Dec. 30.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1723

The distribution will take place on the 8th February, 1887, 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, 1887.

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.

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, and must be accompanied by a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the institution for the year ending on the 31st day of December, 1886; and such declaration must be on the form provided for the purpose, which form 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 on the 31st day of December, 1886, 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. And I do solemnly and sincerely declare 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 ending on the 31st day of December, 1886; 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.)

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, and from the Secretary of any Education Board.

ROBERT STOUT.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for Improved Cutters for Standard-making Machines.

WILLIAM HENDERSON, of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, Merchant, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 24th day of March 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 9th day of March 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. 2162.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for a new and useful Method or Principle of entrapping Wild Rabbits.

ROBERT LORD HODGSON, of St. John’s, Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn, in the Colony of Victoria, Accountant, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Thursday, the 24th day of March 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 9th day of March 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. 2163.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for a Machine designed for speedily and perfectly mashing Malt for brewing and distilling, and for speedily and perfectly mixing other Substances, either wet or dry.

THOMAS GEORGE MACARTHY, of Wellington, New Zealand, Brewer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 29th day of March 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 14th day of March 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. 2164.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in Springs for Doors and other analogous purposes, and in Checks for preventing slamming.

ROBERT ADAMS, of 17, Blackman Street, Southwark, in the County of Surrey, England, Engineer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 29th day of March 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 14th day of March 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. 2165.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 23rd December, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for Improvements in Apparatus for the Measurement of Liquids.

WILLIAM COWAN, of Buccleuch Street Works, Edinburgh, Scotland, Gas Apparatus Manufacturer, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 29th day of March 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 14th day of March 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. 2166.

Application for a Patent.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 29th December, 1886.

PATENT for an Invention for a Packet Mould, to be called “Gilbert’s Patent Packet Mould.”

WILLIAM GILBERT, of Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand, Tea Merchant, has deposited at this office a specification of the said invention; and I have appointed Tuesday, the 29th day of March next, at 11 o’clock in the forenoon, at this office, to hear the said application and all objections thereto;