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5. The iron in respect to which any bonus is claimed will be examined by an officer to be appointed by the Government, who may require the production of bona fide account sales of quantities not less than 100 tons weight, showing that such iron has been sold at a fair market price as pig iron. Steel.—Bonus of £1,000. For the production in New Zealand of 100 tons weight of marketable steel from magnetic or titaniferous iron sand or iron ore. Conditions. 1. Notices must be given to the Colonial Secretary of the intention to claim this bonus before the 30th June, 1873. 2. The claim for payment of the bonus must be made before 30th June, 1874. 3. The bonus will be paid to the producer who effects the first bona fide sale of the above quantity of steel at a fair market price. Sugar.—Bonus of £2,000. For the production of 250 tona of sugar manufactured from beetroot in New Zealand. Conditions. 1. Notice of the intention to claim this bonus must be given to the Colonial Secretary before 31st December, 1873. 2. Claims for payment of the bonus to be sent in before 30th June, 1875. 3. The bonus will be paid to the producer who first effects a bona fide sale of the amount of sugar specified. Paper.—Bonus of £2,500. For the production of 100 tons of printing paper, manufactured in New Zealand, by machinery. Conditions. 1. Notice of the intention to claim this bonus must be given to the Colonial Secretary before 31st January, 1873. 2. The paper must be made by machinery, permanently established, and working in the Colony. 3. Claims for payment of tho bonus must be sent in before 31st December, 1874. 4. The bonus will be paid to the producer who effects the first bona fide sale of the amount of printing paper specified. Fisn. —Bonus of 4s. per cwt. This bonus will be paid on cured fish, dry or pickled, exported from the Colony for consumption abroad. Conditions. 1. The bonus will be paid to the producer on the production of- account sales showing that the fish has been sold out of the Colony for fair market value. 2. The exporter to enter into a bond not to re-land in the Colony any fish upon which a bonus has been paid. 3. The bonus may be claimed on all fish exported between Ist August, 1872, and Ist November 1879, and is to be paid out of any moneys appropriated by Parliament for the purpose. The above rewards will be paid on the certificate of an officer appointed by Government, that the conditions applicable to each reward have been complied with. John Hall.

APPENDIX 81. No. 2. The attached form was distributed to the undermentioned persons with parcels of beet seed. The Botanic Gardens, Wellington. ... ... Eeport enclosed (a). Major Jackson, Waikato ... ... ... No return. Mr. Hay, Auckland ... ... ... ... „ Superintendent, Hawke's Bay ... ... ... „ Mr. Hulke, Taranaki ... ... ... ... Eeport (5). Provincial Secretary, Nelson ... ... ... No return. Hon. Mr. Eobinson, Cheviot ... ... ... „ Superintendent, Christchurch ... ... ... „ Hon. Mr. Holmes, Oamaru ... ... ... „ Mr. Murray, Clutha ... ... „ Memorandum relative to the Experimental Cultivation of the Sugar Beet from Seed distributed by Government. The object of the distribution of this seed is to ascertain the proportion of sugar which can be produced per acre from beet grown in different parts of the Colony. The three following varieties have been obtained from Germany, as those which are most profitably cultivated in that country for the manufacture of sugar:—l. White Silesia; 2. White Imperial; 3. Improved Vilmorius,