Dec. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1415

Zealand Universities who were not more than twenty-two
years of age on the 1st July, 1885, are of good height and
build, and medically fit. Not more than one from each
colony will be selected.

Graduates of the University of New Zealand who may be
desirous of availing themselves of this offer are requested to
make application by sending in their names to the Secretary
for Education, Wellington, accompanied by—

1. A statutory declaration of age on 1st July, 1885;
2. A statement of the degree taken in the University;
3. A statement of height and chest-measurement;
4. A medical certificate of health;
5. A certificate of moral character.
   No application can be received after the 31st December
   next.

ROBERT STOUT.

*Scale of Fees and Charges under "The Mortgage
Debentures Act, 1885."

Head Office, Stamp Department,
Wellington, 5th December, 1885.
THE following are the scale of fees and charges under
"The Mortgage Debentures Act, 1885:"—

Scale of Fees under Section 82.
The company shall pay the cost of the separate books the
Registrar requires to keep.
(One-tenth of one per cent. on the
value for the issue of mortgage
debentures on the first twenty
thousand pounds of securities
produced at any one time, and
one-twentieth of one per cent.
on any additional amount pro-
duced at the same time.
Application to register se-
curities, and registration
of same

For every certificate or direction by Registrar
other than certificates under sections 61 and 62 £0 5 0
For every debenture registered .. .. 0 1 0
For every receipt, cancellation, or discharge by
Registrar (including registration) .. .. 0 1 0
For every entry in register not otherwise charged 0 1 0
For every return or statutory declaration filed .. 0 1 0
For every search authorized by the Act .. 0 1 0
For every payment out of Public Trust Office
under Registrar's certificate, including certifi-
cate .. .. .. .. 0 10 0

Scale of Fees to be taken by Registrar under
Section 81.
Applications under sections 61 and 62, including
certificate and registration thereof (if issued)
and transmission to English agent .. .. £1 0 0
For each copy certificate supplied to company .. 0 1 0

Scale of Fees to be taken by English Agent under
Section 81 (subject to his being at liberty, instead of
adopting such scale, to arrange with any company for
a commuted annual payment).

Company to pay cost of separate books.
For certifying and register- {For the first ten presented at
ing debentures in office of { any one time, 2s. each, and
English agent { 1s. for each additional one.
Registration of transfer under section 75 .. £0 2 0
Each entry on register not previously mentioned 0 1 0
Search fee .. .. .. .. .. 0 1 0

JULIUS VOGEL.

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

IN accordance with section 144 of "The Public Works
Act, 1882," I, Edward Richardson, Minister for Public
Works, do hereby make the following alterations and addi-
tions to the scale of charges.

To come into force on and after the 3rd December, 1885:—

PART IV.—LOCAL RATES.
HURUNUI-BLUFF SECTION.
Ships' Ballast, Hornby to Lyttelton.
Ships' ballast from Hornby to Lyttelton will be charged
2s. 6d. per ton, including delivery to ship.

To come into force on and after the 7th December, 1885:—

COLONIAL AND INDIAN EXHIBITION.
Goods consigned for exhibit at the Colonial and Indian Exhi-
bition, to be held at London during 1886, will be carried free
on the New Zealand railways, provided that they shall be
so carried at the sole risk of the consignors, and that each
package shall be consigned to the Secretary to the New

Zealand Commissioner, Colonial and Indian Exhibition, at
either Auckland, Wellington, Port Chalmers, or Lyttelton,
and marked legibly "For Exhibit at the Colonial and
Indian Exhibition," and that the loading and unloading
shall be done at the expense of the consignors:

As witness my hand, this fifth day of December, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-five.

EDWARD RICHARDSON,
Minister for Public Works.

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 member-
ship 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 sub-
sidy 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 pur-
pose, 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 mem-
bers' 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 read-
ing-room is open to the public free of charge.
And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously be-
lieving 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.)

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.