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Kumara Times, Issue 1466, 9 June 1881, Page 3

BONUSES ON COLONIAL INDUSTRIES. Colonial Secretary’s Office, Wellington, 20th April, 1881. NOTICE is hereby given that the following bonuses will be paid on articles 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 marketable quality, from linseed grown in the colony. ON OIL CAKE. A bonus of one hundred pounds (£100) will be given for the production of the first fifty tons of oil cake, of good marketable quality, from linseed grown in the colony. ON CHEESE. A bonus of £SOO will be given for the first 25 tons of cheese (produced in a factory working on the American principle, and to which factory any farmer, subject to certain conditions, may send his milk), which shall be exported from New Zealand, and sold at such prices in a foreign market as shall shew that the articles are of fair qualitj'. ON FRESH MEAT. A bonus of £SOO will also be given on the first one hundred tons of fresh meat exported from New Zealand in vessels fitted with refrigerating machinery ; such meat must have been collected in a refrigerating chamber in this Colony, and must have been landed in Europe in a sound marketable condition. 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 which 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 fifty per cent, on the value realized 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 than one hundred pounds (£100) produced by any one person. ON EARTHENWARE. A bonus 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 prices as to show that it is of good marketable quality. 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 fifty tons of sulphuric acid, of good marketable quality. The producer to the satisfaction of the Colonial Secretary of the first fifty tons, shall be also entitled to the payments of the two following years if he fulfils the conditions. ON GUNPOWDER. The Government are prepared to ceive proposals from any person willing to establish a factory for the manufacture of blasting and sporting powder. The proposer to state what amount of bonus he would require to induce him to undertake the manufacture. The place where the factory is to be erected to be subject to the approval of the Government, the plans and specifications of the building to be also approved by Government. All the internal fittings and the arrangements for canying on the manufacture of the gunpowder to be subject to the inspection of an officer appointed by the Government. CONDITIONS, Notice of intention td claim any of the above bonuses must be given in writing to the Colonial Secretary not later than the 3lst December, 1881. The claim must be made before the 30th 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. THOMAS DICK.