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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.

Officiating Ministers for 1908.—Notice No. 3.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 21st January, 1908.

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 intituled “The Marriage Act, 1904,” the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

The Reverend Alexander Gow.

The Reverend Alexander Adam Murray.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Notice by the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

To the owner or owners of a parcel of land, containing 50 acres, more or less, being Allotment No. 13, Parish of Kirikiroa, in the Provincial District of Auckland. Bounded on the north by a road, 875 links; on the east by Allotment 13A, 2970 links; on the south by Allotment 14, 1715 links; on the south-west by Allotment 12, 2001 links; and on the north-west by a road, 1496 links. The land was Crown-granted to Charles Christie, described as a private of the 4th Waikato Militia, who cannot now be traced.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has instituted inquiries, and has not thereby ascertained who the owner or owners of the above-described land is or are, and believes that such owner is, or owners are, not in the Dominion :

Now, this notice calls upon such owner or owners, within six months of the date of the publication of this notice in this Gazette, to establish to the satisfaction of the Public Trustee his or their title to the land specified in this notice; and, if such owner does or owners do not, within the time limited, so establish his or their title, the Public Trustee will exercise the powers and authorities granted to him in and by “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

Dated this 17th day of January, 1908.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

STATEMENT of the average amount of Liabilities and Assets of the Bank of New Zealand, in New Zealand, during the Quarter ended 31st December, 1907.

LIABILITIES.

£ s. d.
Notes in circulation .. .. .. 899,933 13 1
Bills in circulation .. .. .. 45,157 8 7
Balances due to other Banks .. .. 28,324 1 5
Government deposits .. .. .. 1,952,428 3 3
Other deposits—
Not bearing interest .. .. .. 5,102,775 13 2
Bearing interest .. .. .. 4,654,735 2 4
Total average liabilities .. £12,683,354 1 10

ASSETS.

£ s. d.
Coined gold and silver and other coined metal .. .. .. 2,007,408 15 3
Gold and silver in bullion or bars .. .. .. 101,076 5 6
Notes and bills of other Banks .. .. 102,973 1 10
Balances due from other Banks .. .. 1,690 3 2
Landed property .. .. .. 106,133 17 9
Amount of all other securities—

1. Notes and bills discounted .. .. 949,384 4 4
2. Colonial Government securities .. 1,068,621 0 0
3. Other funded securities .. .. ..
4. Debts due to the Bank (exclusive of debts abandoned as bad) .. .. 6,895,910 11 0
5. Securities not included under the above heads .. .. .. 863,587 14 3
   Total average assets .. .. £12,096,785 13 1

4-per-cent. guaranteed stock, £1,000,000. (Interest, £20,000 for six months, paid 1st November, 1907.)
Preference shares fully paid up issued to the Crown under “Bank of New Zealand Act, 1903,” £500,000.
Ordinary share capital, £500,000.
Rate of the last dividend declared to the shareholders on preference shares, 7½ per cent. per annum.
Rate of the last dividend declared to the shareholders on ordinary shares, 10 per cent. per annum.
Amount of the last dividend declared to the shareholders on preference shares, £37,500.
Amount of the last dividend declared on ordinary shares, £50,000.
Amount of the reserved profits at the time of declaring such dividend, £281,675.

Dated at Wellington, this 13th day of January, 1908.

W. CALLENDER, General Manager.
F. E. CORKILL, Accountant.