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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 109

Subsidies to Public Libraries.

Education Department,
Wellington, 12th November, 1906.

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 6th February, 1907, 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 28th January, 1907.

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, 1906; 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, 1906, 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.

GEO. FOW LDS,
Minister of Education.

Notice of Intention to incorporate the Coromandel Hospital as a Separate Institution.

Hospitals Department,
Wellington, 19th December, 1906.

HIS Excellency the Governor in Council directs it to be notified, in terms of section 43 of “The Hospitals and Charitable Institutions Act, 1885,” that he has received a petition from not less than fifty subscribers to the Coromandel Hospital, praying that the said Hospital may be incorporated as a separate institution, and that if no counter-petition signed by an equal or greater number of subscribers shall have been delivered at the office of the Colonial Secretary within one month after the publication of this notice, or if the District Board shall not have lodged with the Colonial Secretary within the same time an objection to such petition, the Governor in Council will declare the said Coromandel Hospital to be a separate institution under the said Act.

GEO. FOW LDS.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies’ Registry Office,
Wellington, 15th December, 1906.

THE Loyal MatakI Lodge, No. 7848, situated at Murchison, is registered as a branch of the Nelson District of the New Zealand Branch of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Odd Fellows Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1882,” this 15th day of December, 1906.

ROBT. E. HAYES,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Sitting of Commission appointed under “The Urewera District Native Reserve Act, 1896.”

NOTICE is hereby given that the Commission appointed to inquire into and report upon the appeals lodged against the several orders made under “The Urewera District Native Reserve Act, 1896,” will resume its sittings at Whakatane on Thursday, the 3rd January, 1907, at 10 a.m.

GILBERT MAIR,
D. F. G. BARCLAY, \ Commissioners.
PARETENE NGATA, }

Wellington, 17th December, 1907.

Disbursement of Royalties on Timber, &c., paid to the Tokerau District Maori Land Council.

WHEREAS by section 7 of “The Maori Land Settlement Act Amendment Act, 1906,” it is provided that all moneys arising from royalties on timber, flax, or kauri-gum which have been heretofore paid to the Tokerau Maori Land Board or the President thereof in respect of any land not vested in the Board may be wholly or partially paid out by the President in satisfaction of any liability due upon the land in respect of survey costs or any other lawful and valid charge, and the receipt of the persons entitled to any such costs or charge shall be a sufficient acquittance and release to the Board or President from all manner of claims in respect thereof, and the balance of such moneys (if any) shall be paid to the Maori owners according to their relative claims or interests in the land :

Now, therefore, notice is hereby given that for the purpose of disbursing the royalty money paid with regard to the blocks mentioned in the Schedule hereunder an inquiry will be held at Russell on Tuesday, the 15th day of January, 1907, to ascertain the liabilities, in respect of survey costs or any other lawful or valid charge, due on the said blocks. After providing for the said liabilities, the balances due to the individual owners will be paid over immediately on completion of the inquiry. All persons interested are hereby notified to attend.

Dated at Auckland, this 10th day of December, 1906.

JAS. W. BROWNE,
President.

SCHEDULE.