Jan. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 107

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the Head Office, Department of Lands, at Wellington.

Dated this 21st day of December, 1907.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

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 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, 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 members’ 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 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. FOWLDS,
Minister of Education.

Amended Dates of Sittings of the Supreme Court, Wellington Judicial District.

WE, five of the Judges of the Supreme Court of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers vested in us by “The Supreme Court Act, 1882,” hereby make the following rule respecting the places and times for holding sittings of the Supreme Court and sittings in Chambers for the Wellington Judicial District, such rule to be an amendment of the rule made by us on the twenty-third day of October, one thousand nine hundred and seven, namely:—

Sittings for the trial of criminal and civil cases, and of causes under “The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, 1904,” will be held in the Courthouse, NAPIER, to commence on the following day, at 10.30 a.m.:

Monday, 2nd March, instead of Monday, 16th March.

Sittings for the trial of criminal and civil cases, and of causes under “The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act, 1904,” will be held in the Courthouse, PALMERSTON NORTH, to commence on the following day, at 10.30 a.m.:

Monday, 16th March, instead of Monday, 2nd March.

And in all other respects, and save as herein expressly mentioned, we confirm the said order of the twenty-third day of October, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

Given under our hands, this twenty-third day of December, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

ROBERT STOUT, C.J.
JOSHUA STRANGE WILLIAMS, J.
J. E. DENNISTON, J.
THEO. COOPER, J.
FREDK. R. CHAPMAN, J.

Sittings of the Native Land Commission at Napier, Whanganui, and Otorohanga.

Rotorua, 7th January, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that sittings of the Native Land Commission will be held at the undermentioned places on the dates and for the purposes specified:—

At the Courthouse, at Napier, on Friday, the 7th day of February, 1908, at 10 a.m.

Business.—To define the portion of the Waimarama Block to be leased to Gertrude Ellen Meinertzhausen, as required by section 46 of “The Maori Land Claims Adjustment and Laws Amendment Act, 1907.”

At the Courthouse, at Whanganui, on Monday, the 10th day of February, 1908, at 2 p.m.

Business.—To deal with all lands in the Whanganui District.

At Otorohanga, on Thursday, the 20th day of February, 1908, at 10 a.m.

Business.—To deal with all lands in the “King” Country (or Rohe Potae) District.

ROBERT STOUT,
Chairman.

Notice of Election of Member of the Board of Conciliation for the Nelson Industrial District.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1905,” I, Edward Tregear, Registrar of Industrial Unions under the Act, do hereby notify that

WILLIAM JOHN BRAY,

of Waimea Road, Nelson, carpenter, representing workers’ unions, has been duly elected as a member of the Board of Conciliation in and for the Nelson Industrial District for the residue of the term of Thomas Hall Lukin, resigned.

Dated at Wellington, this 7th day of January, 1908.

EDW. TREGEAR,
Registrar of Industrial Unions.