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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 67

Public Libraries.

Education Department,
Wellington, 4th November, 1885.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sum of £4,000 has been voted by Parliament for distribution to public libraries.

The distribution will take place on the 8th February, 1886, and no claim will be entitled to consideration that shall not have been sent in in due form and received by the Secretary for Education, Wellington, on or before the 31st January, 1886.

A library to be entitled to a subsidy must be public in the sense of belonging to the public, and of not being under the control of an association, society, or club, whose membership is composed of a section of the community only, and if within a borough it must be open to the public free of charge. The receipts for the year must not have been less than £2, exclusive of moneys received from endowments, or from Government, or from Borough or County Councils, or for special building purposes, or as rent, hire, or consideration for the use of any room, or building, or land belonging to the institution, in respect of none of which will subsidy be allowed. The net proceeds of concerts, lectures, or other entertainments on behalf of the current expenses of the library will be regarded as voluntary contributions. A subsidy will not be given to more than one library in the same town.

The income of each library may be stated either for the year ending the 31st December, 1885, or for the year ending with that day in the year 1885 on which the annual accounts of the library were made up.

A nominal addition of £25 will be made to the amount of each library’s receipts, and the vote of £4,000 will be divided in proportion to the amounts as thus augmented, but so as that no institution shall receive more than £50.

Application to share in the distribution must be by means of a statutory declaration by the Chairman, or Secretary, or Treasurer of the institution on behalf of which it is made; such declaration shall be on the form provided for the purpose, and shall be as follows:—

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]; that during the year ending the day of , 1885, the receipts of the aforesaid institution for the maintenance of the library only was as follows: From rates levied by a local governing body under “The Public Libraries Act, 1869,” pounds shillings and pence, from the subscriptions of members, pounds shillings and pence, and from voluntary contributions other than members’ subscriptions, pounds shillings and pence: that the information hereinafter furnished by me in the appendix hereto is correct in every particular; that the abstract of accounts is a true statement of the receipts and expenditure of the institution for the year herein specified; 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.”

(Signature.)

[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 application may be obtained from the Secretary for Education, Wellington, or the Secretary of any Education Board.

ROBERT STOUT.

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Road Board Elections.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 24th November, 1885.

THE following notices of elections of members of Road Boards have been received at this office, and are published in accordance with the provisions of “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

G. S. COOPER,
Under-Secretary.

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Manganui Road District, County of Taranaki:
James Were.

Masterton Road District, County of Wairarapa East:
Richard Read Welch.

Pahiatua Road District, County of Wairarapa East:
William Farrell.

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Notice to Persons in whom is vested Ecclesiastical Authority over Religious Bodies.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1885.

THE attention of the persons or person within the Colony of New Zealand in whom is vested ecclesiastical authority over any of the religious bodies enumerated in the Schedule B annexed to an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” and of all other persons concerned, is directed to the eleventh section of the above-mentioned Act, requiring the several ecclesiastical authorities as aforesaid to send in to the Registrar-General a correct list, in the month of December in every year, of the Officiating Ministers within the meaning of “The Marriage Act, 1880,” of each of the said religious bodies.

The following are the religious bodies above referred to:—
The Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.
The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Roman Catholic Church.
The Presbyterian Church of Otago and Southland.
The Wesleyan Methodist Society.
All Congregational Independents.
Baptists.
The Primitive Methodist Connexion.
The United Methodist Free Churches.
The Lutheran Church.
All Hebrew Congregations.
The Society of Friends.

In default of any person having ecclesiastical authority over any of the religious bodies named above, the name of the Officiating Minister of any congregation of such religious body may be certified to by two recognized office-holders thereof.

With respect to Ministers of Religion not connected with any of the aforesaid bodies, it is necessary that a certificate, signed by twenty-four householders resident in the district, declaring that such Minister is their Officiating Minister, the said certificate being attested by some person, verified by a declaration before a Justice of the Peace, shall be sent to the Registrar-General in the month of December in each year. The neglect in sending such last-named certificate will deprive the Minister of his status as an Officiating Minister under the Marriage Act.

Wm. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

N.B.—It is requested that the Christian names and the addresses of the several Ministers may be specified in the lists sent in to the Registrar-General.

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Officiating Ministers for 1885.—Notice No. 30.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 23rd November, 1885.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, passed in the forty-fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1880,” the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Lutheran Church.
The Reverend Christopher Gaustad.

Wm. R. E. BROWN,
Registrar-General.

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Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 20th November, 1885.

PATENT for an Invention for Lifting, styled the “Tubular Crane.”

ADAM WERNER, of Doyleston, County Selwyn, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 18th day of February next, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, at this office, to hear the said application and all objections thereto; and I require all persons having an interest in opposing the grant of such Letters Patent to leave, on or before the 3rd day of February next, at this office, particulars in writing of their objections to the said application, otherwise they will be precluded from urging the same.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Patent Officer.

No. 1625.