DEC. 28.]
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

following years upon fulfilling the conditions above
named.

OSTRICHES.
A bonus of five pounds (£5) per head will be given
for healthy ostrich chicks landed in New Zealand for
the purpose of being reared and maintained in the
colony; the number of any importation to be not
less than ten nor more than fifty.

BUTTER OR CHEESE.
A bonus of five hundred pounds (£500) will be
given for the first 25 tons of butter or the first 50
tons of cheese (produced in a factory worked 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, and sold
at such prices in a foreign market as shall show that
the articles are of fair quality.

Conditions.

1. Notice of intention to claim any of the above
   bonuses must be given in writing to the Colonial
   Secretary not later than the 31st December, 1882.
2. The claim must be made before the 30th June,
4. The other conditions as to quantity, quality, and
   value to be fulfilled to the satisfaction of an officer
   appointed for the purpose by the Government.
5. Further information and particulars may be
   obtained by application to the Colonial Secretary's
   Office.

IRON.
A bonus of one thousand pounds (£1,000) will be
given for the production, in New Zealand, of 300
tons of pig-iron, of marketable quality, from ore pro-
duced in New Zealand.

Conditions

1. The bonus not to be given for any quantity less
   than 100 tons.
2. Notice of the intention to erect ironworks and
   claim the bonus must be given to the Colonial Secre-
   tary before the 31st December, 1882.
3. The bonus must be claimed before the 31st De-
   cember, 1883.
4. In the event of more than one claimant giving
   such notice, not more than seven-tenths of the bonus
   may be claimed by the first producer, and not more
   than three-tenths by the second producer; but if
   only one claimant becomes a producer on the above
   conditions, he may claim the whole of the bonus.
5. The iron in respect of which any bonus is
   claimed, and the ore from which it is manufactured,
   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.

THOMAS DICK.

Alterations and Additions to the Scale of Fares and
Charges in Force on the New Zealand Railways.

IN accordance with section 144 of "The Public
Works Act, 1882," I, Walter Woods Johnston,
Minister for Public Works, do hereby fix the follow-
ing scale of charges for the purposes specified below,
in lieu of that at present in force, and such scale shall
come into force from and after the 1st January,
1883:-

PART IV.-LOCAL RATES.

HURUNUI-BLUFF SECTION.

Rakaia-Ashburton Forks Railway Company's Line.
The following rates will be charged upon the
Rakaia-Ashburton Forks Railway Company's
Line;-

1923

Classes A, B, C, D ... s. d.
0 7
Class E ... ... 0 3
Classes N, P ... ... 0 2 $\frac{1}{2}$
Wool (undumped), per bale ... 0 1 $\frac{1}{2}$
Timber, per 100 superficial feet ... 0 0 $\frac{3}{4}$
Classes F, M ... ... 0 9,
Double-floor trucks ... rate and a half.
Class L ... ... 1 0

For local traffic on the Company's line, and between
the terminal Government station and the Company's
stations, the minimum rate will not be less than the
classified rates.

As witness my hand, this 27th day of December,
1882.

WALTER W. JOHNSTON,
Minister for Public Works.

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.]