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as above mentioned, deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

Dated this 12th day of January, 1904.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds in the Waimate Road District.—Notice No. 847.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 18th January, 1904.

IT is hereby notified for public information that the Waimate Road Board (County of Hawera) has by special order declared ox-eye daisy to be a noxious weed within the meaning of “The Noxious Weeds Act, 1900,” in the district under its jurisdiction.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister for Agriculture.

Dates of Meetings of Hawke’s Bay Land Board altered.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 13th January, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of section 48 of “The Land Act, 1892,” approved of the meetings of the Hawke’s Bay Land Board being held on the second Friday in each month, at Napier, and on the 9th January, 9th April, 9th July, and 15th October, at Gisborne, during the year 1904.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.

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.

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 , 190 , 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 last year’s subsidy and to free admission may be struck out if they are not applicable. 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.

R. J. SEDDON.

Notice published pursuant to the Provisions of Section 15 of “The Public Trust Office Consolidation Act, 1894.”

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 20th January, 1904.

NOTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken out administration, the Public Trustee has filed in the office of the Supreme Court at Wellington an election to administer the several intestate estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations, so far as known, are hereunder respectively set forth, their gross properties being estimated not to exceed £250 in each case.

John McGarry, late of Roscommon, in Ireland. Filed on the 7th day of January, 1904.

Bernard Whiteford, late of Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland, marine engineer. Filed on the 7th day of January, 1904.

John Mannix, late of Reefton, in the Provincial District of Nelson, miner. Filed on the 13th day of January, 1904.

Henry George Hewett, late of Stratford, in the Provincial District of Taranaki, groom. Filed on the 13th day of January, 1904.

Elizabeth Rachel Bicknell, late of Puketapu, in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, widow. Filed on the 13th day of January, 1904.

James Charnock, late of Auckland, in the Provincial District of Auckland, clerk. Filed on the 13th day of January, 1904.

Andrew Ruxton, late of Logie Buchan, in the County of Aberdeen, in Scotland, farmer. Filed on the 14th day of January, 1904.

John Ruxton, late of Hill of Fiddes Foveran, in the County of Aberdeen, in Scotland, physician. Filed on the 14th day of January, 1904.

A. A. K. DUNCAN,
Deputy Public Trustee.

Maori Owners desiring Reserves within Taumarunui Township to notify same to President of District Maori Land Council.

Otorohanga, 12th January, 1904.

ANY Maori owning land within Taumarunui Township who is desirous that any portion thereof should be reserved for his use and occupation in terms of subsection (d) of section 10 of “The Native and Maori Land Laws Amendment Act, 1902,” and the regulations thereunder, should notify me in writing of such desire prior to the 25th day of March next ensuing. He should state the number or numbers of the allotment or allotments that he wishes to have reserved, and the number of the block within which they are situated. The plan of the township showing the numbers of the blocks and the allotments can be seen at the post-office, Taumarunui, until the 25th of March next.

GEO. T. WILKINSON,
President Maniapoto-Tuwharetoa Maori Land Council.