Mar. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 897

TABLE IX.

………Hospital and Charitable Aid Board.

RETURN SHOWING REPRESENTATION ON AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO DISTRICT BOARDS BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Vesting a Cemetery Reserve in the Whangamarino Road Board.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this twelfth day of March, 1915.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the land described in the Schedule hereto has been permanently reserved for cemetery purposes: And whereas, in the opinion of the Governor, it is expedient to vest the said reserve in the Corporation of the Whangamarino Road District:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, and in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the fourth section of the Public Reserves and Domains Act, 1908, doth hereby declare that, from and after the day of the date hereof, the reserve described in the Schedule hereto shall become vested in the Corporation of the Whangamarino Road District, in trust, for a public cemetery.

SCHEDULE.

RANGIRIRI CEMETERY.

All that area in the Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 2 acres 2 roods 20 perches, more or less, being Allotment No. 11, Suburbs of Rangiriri, Block III, Rangiriri Survey District. Bounded towards the north-east by Mercer Street, 900 links; towards the south-east by Allotment 6, Suburbs of Rangiriri, 425·4 links; and towards the south-west and north-west by Great South Road, 468·1 and 569 links respectively: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan marked L. 1700, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, and thereon edged red.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

Regulations under the Iron and Steel Industries Act, 1914.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this eighth day of March, 1915.

Present:

The Honourable J. Allen presiding in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of all powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Iron and Steel Industries Act, 1914 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations for the purposes of the said Act; and doth hereby declare that the said regulations shall come into force on the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

1. A manufacturer shall not be entitled to claim bounty in respect of the manufacture of pig-iron, puddled bar iron, or steel, unless the quantities respectively specified in the following table have been produced in the factory before the claim for bounty is made.

TABLE OF MINIMUM QUANTITIES TO ENABLE CLAIM FOR BOUNTY TO BE MADE.

2. Priority in giving notice of intention to claim bounty shall not be deemed to secure any prior claim to the payment of bounty.

3. If in any year there is not sufficient money available to pay the full bounty in respect of all claims by claimants who have complied with the prescribed conditions, the rates of bounty specified in section 3 of the said Act shall be abated, but so that the rates payable in respect of pig-iron, puddled bar iron, and steel produced from pig-iron shall be equal, and the rate payable in respect of steel produced from molten metal direct from the furnace shall be twice the rate payable on any of the other classes of goods.

4. Any person authorized in writing by the Minister of Mines may at all reasonable times enter upon every part of any factory where any goods in respect of which notice of intention to claim bounty has been given are manufactured, and may make inquiries regarding and may inspect the process of manufacture of those goods, and any books of the manufacturer, for the purpose of ascertaining the materials used in the manufacture and the cost of production and manufacture.

5. All iron and steel on which bounty is claimed will be examined and tested on the manufacturer’s premises and at his expense, both during and after manufacture, by some person authorized for that purpose by the Minister. The person so authorized will be required to give certificates as to the quality, weight, and value of the goods in respect of which bounty is claimed, and to state if the Act and Regulations have been complied with by the claimants for bounty.

6. Pig-iron on which bounty is claimed shall be dense, free from slaggy or other non-metallic impurities or inclusions, and shall be cast in convenient sizes. It shall contain not less than 90 per cent. of pure iron. If combined with the iron, the following substances shall not exceed the proportions given as follows:—

Carbon .. .. .. 4·0 per cent.
Silicon .. .. .. 2·5 ,,
Sulphur .. .. .. 0·2 ,,
Manganese .. .. .. 1·5 ,,

Slight traces of titanium, arsenic, copper, calcium, magnesium, or aluminium will not be objected to.

7. Puddled bar iron on which bounty is claimed shall conform to the requirements of the British standard specification for wrought iron of smithing quality for shipbuilding, Grade “D,” as published by the Engineering Standards Committee.

8. (a.) All rod and bar steel on which bounty is claimed shall be capable of standing a tensile strain of not less than 26 tons to the square inch, and not exceeding 30 tons per square inch of section, with an elongation of 20 per cent. in a length of 8 inches.

(b.) All rod and bar steel on which bounty is claimed shall stand the following tempering test: Strips cut in a planing machine lengthwise not exceeding 1¼ inches wide, heated uniformly to a low cherry red, and cooled in water of 82 degrees Fahrenheit, shall stand bending in a press to a curve of which the inner radius is one and a half times the thickness of the pieces tested.

(c.) The ductibility of every steel rod and bar on which bounty is claimed shall be ascertained by the application of one or both of the foregoing tests to the shearing, or by bending them cold by the hammer.

(d.) All steel rods and bars upon which bonus is claimed shall be free from lamination and injurious surface defects.

9. All steel rails on which bounty is claimed shall conform to the requirements of the British standard specification for flat-bottomed railway rails, as published by the Engineering Standards Committee.

10. All bad steel (including “break outs” of the furnace, cobbles produced in the rolling-mills, and other unmerchantable steel) shall be returned to the furnace forthwith.

11. Pig-iron, puddled bar iron, and steel on which bounty is claimed shall be supplied to the Government, if required, at prices not exceeding those at which similar classes and descriptions of iron and steel can be procured in the English market, with the cost of shipping charges, insurance, and freight to New Zealand added thereto.

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