✨ General Notices and Rewards
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON.)
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
WILLIAM FITZHERBERT,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. VII.] FRIDAY, MAY 20th, 1859. [No. 10.
Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd April, 1859.
HIS HONOR the Superintendent has directed the publication of the following notice for general information.
WILLIAM FITZHERBERT.
Provincial Secretary.
NEW ZEALAND FLAX.
£4000 REWARD.
Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 19th March, 1859.
The Government of New Zealand is prepared, subject to the undermentioned conditions, to give rewards to the amount of £4000, for the discovery of efficient means for rendering the Flax, and other fibrous plants of New Zealand, available as articles of export, viz.:
£2000
To the person who shall, by some process of his own invention, first produce from the Phormium Tenax, or other fibrous plant indigenous to New Zealand, one hundred tons of Merchandise.
£1000
To any person, other than the person entitled to the first reward, who shall by some process of his own invention, next produce from the Phormium Tenax, or other fibrous plant indigenous to New Zealand, one hundred tons of Merchandise.
£1000
Viz.: £200 to each of the first five persons, other than those entitled to the first and second rewards, who shall by any process, whether of his own invention or not, produce from the Phormium Tenax, or other fibrous plant indigenous to New Zealand, twenty-five tons of Merchandise.
The Merchandise must be saleable as an article of Export from the Colony of New Zealand, and have been produced at a cost not exceeding 75 per cent of its value at the Port of Entry from which it is exported; and the process used must be fully made known with a view to the discovery being at once made available to the public.
His Excellency the Governor of New Zealand will from time to time appoint Commissions, to consist of not less than three persons, to act at such places as circumstances may require, and each claim for reward will be referred to such Commission as may be considered the most convenient for its proper investigation. The acts of the majority will be deemed the acts of the Commission.
Each Commission shall be at liberty to adopt such means as it may deem most fit for determining the value and cost of production of the
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Wellington Provincial Gazette 1859, No 10
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🏛️ Publication of Notice for General Information
🏛️ Governance & Central Administration3 April 1859
Notice, General Information, Provincial Secretary
- WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, Provincial Secretary
🌾 Rewards for Flax Processing Innovations
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources19 March 1859
Flax, Rewards, Phormium Tenax, Export, Innovation
- Colonial Secretary’s Office, Auckland