1796
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 64

Establishment of an Abattoir for the City of Christchurch and the Boroughs of New Brighton, Sumner, and Woolston in common.—Notice No. 796.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 10th August, 1903.

IT is hereby notified, in terms of subsection (3) of section 16 of “The Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1900,” that an abattoir has been established at Sockburn, of which the Christchurch City Council is the controlling authority, and that such abattoir has been established to be used in common for the districts under the jurisdiction of the Christchurch City Council and the Borough Councils of New Brighton, Sumner, and Woolston respectively.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds in the Waitotara County.—Notice No. 798.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 11th August, 1903.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Waitotara County Council has by special order declared pennyroyal and ragwort 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.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds in the Counties of Fiord, Kawhia, Marlborough, Manukau, Sounds, Taupo East, and Taupo West.—Notice No. 799.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 10th August, 1903.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” I, Thomas Young Duncan, Minister for Agriculture, do hereby declare that in all such portions of the colony as are specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto the plants enumerated in the second column of the said Schedule shall be “noxious weeds” within the meaning of the above-mentioned Act.

SCHEDULE.

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.

Government Observatory.

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

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

Note.—A cold and disagreeable month, foggy towards the end. Rainfall considerably above the average; maximum fall on 12th, 2·95 in. Prevailing wind, north-west. Maximum temperature in shade, 60°; minimum, 34°. Mean temperature of dew-point, 40·6°; mean humidity, 79°.

A. H. GORE,
Acting Observer.

“The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900.”—Notice of Cancellation of Registry.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 6th August, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application in that behalf made to me by the Wellington Grocers’ Industrial Union of Employers, registered No. 333, situated at Wellington, the registration of that industrial union will be cancelled at the expiration of six weeks from date hereof unless within the six weeks specified proceedings be commenced by a member or other person interested in or having some claim on the funds of the industrial union to set aside such cancellation, and the same is set aside accordingly.

EDWARD TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.