Dec. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2323

Cook and Son’s return tickets will be available for return as follows:—

For distances 11 to 200 miles .. .. .. For one calendar month from date of issue.
For distances over 200 miles .. .. .. For two calendar months from date of issue.
From Napier to Wellington, or vice versâ .. .. .. "
From Auckland to Okoroire, Te Aroha, and Thames .. .. .. "
From Auckland to Rotorua .. .. .. For three calendar months from date of issue.

Upon application at the railway booking-office, or in the case of flag-stations to the guard of train, tourists resident in other colonies or countries, and who are travelling in New Zealand, may obtain in exchange for Messrs. Cook and Son’s coupon orders separate railway-tickets for any journey specified in the foregoing Schedule. Each coupon shall be in the form approved by the General Manager of the New Zealand Government railways, and shall specify the name and address of the person to whom issued, the journey to be made, class of ticket required, and must be date-stamped and signed by local agent, showing date issued to holder.

Tickets from any starting-station will be issued only at that station.

The coupon orders must be presented in the block; detached coupons will not be honoured. The coupon will be detached by the station clerk or guard of train, as the case may require.

No tourist shall be entitled to draw more than one sectional ticket for the same journey during the same visit to the colony.

The tickets are not transferable.

Holders of sectional tickets may stop over at any intermediate station within the time for which the tickets are available.

The Railway Department does not guarantee the operation of the fares over the Wellington and Manawatu Company’s line, except so far as may be agreed upon from time to time between the said company and Messrs. Cook and Son’s agent. Coupons issued under this agreement will not be available unless used within three months from date of issue.

As witness my hand, this fifteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister for Railways.

Tender.

Railway Department (Head Office),
Wellington, 18th December, 1899.

THE following accepted tender is published for general information.

T. RONAYNE,
General Manager, New Zealand Railways.

LEASE of DINING-CARS running between Christchurch and Palmerston Railway-stations, for a Period from 18th December, 1899, to 31st March, 1901.

Subsidies to Public Libraries.

Education Department,
Wellington, 30th October, 1899.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sum of £3,000 has been voted by Parliament for distribution to public libraries.

The distribution will take place on the 8th February, 1900, 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, 1900.

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.

In the division of the vote, a nominal addition of £25 will be made to the amount of the income of each library derived from subscriptions, donations, and rates, and the vote will be divided according to the amounts thus augmented; but no library will receive credit for a larger income than £75—that is, in no case will the augmented amount on which distribution is based exceed £100.

The whole of the subsidy must be expended in the purchase of books for the library.

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, 1899; 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, 1899, the receipts of the aforesaid institution for the maintenance of the library only were 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, 1899; 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 January, 1900, before me— , Justice of the Peace [or Solicitor, or Notary Public].

[Here affix and cancel a stamp at 2s. 6d.]

[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.

W. C. WALKER.

Officiating Ministers for 1899.—Notice No. 36.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 15th December, 1899.

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 names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.
The Reverend Henry William Howell.

Church of Christ.
Mr. James Greenhill.

E. J. VON DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.