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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 97

Notice to Mariners No. 147 of 1911.

BLUFF HARBOUR.—NEW LIGHT-TOWER ON STIRLING POINT.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 21st November, 1911.

THE Bluff Harbour Board have notified that a new watchman’s room and light-tower has been erected on the site of the old tower on Stirling Point, Bluff Harbour. The new building consists of a watchman’s room, built of concrete, on top of which is erected a light-tower 13 ft. high, built of wood and painted red.

The character of the light shown from the tower is the same as before, but is 6 ft. higher; the light is now 36 ft. above H.W.W.

When the channel is engaged a white light is shown 7 ft. below the red light, and no vessel may enter the harbour while this light is shown.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Charts Nos. 2540 and 3484; “New Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, Chapter ix, page 271; “New Zealand Nautical Almanac,” 1912, page 280.

J. A. MILLAR.

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Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 14th February, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of fourpence (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.

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Bonus on Mineral Oil produced in New Zealand.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 21st December, 1910.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of £10,000 will be paid for the production of mineral oil as under:—

1. (a.) £2,500 to be paid on proof being submitted that not less than 250,000 gallons of marketable crude oil has been won.

(b.) £2,500 to be paid on proof being submitted that not less than 500,000 gallons of marketable crude oil has been won.

(c.) £2,500 to be paid on proof being submitted that not less than 1,000,000 gallons of marketable crude oil has been won.

(d.) The balance of £2,500 to be paid to the person or company who first produces by his or its own refining plant 500,000 gallons of refined mineral oil.

“Marketable crude oil” shall contain not less than 90 per cent. of products (excluding water) which can be obtained by distillation.

“Refined mineral oil” may include benzine, petrol, kerosene, or lubricating-oils.

The illuminating-oil in the refined state to have a specific gravity of 0·814 to 0·830, and a flashpoint of not less than 83° Fahr. by the Abel closed test.

2. Notice of intention to claim the aforesaid bonus must be given in writing to the Minister of Mines not later than 31st March, 1912.

3. The claim must be made and the conditions duly fulfilled on or before the 31st March, 1915.

4. The first claimant who proves to the satisfaction of the Government that he has fulfilled all the conditions under any of the headings (a), (b), (c), or (d) shall be the recipient of the bonus payable under that heading. The oil must in each case be produced from the well or wells of one proprietary only.

5. All conditions as to quantity, quality, priority, and value to be fulfilled to the satisfaction of an officer appointed for the purpose by the Government.

6. This offer cancels the offer dated the 1st June, 1909, and appearing in the New Zealand Gazette.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Mines.

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Notice of Intention to take Land in Blocks IX and X, Norsewood Survey District, 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 Blocks IX and X, Norsewood 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 Matamau, 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 parcels of land required to be taken:—

All in the Hawke’s Bay Land District; as the same are 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.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

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Subsidies to Public Libraries.

Education Department,
Wellington, 8th November, 1911.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sum of £4,000 has been voted by Parliament for distribution to public libraries.

The distribution will take place on the 3rd February, 1912, and no claim will be entitled to consideration that shall not have been sent in in due form and received by the Secretary for Education, Wellington, on or before the 27th January, 1912.

1. A library to be entitled to a subsidy must be public in the sense of belonging to the public, and of not being under the control of an association, society, or club whose membership is composed of a section of the community only,