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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 106

SCHEDULE III.

Scale of Fees to be charged for the Inspection and Dis-
fection of Gooseberries, Raspberries, and other Small
Plants of like Nature, at the Discretion of the Director
of Agriculture.

25 or less … … … … … 0 9
Over 25 and not more than 50 … … … 1 3
Over 50 and not more than 100 … … … 2 3
Over 100 and not more than 200… … … 3 3
Over 200 and not more than 300… … … 4 0
Over 300 and not more than 400… … … 4 6
Over 400 and not more than 500… … … 5 0
Over 500, for every additional 100 or part thereof 0 6

SCHEDULE IV.

For cuttings of plants and trees, small seedlings not in
pots, strawberry plants, and bulbs :—

Every 1,000 or part thereof … … … 1 0

19. All fees payable under these regulations shall be
    payable in advance and before the work of inspection be
    commenced. Consignments on which fees have not been
    paid within twelve hours of delivery may be destroyed
    or otherwise disposed of as the Under-Secretary for Agri-
    culture may direct.

20. No charge shall be made for the destruction of
    waste or condemned fruit.

21. In the event of the total destruction of a consign-
    ment, the Under-Secretary for Agriculture may, if in his
    opinion the circumstances warrant it, grant a remission
    of not more than 75 per cent. of the inspection fees paid
    on the condemned consignment.

22. No compensation will be paid for any fruit, fruit
    trees, plants, cuttings, buds, seeds, pits, scions, cases,
    packages, or transportable material destroyed under these
    regulations.

23. The foregoing orders do not apply to any port or
    part of the State of Western Australia north of the 26th
    parallel of south latitude.

24. The importation into the State of Western Australia
    south of the 26th parallel of south latitude of fruit,
    fruit trees, plants, cuttings, grafts, buds, seeds, pits,
    or scions is prohibited, except through the Ports of Al-
    bany and Fremantle.

Subsidies to Public Libraries.

Education Department,
Wellington, 6th November, 1907.

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 4th February,
1908, 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 27th
January, 1908.

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 member-
   ship 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 Secre-
   tary, 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, 1907; 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, 1907, 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 mem-
bers’ subscriptions, pounds shillings and
pence; that the library is public in the sense of
belonging to the public, and is not under the control
of an association, society, or club whose membership
is composed of a section of the community only; 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 be-
lieving 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. FOWLDS,
Minister of Education.

Sitting of the Native Land Commission at Rotorua.

NOTICE is hereby given that a sitting of the Native
Land Commission, to inquire into the blocks of lands
named in the Schedule hereto, will be held at Rotorua on
Thursday, the 19th day of December, 1907, at 10 o’clock in
the forenoon.

Dated at Port Awanui, this 12th day of December, 1907.

ROBERT STOUT,
Chairman.

SCHEDULE.

THE blocks of land from Te Puke to Matata, and thence
inland, owned by the Arawa Tribe.

“Conscience Money” received.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 13th December, 1907.

THE Minister of Finance directs me to acknowledge the
receipt of 5s. in stamps, forwarded with the memo-
randum, “Kindly pay to Public Account.”

ROBERT J. COLLINS,
Receiver-General.

“Conscience Money” received.

Stamp Department,
Wellington, 17th December, 1907.

THE Minister of Stamp Duties directs me to acknow-
ledge the receipt of a one-pound bank-note and
thirteen shillings in penny postage-stamps, which were for-
warded to this Department by some person unknown as
“amount due to the Crown for death duties.”

C. A. HICKSON,
Commissioner of Stamps.