Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service
Medal.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 14th December, 1910.

H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary
Forces Long-service Medal to

Lieutenant-Colonel WILLIAM GRIEVE DUTHIE, 1st Bat-
talion Wellington Rifles,

he having a total service to 31st October, 1910, entitling
him thereto of twenty years and forty-seven days.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long-service
Medal.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th December, 1910.

H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary
Forces Long-service Medal to

Captain JAMES PORTEOUS THOMSON, Active List,

he having a total service to 20th September, 1910, entitling
him thereto of twenty years two hundred and thirty-five
days.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Award of the Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers'
Decoration.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 16th December, 1910.

H IS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to
approve of the award of the Colonial Auxiliary
Forces Officers' Decoration to

Captain ROBERT B. MACKAY, Active List,

he having a total rank and commissioned service to 14th
November, 1910, entitling him thereto of twenty-six
years and eighty-seven days.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

Subsidies to Public Libraries.

Education Department,
Wellington, 26th October, 1910.

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 3rd February,
1911, 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, 1911.

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 Sec-
   retry, 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, 1910; 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,
1910, '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 Part I of
the Libraries and Mechanics' Institutes Act, 1908, or the
Municipal Corporations Act, 1908, 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 expendi-
ture 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 the Justices
of the Peace Act, 1908.

Declared at , this day of , 191 ,
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 ap-
plicable. 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.

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Education.

Notice to the Public Trustee.

Education Department,
Wellington, 13th December, 1910.

WHEREAS Lina Maitland is at present detained as
an inmate of the Wellington-Receiving Home, a
school established under the Industrial Schools Act, 1908,
and such inmate is entitled to certain moneys in the hands
of the Public Trustee :

And whereas it appears expedient to issue the directions
hereinafter set forth :

Now, I, David Buddo, Acting Minister of Education,
do hereby, in exercise of the powers conferred by sec-
tion 38 of the Industrial Schools Act, 1908, direct the
Public Trustee to take possession of all such moneys and
apply the same for the benefit of such inmate, in accord-
ance with the provisions of such last-mentioned Act.

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Education.