Dec. 10.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2537

will be 35 ft. above h.w.o.s.t., and the light should be visible in clear weather from a distance of eleven miles in all directions.

T. G. R. FINNY,
Commander, R.I.M., Presidency Port Officer.
Presidency Port Office, Madras, 20th October, 1903.

This notice affects the following Admiralty charts: Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal, No. 70; India (sheet 4), Bay of Bengal, Cocanada to Bassein River, No. 829; preliminary chart, India, Bay of Bengal, Bimlipatam to Bawanapad, with Bimlipatam anchorage, No. F. 1163.

Certificate under Section 8 of “The Preferential and Reciprocal Trade Act, 1903.”

IN pursuance of the provisions of “The Preferential and Reciprocal Trade Act, 1903,” I, Charles Houghton Mills, Commissioner of Trade and Customs, do by this order direct and prescribe that every entry for goods chargeable with duty under the above-mentioned Act shall have indorsed thereon, or shall be accompanied by, a declaration in the form prescribed in the Schedule hereto.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and three.

C. H. MILLS.

Commissioner’s Order No. 729.]

SCHEDULE.

I, [Full name], of the firm of , do hereby certify that this invoice, amounting to £ , for goods exported to New Zealand on account of [Name of person or firm to whom invoiced], is true and correct, and that the goods specified therein are bonâ fide the produce or manufacture of [Name of the part of the British dominions in which the goods have been produced or manufactured].

[Signature.]

Dated at , this day of , 190 .

Control and Management of Public Hall, Library, and School of Mines Site at Miller’s Flat, Otago Land District, vested in Trustees.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 3rd December, 1903.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to vest the control and management of the public hall, library, and school of mines site at Miller’s Flat, Otago Land District, containing by admeasurement 1 rood, more or less, being part of the land acquired under pre-emptive right D on Run numbered 200 under application No. 5468 No. 1 on the file of pre-emptive rights of the late Province of Otago, and more particularly described in conveyance to Her Majesty the Queen dated 11th February, 1898, and registered in the Otago Deeds Registry Office, No. 75619, in

ROBERT RICHARDSON,
JOHN SELLARS, and
JOHN KERR,

in pursuance of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881.”

C. H. MILLS,
For Minister of Lands.

Authorising the Laying-off of the Main Street in the Town of East Linwood Extension, Canterbury Land District, of a Width of 66 ft.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 1st December, 1903.

IN pursuance of the power and authority conferred upon me by section 2 of “The Towns Main Streets Act, 1902,” I, Thomas Young Duncan, Minister of Lands, do hereby authorise the laying-off of the main street in the Town of East Linwood Extension, Canterbury Land District, of a width of 66 ft., instead of 99 ft. as prescribed by section 17 of “The Land Act, 1892.”

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

Appointment of Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the Service of Notices by Telegraph.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 1st December, 1903.

IN pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by “The Electric Lines Act, 1884” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), and by the regulations made thereunder on the 25th March, 1895, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 4th April, 1895, the following officers at the addresses set against their names are hereby appointed Transmitting and Receiving Officers for the purpose of dealing with all notices by telegraph sent under the said Act or regulations, and of signing such certificates in relation to the service of any such notices as are required or authorised to be signed or given under the said Act or the regulations aforesaid.

Barnard, Frederick Henry, Postmaster, Naseby.
Capper, Howard Wilson, Chief Postmaster, Thames.
Dansey, Roger Delamere, Postmaster, Ashburton.
Dewar, Stewart, Postmaster, Gore.
Frank, George Henry, Postmaster, Kumara.
Inder, Simeon, Postmaster, Palmerston North.
Keele, Richmond, Postmaster, Queenstown.
McHutcheson, William, Chief Postmaster, Timaru.
Nicholls, William Henry Sinderby, Postmaster, Masterton.
Norton, Charles James, Postmaster, Pahiatua.
Pickett, John Joseph, Postmaster, Stratford.
Renner, William Henry, Chief Postmaster, Gisborne.
Salmon, Thomas Benjamin, Postmaster, Bluff.
Sampson, Gerard William, Chief Postmaster, Greymouth.
Stevens, James Hopkins, Postmaster, Hawera.
Tipping, Charles Jones Augustus Hill, Chief Postmaster, Invercargill.
Walsh, William James, Postmaster, Port Chalmers.
Whelan, Charles, Postmaster, Reefton.
Wylie, James Turner, Postmaster, Lawrence.

J. G. WARD,
Electric Telegraph Commissioner.

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 ending on the 31st day of December, 1903; 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, 1903, 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,” or “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1900,” 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 herein specified; that the whole of the subsidy received during the year was expended in the purchase of books for the library; and that by the rules of the library it is open to the public free of charge.