Notice of Intention to take Land in the Borough of Petone for the Purposes of a Technical School.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1928, to take the land described in the Schedule hereto for the purposes of a technical school: And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Petone, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections 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.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken:
23-47 perches.
Being Lot 10 on D.P. 8102, being part Section 6, Hutt R.D.
Situated in the Borough of Petone.
In the Wellington Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 77801, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 11th day of February, 1930.
W. B. TAVERNER,
For Minister of Public Works.

(P.W. 31/538.)

Bonus for a Commercially Practicable Method or Process of effecting Major Improvements in connection with the Preparation and Manufacture of New Zealand Hemp.—(Notice No. Ag. 2881.)

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 8th February, 1930.

SUBJECT to the conditions hereinafter appearing, the New Zealand Government hereby offers to pay £10,000 as a bonus or bonuses for major improvements in connection with the extraction and dressing of fibre from the New Zealand hemp plant (Phormium tenax):

(1) The machine or process in regard to which the whole or any part of the bonus is to be paid shall be recommended by a committee set up by the Government, and shall be approved by the Government.
(2) The £10,000 will be paid wholly or in part for a commercially practicable process of extracting and dressing the fibre of New Zealand hemp (Phormium tenax), whether by machinery or otherwise, whereby there shall be obtainable—
(a) A greatly improved quality of fibre marketable at a higher price.
(b) A considerably greater quantity of strong white fibre per ton of green leaf.
(c) A substantial reduction in the cost of producing the fibre.
Provided that in determining the amount of the bonus to be paid for any such process due regard shall be had to the rate of any royalty required to be paid by millers for the use of such process, and no bonus whatever will be paid—
(i) Unless it can be satisfactorily demonstrated that the improved process submitted in comparison with the best of present methods will enable the net returns from an efficient flax-mill to be increased by at least 15 per cent.;
or
(ii) If the amount of any such royalty will absorb the whole or substantially the whole of the increased net return above referred to.
(3) Any applicant for the bonus or part of the bonus must have fulfilled the following conditions at the time of application :—
(a) The machine or process in question must have extracted the fibre from not less than 500 tons of green leaf.
(b) The fibre extracted from the 500 tons of green leaf must have been graded by a Government Grader, and not less than 90 per cent. of such fibre must have reached a grade not lower than “good fair.”
(4) Applications for the bonus must be addressed to the Director-General, Department of Agriculture, Wellington, and must reach him not later than noon of the 30th November, 1931. They must be enclosed in an envelope clearly marked “Application for Phormium bonus.”
(5) Each applicant shall state what royalty, if any, would require to be paid by millers for the use of his process during the currency of his patent rights.

(6) As soon as possible after the expiry of the time for receiving applications for the bonus (30th November, 1931), the Government will appoint a committee of not less than five—of whom two shall be New Zealand hemp millers—to open and examine the applications, to investigate such of the competing machines or processes as it considers worthy of trial, and to make recommendations to the Government as to the payment of the bonus, having regard to the amount of royalty, if any, specified in such applications.
(7) Each applicant must give, at his own expense, such reasonable demonstrations of the working of his machine or process as shall be demanded by the said committee, and such demonstrations shall take place in New Zealand.

GEO. W. FORBES, Minister of Agriculture.

Cancellation of Certificate and Registration as Teacher.

Office of Minister of Education,
Wellington, 3rd February, 1930.

NOTICE is hereby given that the teacher’s certificate and registration of Archibald Russell Coltman are hereby cancelled under section 17 (3) of the Education Act, 1924.

HARRY ATMORE, Minister of Education.

Notice directing the Observance on Wednesday of the Statutory Closing-day in the Borough of Raetihi during the Week ending 15th February, 1930.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 22 of the Shops and Offices Amendment Act, 1927, I, William Andrew Veitch, Minister of Labour, do hereby direct, with respect to the Borough of Raetihi, the observance in the week ending 15th February, 1930, of the statutory closing-day on Wednesday and the giving of the weekly half-holiday to assistants on that day.

Dated at Wellington, this 11th day of February, 1930.
W. B. TAVERNER, for Minister of Labour.

Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.—Declaration by the Assistant Registrar dissolving a Society.

I, ALAN LESLIE BARNARD ROSS, Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that the Taranaki Building Trades Sub-contractors’ Association (Incorporated) is no longer carrying on its operations, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved in pursuance of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

Dated at New Plymouth, this 3rd day of February, 1930.
A. L. B. ROSS,
Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies.

Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.—Declaration by the Assistant Registrar dissolving a Society.

I, ALAN LESLIE BARNARD ROSS, Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies, do hereby declare that, as it has been made to appear to me that the Stratford Progress League (Incorporated) is no longer carrying on its operations, the aforesaid society is hereby dissolved in pursuance of section 28 of the Incorporated Societies Act, 1908.

Dated at New Plymouth, this 3rd day of February, 1930.
A. L. B. ROSS,
Assistant Registrar of Incorporated Societies.

Electrical Wiremen’s Registration Act, 1925.—Lost Registration Certificates.

NOTICE is hereby given that it has been reported to the Electrical Wiremen’s Registration Board that the undermentioned registration certificates have been lost:—

ELECTRICAL WIREFEN.

B909 Blue, Archie Henry, issued 5/8/26.
B2279 Crocker, Cyril Clarence, issued 17/8/27.
B189 Greenland, George Albert, issued 28/5/26.
B1151 Mackay, Jack, issued 20/9/26.

Any person making illegal use of any registration certificates is liable to a penalty of £20.

P. H. GWYNN, Registrar.

(P.W. 26/200/B.)