Nov. 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3399

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.

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Forbidding the Issue of Money-orders and Forwarding of
Postal Correspondence for Oswald Schladitz and Co.,
Berlin W. 57.

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THE Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zea-
land having reasonable ground for supposing that the
company whose name and address are shown in the Schedule
hereunder is engaged in an immoral business, it is hereby
ordered, under section 9 of “The Post Office Act Amend-
ment Act, 1906,” that no money-order in favour of the said
company shall be issued, and that no postal packet addressed
to the said company (either by its own or any fictitious or
assumed name, or to such address without a name), shall
be either registered, forwarded, or delivered by the Post
Office of New Zealand.

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SCHEDULE.

OSWALD SCHLADITZ AND CO., Bülowstr. 54, part., Berlin W. 57.

Dated this 20th day of November, 1907.

JOHN G. FINDLAY,
For Postmaster-General.

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Officiating Ministers for 1907.—Notice No. 46.

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Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 20th November, 1907.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand passed in the fourth year
of the reign of His Majesty King Edward VII, and in-
tituled “The Marriage Act, 1904,” the following names of
Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act
are published for general information:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called
the Church of England.

The Reverend Wilfrid Arthur Butler.
The Reverend Charles George Ledger.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

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Examination for Mine-managers’ and Battery Superintendents’
Certificates.

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Mines Department,
Wellington, 27th September, 1907.

WRITTEN and oral examinations of candidates for cer-
tificates as First- and Second-class Mine-managers
and Battery Superintendents under “The Mining Act,
1905,” and First- and Second-class Mine-managers under
“The Coal-mines Act, 1905,” will be held on Tuesday,
the 21st January, 1908, and following days, at the Thames,
Waihi, Reefton, and Dunedin. All applications, with neces-
sary certificates, and fee of £1 by post-office order, should
be addressed to “The Secretary, Board of Examiners under
the Mining Act [or Coal-mines Act], Wellington,” and must
be received on or before the 21st December, 1907. Forms
of application may be obtained at any School of Mines, and
from Inspectors of Mines.

H. E. RADCLIFFE,
Secretary to the Board of Examiners.

[NOTE.—No candidate will be permitted to present himself for
examination unless he holds an authority from the Secretary stating
that his certificates of service have been accepted by the Board.]

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CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

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Rural Lands in Nelson Land District open for Selection
on Lease in Perpetuity.

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District Lands Office,
Nelson, 2nd September, 1907.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 240
of “The Land Act, 1892,” that the undermentioned
lands will be open for selection on lease in perpetuity, at
this office, on Thursday, the 5th day of December, 1907,
under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and “The
Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903.”

If more than one application is received for the same
land on the same day, the order of selection shall be
decided by ballot.

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SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.—BULLER COUNTY.—KONGAHU BLOCK.

Second-class Unsurveyed Heavy-bush Land.

Hilly pastoral country, with patches of excellent soil on
western side of Glass-eye Creek, remainder good soil of
sedimentary marine formation; covered with bush, com-
prising birch, rimu, and kamahi. Access by about two
miles of unformed track from the Little Wanganui River,
which is distant about thirty-five miles from Westport by
steamer.

F. W. FLANAGAN,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.