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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 58

Madras, dated the 3rd ultimo, that the proposed alteration in the light at Santopilli from a white fixed to a group-flashing light, giving two flashes every ten seconds, is postponed, and that further notice will be given of the date on which the new group-flashing light will be exhibited.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Notice to Mariners No. 47 of 1903.

Marine Department,
Wellington, 11th July, 1903.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 31 of 1903, issued by this Department on the 20th April last, the following notice, received from the Presidency Port Officer, Madras, is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES.

INDIA—EAST COAST—VIZAGAPATAM.

Intended Light at Vizagapatam postponed.

It is hereby notified for the information of mariners that the exhibition of a light at Vizagapatam, referred to in this office Notices Nos. 7 and 19 of 1903, is postponed.

Further notice will be given of the date on which the light will be exhibited.

T. H. BAKER,
For Presidency Port Officer.

Presidency Port Office,
Madras, 3rd June, 1903.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block IX., Waimea Survey District, for a Rifle Range.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” to execute a certain public work, to wit, the formation of a rifle range in Block IX., Waimea Survey District, and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the Public Works Office at Nelson, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing within forty days from the first publication of this notice to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

THE parcels of land mentioned hereunder :—

All in the Land District of Nelson; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 20394, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured neutral tint and pink.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this tenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and three.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

Authorising the Laying-off of May Street, Town of Whenuahau, of a Width of 66 ft.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 10th July, 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 May Street, in the Town of Whenuahau, Wellington 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.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds in the Avondale Road District.—Notice No. 793.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 14th July, 1903.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Avondale Road Board has by special order declared Bathurst burr, broom, giant burdock, gorse, hakea, and ragwort or ragweed to be noxious weeds within the meaning of “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” in the district under its jurisdiction.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

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.

Agency of the Life Branch opened at Apiti.

Government Insurance Department,
Wellington, 10th July, 1903.

AN agency of the Life Branch of the above Department will be opened at

The Post-office, Apiti,

as from the 20th July, 1903.

J. H. RICHARDSON,
Commissioner.

Notice of Appointment of Members and Election of Chairman of the Board of Conciliation for the Nelson Industrial District.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Amendment Act, 1901,” I, Edward Tregear, Registrar of Industrial Unions under the Act, do hereby notify that

WILLIAM THORNTON BOND, of Nelson, Printer,
ROBERT HUNTER, of Nelson, Watchmaker,

representing employers, and

JOHN NEWTON EASEDALE, of Nelson, Boilermaker,
ROBERT HENDERSON SIMPSON, of Nelson, Carpenter and Joiner,

representing employees, have been duly appointed as members, and

WALTER HILL, of Nelson, Commercial Traveller,

has been duly elected as Chairman, of the Board of Conciliation in and for the Nelson Industrial District.

Dated at Wellington, this 14th day of July, 1903.

EDWARD TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.