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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 83.

will be forfeited. A deposit to cover the Crown-grant fee for each section must be paid when the purchase is completed.

At the same time and place licenses of the runs described below will be offered at public auction, on the terms mentioned, and subject to the Land Acts, 1877 and 1879.

The person who shall pay the highest sum by way of annual rent in case of each of these runs shall be entitled to receive a license to occupy the same for a term of ten years for pastoral purposes, provided he shall pay at the auction rent at the rate of the highest price bid from the date of auction to the 1st September, 1883, together with a fee of £3 for the issue of the license. Subsequently a half-year’s rent shall be paid in advance on every 1st March and 1st September during the currency of the license: the first of such payments to be made on the 1st September, 1883.

Runs referred to.

The Snowflake Run, situate at Kaikoura, in Green-burn Survey District, adjoining the Swyncombe and Kincaid Runs; approximate area, 4,000 acres; upset annual rent, 1d. an acre.

The Kilbride Run, situate at Queen Charlotte Sound, in Arapoua Survey District; approximate area, 4,900 acres; upset annual rent, £29 8s.

The Raydale Run, situate at Tuamarina, in the Cloudy Bay Survey District; approximate area, 3,500 acres; upset annual rent, £40 16s. 8d.

The Leefield Run, situate at Waihopai, in Avon and Hodder Survey Districts; approximate area, 10,400 acres; upset annual rent, £87 10s.

The Kaituna Run, situate at Kaituna Valley, in Onamalutu and Cloudy Bay Survey Districts; approximate area, 1,500 acres; upset annual rent, 1d. per acre.

The Areare Run, situate at Kaituna Valley, in Onamalutu Survey District; approximate area, 475 acres; upset annual rent, 1d. an acre.

Plans of the above runs are open for public inspection at this office.

Dated at the Crown Lands Office, Blenheim, this 8th day of September, 1882.

HENRY G. CLARKE,
Commissioner of Crown 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 subscriptions 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 institution on behalf of which it is made; and such declaration 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 institution 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 cancel 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 indicate matter to be inserted or substituted.]

Copies of the form of statutory declaration may be obtained on application to the Secretary for Education, Wellington, or to the Secretary of any Education Board.

THOMAS DICK.

Te Makarini Scholarships.

THREE scholarships, to be held at the Native College, Te Aute, Hawke’s Bay, are offered by the Trustees of the fund instituted in memory of the late Sir Donald McLean for promoting the higher education of Maori youths.

Two of these scholarships are open to any Maori or half-caste whose age on the 30th November, 1882, shall not exceed fifteen years, and who shall have attended a Native college or school for the preceding twelve months. The remaining scholarship is open to any Maori or half-caste whose age on the 30th November, 1882, shall not exceed thirteen years, and who shall have attended a Native village school for the preceding twelve months.

The scholarships are of the annual value of £35, and are tenable for two years from the 1st January, 1883.

The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 18th and 19th December, 1882. Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves for examination. Such notice must be posted not later than the 31st October.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secretary to the Education Department.

JAMES H. POPE,
Inspector of Native Schools.