BONUSES ON COLONIAL INDUSTRIES.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2182, 22 February 1881, Page 4

BONUSES ON COLONIAL INDUSTRIES.

Notice is given by the Colonial Secretary in the " Gazette " of February 17th, that the following bonuses will be paid on artioles produced in the colony of New Zealand, as under:—

On Sugar.—A bonus of one thousand pounds (£1000) will be given for the production of the first 125 tons of sugar, manufactured in New Zealand, from beet grown in the colony. On Linseed Oil.—A bonus of five hundred pounds (£500) will be given for the production, by machinery permanently established in New Zealand, of the first ten thousand (10,000) gallons of oil, of good marketab e quality, from linseed grown in the colony. On Oil Cake.—A bonus of one hundred pounds (£100) will be givon for the production of the first fifty tons of oil oake, of good marketable quality, from linseod grown in the colony. On Starch.—A bonus of three hundred pounds (£300) will be given on the first fifty tons of starch, manufactured in the' colony, which shall be shipped to an English market, and for whioh a satisfactory certificate shall be given by dealers or brokers in England that the starch is of good marketable quality. On Silk.—A bonus of 50 per cent;, on the value realised for the first thousand pounds' (£1000) worth of oocoons of the silkworm, or silkworms' eggs, produced in the colony, to be paid on quantities of not less than fifty pounds (£SO) nor more than one hundred pounds (£100) produced by any one person. On Sulphuric Acid.—A bonus of five hundred pounds (£500) per annum will be given for three years in succession for the production each year, by machinery established in New Zealand, of not less than 50 tons of sulphuric ao:d, of good marketable quality. The producer, to the satisfaction of the Colonial Secretary, of the first 50 tons, shall bo also entitled to the payments of the two following years if he fulfils the conditions.

On Earthenware.—Ajbonus of two hundred and fifty pounds (£250) will be given on the first £IOOO worth of household earthenware manufactured in the colony, on proof that it has been sold at such prioes as to show that it is of good marketable quality. It is stipulated by the Colonial Secretary that notioe of intention to claim any of the above bonuses must be given in writing to the Colonial Seoretary not later than the 31st December, 1831. The claim must be made before the 30th Juno, 1882, and other conditions as to quantity, quality, an 1 value are to be fulfilled to the satisfaction of an officer appointed for the purpose by the Government.