July 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1633

Tenders.

Public Works Department,
Wellington, 5th July, 1905.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

MAKATOTE VIADUCT. — NORTH ISLAND MAIN TRUNK RAILWAY.
Alternative C.—All Concrete and Steel Work, erected complete, Steel Work manufactured in the Colony.

Accepted. £ s. d.
Anderson, J. and A., Christchurch .. 53,369 0 0

Declined.
McLean and Son, J., Auckland .. 55,141 3 0

Alternative A.—Steel Work erected complete, manufactured in the Colony.

Declined. £ s. d.
McLean and Son, J., Auckland .. 38,186 7 0

Alternative B.—Steel Work erected complete, imported ready for Erection.

Declined. £ s. d.
McLean and Son, J., Auckland .. 36,210 0 0
Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Company, Darlington, England .. 38,315 0 0
Head, Wrightson, and Co., Thornaby-on-Tees, England .. 43,639 0 0

Alternative D.—All Concrete and Steel Work, erected complete, Steel Work imported ready for Erection.

Declined. £ s. d.
McLean and Son, J., Auckland .. 53,123 1 0

Notice fixing Closing-hours of Shops in the Town District of Hunter ville.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the shops in the Town District of Hunter ville (not being one of the districts mentioned in section 3 of “The Shops and Offices Act, 1904”), has been forwarded to me, desiring that all shops in the town district shall be closed at 6 o’clock in the evening on four working-days of the week, at 9 o’clock in the evening on Saturdays (excepting on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve), and at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays: And whereas the Hunter ville Town Board has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the shops within the town district:

Now, therefore, I, Richard John Seddon, the Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 21 of the said Act, do hereby direct that from and after the 10th day of July, 1905, all shops in the Town District of Hunter ville shall be closed at 6 o’clock in the evening of Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, at 9 o’clock in the evening on Saturdays (excepting on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve), and at 1 p.m. on Wednesdays.

Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of July, 1905.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Labour.

Notice fixing Closing-hours of Shops in the Borough of Blenheim.

WHEREAS a requisition in writing, signed by a majority of the occupiers of all the shops in the Borough of Blenheim (not being one of the districts mentioned in section 3 of “The Shops and Offices Act, 1904”), has been forwarded to me, desiring that all shops in the following trades in the borough shall be closed at 6 o’clock in the evening on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, at 10 o’clock in the evening on Saturdays, and at 1 o’clock in the afternoon on Wednesdays: And whereas the Blenheim Borough Council has certified that the signatures to such requisition represent a majority of the occupiers of all the shops within the borough:

Now, therefore, I, Richard John Seddon, the Minister of Labour, in pursuance of section 21 of the said Act, do hereby direct that from and after the 10th day of July, 1905, all shops in the following trades in the Borough of Blenheim shall be closed in accordance with such requisition.

Trades.—Tailors, clothiers, drapers, milliners, jewellers, fancy-goods dealers, stationers, grocers, bootmakers, ironmongers, furniture-dealers, butchers, and bicycle-dealers.

Dated at Wellington, this 5th day of July, 1905.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Labour.

Approving and appointing a Bonding Warehouse.

CUSTOMS.—In exercise of the powers in me for this purpose vested by “The Customs Laws Consolidation Act, 1882,” I, the Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do hereby approve and appoint the undermentioned warehouse to be a warehouse for the reception of goods under bond, namely,—

Port of Dunedin.

A galvanised corrugated iron building, roofed with iron, situate on part Sections 22 and 24, Block 58, Allotment 2169, Vogel to Crawford Streets, to be known as

CHEMICAL STORES COMPANY’S MANUFACTURING BOND.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-seventh day of June, one thousand nine hundred and five.

C. H. MILLS,
Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
Commissioner’s Order No. 778.]

New Zealand Schools of Mines.

FURTHER AMENDED SCHOLARSHIP REGULATIONS.

Mines Department,
Wellington, New Zealand, 1st July, 1905.

1. FOUR scholarships will be offered annually for competition by students attending schools of mines within the colony—one each for Otago and the west coast of the Middle Island respectively, and two for the North Island.

2. The scholarships will be granted to those candidates who comply with the conditions and obtain the highest number of marks.

3. Should the holder of a scholarship attend the University of Otago no class fees will be charged, but should he elect to attend any other institution which is affiliated to the University of New Zealand he must pay his own class fees.

4. The scholarships will be of the annual value of £50 each to successful candidates who may reside three miles or more beyond the boundaries of the Borough of Dunedin or of the borough in which the affiliated institution is situated, and of £30 to successful candidates who reside within the boundaries of any such borough, or within three miles thereof.

5. The scholarships will be tenable for three years, or for such other period less than three years as may at the discretion of the Minister appear to be necessary.

6. The scholarships will be open to all students as aforesaid who are not less than eighteen years of age on the day appointed for receiving applications, as stated in regulation 10, and who shall have attended regularly at any school of mines within the colony for not less than two years, and attended at least 80 per cent. of the lectures in each subject of the examination course immediately preceding the examination.

7. The examinations will be held in the month of December in each year, on days which will be duly announced.

8. The examinations will be conducted in writing, and will embrace the following subjects:—

(a.) Theoretical chemistry.
(b.) Practical chemistry.
(c.) Metallurgy of gold and silver.
(d.) Mining.
(e.) Ventilation of mines.
(f.) General and mining geology.
(g.) Land and mine surveying.
(h.) Drawing.
(i.) Mathematics.

9. No scholarship shall be awarded to any candidate who does not obtain 75 per cent. of the marks in subjects (b), (c), (d), (e), and (f), and 65 per cent. in subjects (a), (g), (h), and (i).

10. Applications from candidates, accompanied by a fee of ten shillings, must reach the Mines Department at Wellington not later than the 1st November in each year, accompanied by the certificate of the director that the student has attended the necessary number of lectures in each subject at the school for two years.

11. Candidates must present themselves for examination on the day fixed, as provided in regulation No. 7.

12. The examination papers will be prepared by the examiners of the schools of mines.

13. The Minister of Mines retains to himself the right of cancelling any scholarship should the holder attend irregularly or be reported for idleness or bad conduct.

14. These regulations supersede the further amended regulations published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 40, of the 29th May, 1902.

JAS. McGOWAN,
Minister of Mines.