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Kumara Times, Issue 1500, 19 July 1881, Page 3

BONUSES ON COLONIAL INDUSTRIES. Colonial Secretary's Office, Wellington, 20th April, 1881. NOTICE is hereby giveu 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 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 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, aud sold at such prices in a foreign market as shall shew that the articles are of fair quality. 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 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 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 STARCH A bonus of three hundred pounds (£300) will be given on the first fifty tons of starch, maDiifactnred 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. CONDITIONS. Notice of intention to claim any of the above bonises must be given in writing to the Colonial Secretary not later than the 31st December, 1881. The claim must be made before the 30th June, IBS2. The other conditions as to quantity, quality, and value to be fulfilled to the satisfaction of an officer appointed for the purpose by the Goverrimf-nt. THOMAS DICK.