ward—
Isaac Lupton.

Waimate Road District, County of Hawera:
Thomas Andrew Bridge.
William Borrie.
Walter Dutton Powdrell.
Arthur Mortleman.

Mangorei Road District, County of Taranaki:
John Brown.
Charles Edwin Gledhill.

Upper Moutere Road District, County of Waimea:
Otto Bensemann.
John Diedrich Beuke.
William Wilkens.

Malvern Road District, County of Selwyn:
Frederick Benham.
William Edmund Foster.
George Rutherford.

East Malvern Road District, County of Selwyn:
Alexander Fraser.
Archibald McNae.
Richard Scarlett.