JAN. 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 279

OFFICES—continued.

• Correcting entry in the New Zealand Gazette No. 102, of 24th November, 1910.

DESIGNATION CHANGED.

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-
   retary, 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.
(Signature.)

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.

Notifying Land in the Canterbury Land District subject
to the Land for Settlements Act, 1908.

Office of Board of Land Purchase Commissioners,
Wellington, 24th January, 1911.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Land for Settle-
ments Act, 1908, and its amendments, I hereby
notify that the undermentioned Crown land, being the
land known as the Meadows Settlement, which has been
acquired under the said Acts, is subject to the said Acts
as from 30th November, 1910.

SCHEDULE.

MEADOWS SETTLEMENT.

ALL that area in the Canterbury Land District, containing
by admeasurement 454 acres and 33 perches, more or less,
being parts of Rural Sections 4014 and 8330, Block IX,
Arowhenua Survey District, and being the whole of the
land comprised in certificates of title Volume 100, folio 57,
and Volume 221, folio 138; as the same is delineated on
the plan marked L. 19417, deposited in the Head Office,
Department of Lands, at Wellington, and thereon coloured
pink.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands.