BONUS FOR QUICKSILVER.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 758, 5 March 1910, Page 13

BONUS FOR QUICKSILVER.

Notice is given in this week's Gazette that a bonus of fourpence (4d.) per pound will be paid on tho production of the first one hundred thousand pounds weight (100,0001b.) of good marketable retorted quicksilver, free from' all impurities, from.any mine in Now Zealand, on the following conditions, that is to say:— 1. That at least one-third of tho quantity is produced oil or before March 31, 1911, and the remaining two-thirds on or before March 31, 1912. 2. No bonus will be payable until tho whole of the one hundred thousand pounds (100,0001b.) of quicksilver has been produced as stipulated to the satisfaction of an officer to. be appointed by the Minister for Mines, and on whoso 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 one case shall any bonus be paid until at. least one hundred thousaud pounds (100,0001b.) of quicksilver has been produced in tho ■aggregate.