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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 92

muri County Council to raise by way of loan the sum of £3,000 for the purpose of carrying out certain public works, viz., the formation, kerbing, and channelling of footpaths in and around Paeroa Township, the following votes were recorded: For the proposal, 42; against the proposal, 16; informal, 1: majority in favour of the proposal, 26.
I therefore declare the proposal carried.
H. POLAND,
Chairman, Ohinemuri County Council.
Paeroa, 27th November, 1903.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 2nd December, 1903.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Ohinemuri County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

R. J. SEDDON,
Colonial Treasurer.

COUNTY OF OHINEMURI.

SPECIAL LOAN of £1,750 for constructing Main Drains and Branch Drains and Sewerage-works for the Township of Paeroa.

I HEREBY give notice that at the poll taken on Thursday, the 26th day of November, 1903, on the proposal of the Ohinemuri County Council to raise by way of loan the sum of £1,750 for the purpose of carrying out certain public works, viz., the constructing of main drains and branch drains and sewerage-works for the Township of Paeroa, the following votes were recorded: For the proposal, 39; against the proposal, 11; informal, 1: majority in favour of the proposal, 28.
I therefore declare the proposal carried.
H. POLAND,
Chairman, Ohinemuri County Council.
Paeroa, 27th November, 1903.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 2nd December, 1903.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Ohinemuri County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

R. J. SEDDON,
Colonial Treasurer.

COUNTY OF OHINEMURI.

SPECIAL LOAN of £1,750 for acquiring, laying-out, fencing, forming, and planting a public recreation-ground and public domain at Paeroa, including the necessary buildings and erections, and the purchase of additional land if required, and the preliminary expenses incurred in connection with the scheme.

I hereby give notice that, at the poll taken on Thursday, the 26th day of November, 1903, on the proposal of the Ohinemuri County Council to raise by way of loan the sum of £1,750, for the purpose of carrying out certain public works, viz., the acquiring, laying-out, fencing, forming, and planting a public recreation-ground and public domain at Paeroa, including the necessary buildings and erections, and the purchase of additional land if required, and the preliminary expenses incurred in connection with the scheme, the following votes were recorded: For the proposal, 50; against the proposal, 9; informal, nil: majority in favour of the proposal, 41.
I therefore declare the proposal carried.
H. POLAND,
Chairman, Ohinemuri County Council.
Paeroa, 27th November, 1903.

Notice to Mariners No. 85 of 1903.

“NEW ZEALAND NAUTICAL ALMANAC AND TIDE-TABLES.”

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 23rd November, 1903.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Marine Department have just published the “New Zealand Nautical Almanac and Tide-tables” for 1904. The work also contains Captain Blackburne’s very comprehensive azimuth tables, and much other valuable information to mariners, viz.: Instructions re drowning accidents; regulations for preventing collisions at sea; international code-flags, and instructions how to use them; bar, tide, storm, distress, and various harbour signals, mostly illustrated by the signs and flags used; simple methods, with diagrams, for finding the ship’s distance from a point; courses and distances between principal ports of New Zealand, also between New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa; information relating to eighteen of the principal ports of New Zealand, and twenty plans of the harbours and wharves, corrected from latest available information; the various notices to mariners regarding the colony; and all the latest information derived from H.M.S. “Penguin’s” survey have been collated and published, as also the general notices to mariners and special warnings which are issued monthly by the Board of Trade. The book also contains a lighthouse-chart of New Zealand, and two separate maps, one of the North and one of the South Island of New Zealand, showing the railways open, coach-roads, sea-routes, and distances round the New Zealand coast. The port trains have been given; and some condensed postal information for the colony.
The book can be obtained from the Customhouses at the principal ports, or from local booksellers. Price, 2s.
WM. HALL-JONES.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds in the Borough of North Invercargill, and in the Mount Albert Road District.—Notice No. 836.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 1st December, 1903.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the undermentioned local governing bodies have by special order declared the plants enumerated opposite each to be noxious weeds within the meaning of “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” in the district under the jurisdiction of each respectively:—

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Subsidies to Public Libraries.

Education Department,
Wellington, 28th November, 1903.

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, 1904, 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, 1904.

1. 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 from subscriptions and donations 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.
2. 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.
3. The whole of the subsidy must be expended without delay in the purchase of books for the library.
4. 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