BONUSES ON COLONIAL INDUSTRIES.

Kumara Times, Issue 1415, 14 April 1881, Page 2

BONUSES ON COLONIAL INDUSTRIES.

It is notified in the Government Gazette that the following bonuses will be paid on articles produced in ' tfie Colony of New Zealand ON SUGAR. i J 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. SUGAR-REFINING. ' f ’ j A bonus of five 1 hundred pounds (£500) will be given for three yeare-ih succession for the refining each year, by machinery established in New Zealand, of not less than one hundred;‘tons of cane sugar. . The establishment by which such refining is effected must be what is ordinarily known as a sugarrefinery. The firm refining the first one hundred tons of sugar, and receiving the bonus, shall be also entitled to the bonus of the two following years upon fulfilling the : conditions above named. 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 Marketable quality, from linseed groWn In tile colony. ON OIL CAKE:, A bonus of one hundred bounds l[£l00) Will be given for the production Of the first fifty tons of oil cake, of good marketable quality, from linseed grown in the Colony. M STARCH A bonds of three hundred pounds l[£300) Will be given on the first fifty tons of starch, manufactured in the .Colony, which shall be shipped to an English and for which a satis* factory certificate shall be given by dealers or brokers iri England that the Starch is of good marketable quality. ON SILK. A bonUs of fifty per Cent, on the Value realised for the first thousand pounds' (£1,000) worth of cocoons of the silkworm, or silkworms’ eggs, produced in the Colony, to be paid on quantities of not less value than fifty ;pounds (£SO) nor more tharl one hundred pounds (£100) produced by any one person. I f Ui W SULPHURIC ACID. 'A'bonus dl five hundred pounds will be given for fur the problished in New Zealand, of not less 'than fifty tons of sulphuric acid, of good marketable quality. The producer to the satisfaction of the Colonial Secretary of tike first fifty tons, shall be also entitled to the payments of the two -following years if he fulfils the conditions. ON EARTHENWARE. . , A bonus of two hundred and fifty pounds (£250) will be given on the first £IOQO worth of household earthenware ifiaoiifactured in the colony, on proof that it has been sold at such prices as to show that it is of good marketable quality. CONDITIONS. Notice of intention to claim any of the above bonuses must be given in Writing to the Colonial Secretary not later than the 31st December, 1881. : ;The claim must be made before the SOth June-, 1882. The other Conditions as to quantity, quality, and Value to be fulfilled to the satisfaction of an officer appointed for the purpose by the Government.