1836
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 106

Canterbury Volunteers.
Surgeon Courtenay Nedwill. Date of resignation,
22nd October, 1882.

Wellington Guards.
Lieutenant Henry Thomas Blundell. Date of resig-
nation, 22nd November, 1882.

Hawera Light Horse.
Captain Felix McGuire. Date of resignation, 6th
October, 1882.

H. A. ATKINSON.

Description of Land.

All that parcel of land containing 3 acres 2 roods,
more or less, situated in the East Cape Survey Dis-
trict, County of Cook, and numbered 842 (in blue)
on the plan deposited in the Survey Office, Auckland.
Bounded as hereunder: Commencing at peg 1, dis-
tant from Harakeke Major Trig. Station 40418 links,
bearing 264° 14' 30" in a north-east direction by a
line, 350 links; thence in a north-west direction by a
line, 1,000 links; thence in a south-west direction by
a line, 350 links; thence in a south-east direction by
line, 1,000 links, to the point of commencement: be
all the aforesaid linkages more or less.

Given under my hand at Gisborne, this 22nd
day of November, 1882.
JOHN BROOKING.

Cemetery Trustee resigned.

General Crown Lands Office,
Wellington, 6th December, 1882.
HIS Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment has been pleased to accept the resigna-
tion of
HENRY HIRST, Esq.,
as a Trustee for the Orepuki Cemetery.
WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

Public Libraries.

Education Department,
Wellington, 20th September, 1882.
NOTICE is hereby given that the sum of six
thousand pounds (£6,000) has been voted by
Parliament for distribution to public libraries.
The distribution will take place on the 31st
January, 1883, and no claim will be considered that
shall not have been sent in in due form, and received
by the Secretary for Education, Wellington, before
the 22nd January, 1883.
Every public library maintained by rates will be
entitled to share in the distribution according to its
income from rates; and every library maintained by
subscriptions and voluntary contributions will be
entitled to share according to its income from sub-
scriptions and voluntary contributions: Provided
in either case that admission to the library, if within
a borough, is open to the public free of charge.
The income of each library may be stated either
for the year ending 31st December, 1882, or for the
year ending with that day in the year 1882 on which
the annual accounts of the library were made up.
The distribution will not be in proportion to the
several incomes of the libraries; but a nominal
addition of £25 will be made to the amount of each
income, and the vote of £6,000 will be divided in
proportion to the amounts as thus augmented.
Application to share in the distribution must be
made in the form of a statutory declaration by the
Chairman, or Secretary, or Treasurer of the institu-
tion on behalf of which it is made; and such declara-
tion shall be in the following form :—

DECLARATION.

I [Name], of [Place of abode], [Occupation], do solemnly and
sincerely declare that I am Chairman [or Secretary, or Treasurer]
of the [Name of institution], and that during the year ending
the day of , 1882, the income of the aforesaid
institution for the purposes of a library only was as follows:
From rates, pounds shillings and pence; and from the subscriptions of members, pounds
shillings and pence; and from voluntary contributions
other than members' subscriptions, pounds shillings and
pence; and that by the rules of the insti-
tution admission to the reading-room is open to the public free
of charge.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing
the same to be true, and by virtue of an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The Justices of the Peace
Act, 1882."

[Here affix and can-
cel a stamp at
2s. 6d.]

Declared at , this day of , 188 , before
me—
Justice of the Peace
[or Solicitor, or Notary Public].

[NOTE.—The words relating to free admission may
be struck out if the library is not in a borough. The
words in brackets are not part of the form, but indi-
cate matter to be inserted or substituted.]

Native School Site at Kawakawa.

Education Department,
Wellington, 4th December, 1882.
THE following report of the person appointed by
the Administrator of the Government, under
the provisions of "The Native Schools Sites Act,
1880," to ascertain the title of certain Natives to land
at Kawakawa, in the County of Cook, appropriated
by them for the site of a school, having been adopted
by the Administrator of the Government, is pub-
lished in accordance with the said Act.
THOMAS DICK.

REPORT UNDER "THE NATIVE SCHOOLS SITES ACT,
1880."

His Excellency the Administrator of the Govern-
ment having been pleased, in pursuance of the above-
recited Act, to appoint me to ascertain the title of
certain Natives to land at Kawakawa, in the East
Coast District, in the Provincial District of Auckland,
appropriated by them as a school site, I beg leave
respectfully to report :—

1. I gave notice in the Poverty Bay Herald news-
   paper that I would hold an inquiry in the building
   known as the Native Schoolhouse, at Kawakawa
   aforesaid, on Friday, the 10th day of November, 1882.
   I also had circulars to the same effect printed in
   English and Maori, which I caused to be circulated in
   Poverty Bay and the East Coast District.

2. On Friday, the 10th day of November, I
   opened an inquiry at the Native School-house at
   Kawakawa in accordance with the public notifica-
   tions, and then, at the unanimous request of the
   Natives, adjourned the meeting to the Native
   Runanga House at the same place, when there were
   present the chiefs and a number of the members of
   Te Whanaua Tuwhakairiora Tribe, when the plan of
   the proposed site was produced, and I explained to
   them the provisions of the above-recited Act.

3. The meeting was unanimous in agreeing that the
   land the boundaries of which are set forth hereunder
   was the property of Te Hatiwira Hokamau and
   Hare Paihia, as the principal representatives of Te
   Whanaua Tuwhakairiora Tribe, and that it should be
   set apart for a school site; and I certify that I am
   satisfied as to the ownership of the land, and that the
   owners assent to set it apart for a school site, in
   accordance with the above-recited Act.