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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 93

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”
(Signature.)
Declared at __, this __ day of __, 190, before me— ____, Justice of the Peace [or Solicitor, or Notary Public].
[Here affix and cancel a stamp at 2s. 6d.]
[NOTE.—The words relating to last year’s subsidy and to free admission may be struck out if they are not applicable. The words in brackets are not part of the form, but indicate matter to be inserted or substituted.]
Copies of the form of application may be obtained from the Secretary for Education, Wellington, and from the Secretary of any Education Board.
R. J. SEDDON.

Assistant in Biological and Horticultural Division of Department of Agriculture wanted. —Notice No. 840.

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

APPLICATIONS are requested for the position of Assistant in the Biological and Horticultural Division of this Department. Applicants must have some knowledge of horticulture, entomology, and fungus diseases affecting plants; also of editorial work.
Salary at the rate of £175 per annum.
Applications, accompanied by testimonials, will be received up to the 9th January, 1904.
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 Printing and Stationery Offices to be closed from the 21st December, 1903, to the 2nd January, 1904.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 7th December, 1903.

THE Government Printing and Stationery Offices, Wellington, will be closed from Monday, the 21st December, 1903, until Saturday, the 2nd January, 1904, both days inclusive.
HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

“The Companies Act, 1903.”—Striking Companies off Register.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of subsection (4) of section 265 of the above Act, that the companies enumerated in the Schedule hereunder have been struck off the Register of Joint-stock Companies for the District of Otago.

SCHEDULE.
Alpine Consols Gold-dredging Company (Limited).
Big Beach Hydraulic Sluicing Company (Limited).
Central Electric Gold-dredging Company (Limited).
First Chance Gold-dredging Company (Limited).
Gibbston Gold-dredging Company (Limited).
Golden Glen Gold-dredging Company (Limited).
Halfway House Gold-dredging Company (Limited).
Lories Australasian Window Fasteners (Limited).
New Gibbston Gold-dredging Company (Limited).
Upper Clutha Gold-dredging Company (Limited).
Upper Magnetic Gold-dredging Company (Limited).
Vincent Extended Gold-dredging Company (Limited).
Dated at Dunedin, this 2nd day of December, 1903.
P. C. CORLISS,
Assistant Registrar of Joint-stock Companies.

Certain Lands in the County of Southland declared free from Swine Fever.—Notice No. 839.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 9th December, 1903.

IT having been reported to me that the disease known as swine-fever has ceased to exist on Allotment Part 2, Edendale Estate, containing 28 acres, and on Sections 10 and 12, Block VIII., Township of Mataura, I hereby revoke the declaration, made in accordance with section 14, subsection 4, of “The Stock Act, 1893,” by me on 11th November, 1901, and published in the Gazette of 14th idem, to the effect that the said lands were an infected place from which no swine, carcase, or any portion thereof, or any fodder or fitting, should be removed except under the direction of an Inspector of Stock, and the said lands are hereby released accordingly.
JOHN D. RITCHIE,
Chief Inspector of Stock.

Government Observatory.

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

• Means. &c. † Same month previous year.

NOTE.—The first and last parts of the month were very warm and fine. The middle was marked by heavy rains, 3·08 in. falling on three days. The winds throughout were light and variable. Earthquake on 11th, at 6.51 a.m., direction E.-W. Prevailing wind N.W. Maximum temperature in shade, 79·5°; minimum, 38·2°. Mean temperature of dew-point, 51·4°; mean humidity (saturation=100), 76.
CUTHBERT FREYBERG,
Acting Observer.