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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7980, 26 September 1887, Page 2

ENCOURAGEMENT OF LOCAL INDUSTRIES.; nnHE following SPECIAL PRIZES are X offered for competition at the Agriculral Society's next Autumn Show, with the object of inducing the bush farmers to turn their attention to the wood products, which, it is believed, can be profi. ably manufactured from timber tkat at ptesent is destroyed in the process of clearing forest land . i'he following are the conditions : — ] Mr. hENBY WivSTON, pioprietor of the Taranakx Herald atid The Budget, will give a piize of £5 5s for the t ;st sample of WOOD TAR produced irom native tin»beis growing in the Counties of 'iarauaki, u'jifion, or Hawera, the quantities exnibited to consiat of not less than tbirty gallons, in a cask of local manufacture. Each exhibit to be accompanied by a clear description of tho process adopted in its manufacture, aod estimate of ccst ot production, i)'ive gallono of the prize exlu it/ to be available! for analysis toid tiad<, '-otg, Mh. F. P. CouK'^ti will give a prize oi" £6 6a for the best cample of r OTAriii, produced irom naiiv timbers grov/ing m the - ccantiea of '*ar. uAd, olifiou, or xiuuai&, the quautity exhibit e i to consist of not kss than one hundred w«.i.siil, put up in packagac of local manufacture. JUach exhibit, to oe accompanied by a clear description of the process adopted ia its manufacture, arid eeti-