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Kumara Times, Issue 1648, 10 January 1882, Page 4

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 Borland, as under; — ON SUGAR. A bonus of one thousand pounds (£1000) will be given for the producr tion 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 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 conffition, ON CHEESE, A bonus of £SOO will be given for the first 25 tons of cheese (prqdnced in U factory working on the American principle, and to which factory any farmer, subject to certain conditions, ffiay 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 fairquality. ON STARCH. A boons of tlirep hundred pounds (£300) will be given on the first fifty tons of starch, manufactured in the polony, which shall be shipped to an Englisfi 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 barms of fifty per cent, on the yalue 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 quanfitips of nqt less value than fifty fiounds (£SQ) 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 wqrth of household earthenware pianufactured in the colony, on proof that it has been sold at such prices as fo show that it is of good marketable quality, ON SULPHURIC ACID. A 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 proqueer 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 be fulfils the conditions. ON GUNPOWDER. The Government are prepared to receive proposals from any person willing to establish a factory for the manufacture of apt} sporting ppwder. The proposer to state what amount of bonus he would require to induce him tp undertake the manufacture. The place where the factory is to be preqtqd 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 qnd the aryangeipents for carrying on the manufacture of the gunpowder to be subject to the inspection of an officer appointed by tfie Gpyernment. CONDITIONS. Thp claim must be made before the §Qth dfine, 1883. Thq other conditions as to quantity, quality, and value to be fulfilled to the satisfaction of an officer appointed for by the Government. •fHOMAS piCK.