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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 82

Bonus for Improvements in connection with the Preparation and Utilization of New Zealand Hemp (Phormium tenax).—Notice No. 1538.

Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourists,
Wellington, 10th October, 1911.

WITH reference to the offer of the New Zealand Government to pay a bonus of £12,000 for improvements in connection with the preparation and utilization of New Zealand hemp, the following notice by the New Zealand Flax-millers’ Association conveying the terms of the offer is published for general information.

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

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NOTICE TO INVENTORS, CHEMISTS, AND SCIENTISTS.

Bonus of £12,000 (nearly $60,000) offered.

THE New Zealand Government has agreed to pay £12,000 as a bonus or bonuses for improvements in connection with—

(1.) The extraction and dressing of fibre from the New Zealand hemp-plant (Phormium tenax); or

(2.) The utilization of the by-products obtained during the processes of extracting the fibre,—

on condition that the machine or process in regard to which the whole or any part of the bonus is to be paid shall be recommended by the New Zealand Flax-millers’ Association, and approved by the Government.

The association is accordingly prepared to receive applications for the bonus until 30th November, 1913.

A leaflet giving further particulars can be obtained by writing to or calling upon any of the following :—

The High Commissioner for New Zealand, 13 Victoria Street, London, S.W.

The Department of Agriculture, Washington, U.S.A.

The Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada.

The Secretary, N.Z. Flax-millers’ Association, Palmerston North, New Zealand.

The District Agent of the Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourists at Auckland, Napier, Wanganui, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, or Invercargill, New Zealand.

LOUIS SEIFERT,
President of the N.Z. Flax-millers’ Association.

Palmerston North, New Zealand.

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Foxglove declared to be a Noxious Weed by the Pelorus Road Board.—Notice No. 1547.

Department of Agriculture, Commerce, and Tourists,
Wellington, 13th October, 1911.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Pelorus Road Board has by special order declared foxglove to be a noxious weed within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the Pelorus Road District.

THOS. MACKENZIE,
Minister of Agriculture.

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

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 17th October, 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given that the registration of the Auckland Tramways’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 441, situated at Auckland, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the notification hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

JOHN LOMAS,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

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

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 17th October, 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given that the registration of the Timaru Waterside Workers’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 665, situated at Timaru, is hereby cancelled as from the date of the publication hereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

JOHN LOMAS,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

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

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 17th October, 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given that, pursuant to an application in that behalf made to me by the Lyttelton Stevedores’ Industrial Union of Workers, registered number 334, situated at Lyttelton, and in exercise of the powers 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.

JOHN LOMAS,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.

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Surveyors licensed.

The Surveyors’ Board of New Zealand,
Wellington, 16th October, 1911.

IT is hereby notified for general information that licenses under the Surveyors’ Institute and Board of Examiners Act, 1908, have been issued by the Surveyors’ Board to the following surveyors :—

Surveyor. Address.
ARCHIBALD DOUGLAS BURNS .. .. Blenheim.
HENRY LEWIS PERCY DYETT .. .. Wellington.
DAVID NELSON .. .. Gisborne.
EDWARD FLETCHER ROBERTS .. .. Roslyn.
JARL ADOLPH SYVERSTON .. .. Greytown.
ALLAN FRANCIS WATERS .. .. New Plymouth.
ERNEST GORDON WILSON .. .. Gore.

C. E. ADAMS,
Secretary, Surveyors’ Board.

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Branch of Friendly Society registered.

The Treasury, New Zealand,
Friendly Societies Office,
Wellington, 17th October, 1911.

THE Loyal Rakaia Lodge, situated at Rakaia, is registered as a branch of the Ashburton District of the New Zealand Branch of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows Friendly Society, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 17th day of October, 1911.

ROBT. E. HAYES,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

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Te Makarini Scholarships, held at Te Aute College, Hawke’s Bay.

TWO scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable for two years, are offered for competition. One of these scholarships, to be called the senior scholarship, is open to all Maori boys not over sixteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination; the other, to be called the junior scholarship, is open to all Maori boys under fourteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination who have attended a Native school or schools under the control of the Education Department, and whose attendance at school during the previous year is considered by the Inspector of Native Schools to have been satisfactory. The scholarships are open to Maori boys on the conditions laid down in the regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Appendix to the Native Schools Code, 1908. The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 4th and 5th of December, 1911. Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves for examination. Such notice must be posted so as to reach the Department not later than the 25th of October, 1911.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secretary for Education, Wellington.

W. W. BIRD,
Inspector of Native Schools.

Education Department,
Wellington, 20th September, 1911.