MAR. 30.| THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

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, and who shall have attended regularly at any School of Mines within the Dominion for not less than two years at least 80 per cent. of the lectures in each subject of the examination course.

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 embrace six of the following subjects :

(a.) Theoretical Chemistry.

(b.) Practical Chemistry.

(c.) Metallurgy of Gold and Silver; or Drainage, . Haulage, and Winding.

(d.) Mining “Coal” or “Metal.”

(e.) Ventilation.

(f.) General and Mining Geology.

(g.) Land and Mine Surveying.

(h.) Mathematics.

The branches of subjects (c) and (d) shall be at the option of the candidates, who must state in their applications the branch of each subject they intend to take up.

9. No Scholarship shall be awarded to any candidate who does not obtain 75 per cent. of the marks in each of the six subjects.

10. Applications from candidates, accompanied by a fee of 10s., 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 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.

13. These Regulations supersede the Further Amended Regulations published in the New Zealand Gazette No. 107, of the 15th December, 1910.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Mines.

Tenders.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 28th March, 1911.

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

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Mines.

KUMARA WATER-RACE EXTENSION.Supply AND DELIVERY OF TIMBER BOLSTERS.

Accepted.

Murtha, Jas., Kumara : 1,000 silver-pine bolsters, at 5s.

Also included in tender, but not accepted : 1,000 totara, matai, or hinau bolsters, at 6s. ; 1,000 rimu, at 3s.
(delivered at tramway).

Declined.

S. Case and party, Dillmanstown (royalty not included): Delivered at Christchurch Road, Dillmanstown874 bolsters mixed matai, silver-pine, totara, hinau, at 4s. 10d.

2,350 bolsters rimu, at 2s.
Delivered at tramway709 bolsters matai, silver-pine, totara, hinau, at 4s. 10d.
Delivered at Payne’s Gully Road767 bolsters matai, silver-pine, hinau, at 4s. 10d.

Richardson and Pugh, Kumara : Delivered at Christchurch Road, Dillmanstown874 bolsters rimu, matai, totara, silver-pine, or hinau, at 6s. 6d.
Delivered at tramway709 bolsters rimu, matai, totara, silver-pine, or hinau, at 6s. 6d.
Delivered at Payne’s Gully Road767 bolsters rimu, matai, totara, silver-pine, or hinau, at 6s. 6d.

Forbidding Money-order and Postal Correspondence for Wenford Company, Sydney.

THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zea- land having reasonable ground for supposing that the company whose name and address are shown in the Schedule hereunder is engaged in advertising the treatment of diseases of the sexual organs, it is hereby ordered, under section 28 of the Post and Telegraph Act, 1908, that no money-order in favour of the said company shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed to the said company (either by its own or any fictitious or assumed name), or to the manager, secretary, or other officer thereof, or addressed to the address in the Schedule hereunder without a name, shall be either registered, forwarded, or delivered by the Post Office of New Zealand.

SCHEDULE.

Wenford Company, 9 Linden Court, Sydney.

Dated this 28th day of March, 1911.

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Acting Postmaster-General.

Introduction of Fruit and Plants into Fiji.-Notice No. 1490.

Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourists, Wellington, 29th March, 1911.

T T is hereby notified for public information that advice has been received from the Department of Agriculture, Fiji, that by regulations made by the Governor in Council of Fiji, under date of 6th January, 1911, all plants and parts of plants imported into Fiji are liable to inspection and treatment (if necessary) upon arrival. The regulations will come into force on 1st April, 1911; and attention is particularly drawn to clause 4, which is as follows :

“ 4. Every shipment of fruit must be accompanied by a certificate as set out in Schedule IV, signed by an officer of the Department of Agriculture or other Department performing the functions or duties relating to horticulture in the country or place where such fruit was grown, certifying that such fruit is clean and free from pest and disease.”

SCHEDULE IV.

I HEREBY certify that I have duly inspected the consignment of-

Marks : . No. of Packages:

Contents:

addressed to , consigned by , per
and have found them to be, to the best of my knowledge, clean and free from disease or pest.

Signature of Inspector:

Official designation:

Address:

Date:

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Minister of Agriculture and of Industries and Commerce.

The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908. Notice of Proposed Cancellation of Registry.

Department of Labour,

Wellington, 29th March, 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application in that behalf made to me by the Waihi Amalgamated Miners’ and Workers’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 409, situated at Waihi, and in exercise of the power in this behalf conferred upon me by section 21 of the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1908, it is my intention to cancel the registration of that industrial union after the expiration of six weeks from the date of the publication of this notice in the Gazette, unless in the meantime cause is shown to the contrary.

F. W. ROWLEY,
Deputy Registrar of Industrial Unions.