Aug. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3129

Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 14th February, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of four pence (4d.) per pound will be paid on the production of the first one hundred thousand pounds weight (100,000 lb.) of good marketable retorted quicksilver, free from all impurities, from any mine in New Zealand, on the following conditions, that is to say:—

1. That at least one-third of the quantity is produced on or before the 31st March, 1911, and the remaining two-thirds on or before the 31st March, 1912.

2. No bonus will be payable until the whole of the one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced as stipulated to the satisfaction of an officer to be appointed by the Minister of Mines, and on whose certificate alone the bonus will be paid.

3. In the event of more than one person producing the required quantities of quicksilver before the dates named, inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when, if it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus, the amount will be divided in proportion to the quantities produced by each applicant, but in no case shall any bonus be paid until at least one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has been produced in the aggregate.

R. MCKENZIE,
Minister of Mines.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block XV, Kawakawa Survey District, Bay of Islands County, for Road Purposes.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a road in Block XV, Kawakawa 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 post-office at Kawakawa, 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 of Public Works, at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land required to be taken:—

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured as above.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and ten.

R. MCKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds by the Taranaki and Woodville County Councils, and by the Woodville Borough Council.—Notice No. 1422.

Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourists.
Wellington, 28th July, 1910.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the undermentioned local authorities have, by special order, declared the plants enumerated opposite each to be noxious weeds within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the districts under the jurisdiction of each respectively —

Local Authority. Plants.
Taranaki County Council .. Gorse, ox-eye daisy, ragwort or ragweed.
Woodville County Council .. Pennyroyal, ragwort, gorse, Bathurst burr, giant burdock.
Woodville Borough Council.. Ditto.

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Minister of Agriculture.

The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908.—Amalgamation of Industrial Unions.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 3rd August, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that the unions of workers mentioned in the Schedule hereto have been amalgamated, so as to form one union, under section 20 of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, and their registrations have accordingly been cancelled, as from the 30th day of July, 1910.

The title of the amalgamated union is “The Canterbury Freezing-works, Bacon, and Manure Employees’ Industrial Union of Workers.”

EDW. TREGEAR,
Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

The Canterbury Freezers’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered No. 271, situated at Christchurch.

The Canterbury Manure, Tallow, Oleo, and Freezing-works Employees’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered No. 673, situated at Christchurch.

The Canterbury Meat-preserving Employees’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered No. 591, situated at Christchurch.

The Canterbury Slaughtermen’s Assistants’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered No. 475, situated at Christchurch.

Notice of Date of Examinations.

Education Department,
Wellington, 18th May, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Civil Service Junior Examination will be held in November, 1910, beginning on or about the 19th day of the month; that a Junior National Scholarship and Junior Free Place Examination will be held on or about the 1st and 2nd days of December, 1910; and that a Civil Service Senior Examination and an examination for teachers’ certificates of Class C and Class D will be held in January, 1911, beginning on or about the 5th day of the month.

With the Civil Service Junior Examination will be taken the Intermediate Examination, being the Special Examination for senior free places in secondary schools and district high schools and the First Examination of pupil-teachers.

With the Junior National Scholarship Examination will be taken the Junior Free Place Examination (including the examination for junior free places in technical schools).

Entries for Junior National Scholarships, Junior Free Places, and the First Examination of pupil-teachers must be made through the principals or head teachers of the schools attended, and will be received by Secretaries of Education Boards not later than the 15th September, 1910.

Entries for the Civil Service Junior Examination and Special Examination for Senior Free Places will be received by the Inspector-General of Schools, at Wellington, until the 15th September, 1910, or, with a late fee of £1, until the 22nd September, 1910.

Entries for the January examinations will be received by the Inspector-General of Schools, at Wellington, until the 30th September, 1910, or, with a late fee of £1 in addition to the ordinary fee, until the 15th October, 1910.

All entries must be made on the proper forms, which may be obtained later from the office of any Education Board or of the Education Department.

Special attention is drawn to alterations in date for the receipt of applications.

GEORGE HOGBEN,
Inspector-General of Schools.