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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 86

the control of an association, society, or club whose mem-
bership 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 Govern-
ment, 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, 1912; 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, 1912, 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 Cor-
porations Act, 1908, pounds shillings and
pence; from the subscriptions of members,
pounds shillings and pence; and
from voluntary contributions other than members’ sub-
scriptions, pounds shillings and
pence; that the library is public in the sense of belong-
ing to the public, and is not under the control of an
association, society, or club whose membership is com-
posed of a section of the community only; that the in-
formation 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 ex-
penditure 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 appli-
cable. 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.

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Education.

Introduction into Australia of Straw or Hay for Fodder
Purposes permitted.—Notice No. 1671.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 21st November, 1912.

WITH reference to the notification published in the New
Zealand Gazette of 14th November, 1912, that the
Commonwealth of Australia had prohibited the introduction
of straw or hay for fodder purposes, advice has now been
received that this restriction has been modified by permitting
the introduction into Australia of straw or hay for fodder
purposes from New Zealand.

W. F. MASSEY,
Minister of Agriculture and of Industries
and Commerce.

Notice to Mariners No. 139 of 1912.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—WONGA SHOAL LIGHTHOUSE DESTROYED.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 25th November, 1912.

THE Marine Board of Port Adelaide, South Australia, has
notified that the pile lighthouse on Wonga Shoal, in
the Gulf of St. Vincent, was destroyed on the morning of the
17th instant, owing to a vessel colliding with it.

A lightship bearing a fixed white light has been installed in
its place.

F. M. B. FISHER.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block V, Tarawera
Survey District, for Forest-plantation Purposes.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the
provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to take
the land described in the Schedule hereto for forest-planta-
tion purposes. And notice is hereby further given that the
plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the
post-office at Rotorua, and is there open for inspection;
and that all persons affected by the taking of the said land
should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the
taking of the said land, set forth the same in writing, and
send such writing, within forty days from the first publica-
tion of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works, at
Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

All in the Auckland Land District; as the same are more
particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as
above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister
of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Pro-
vincial District.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 21st day of
November, 1912.

A. L. HERDMAN,
For Minister of Public Works.

Bonus for the Production of Quicksilver.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 18th April, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given that a bonus of fourpence (4d.)
per pound will be paid on the production of the first
one hundred thousand pounds weight (100,000 lb.) of good
marketable retorted quicksilver, free from all impurities,
from any mine in New Zealand, on the following conditions,
that is to say:—

1. That at least one-third of the quantity is produced on
   or before the 31st March, 1914, and the remaining two-thirds
   on or before the 31st March, 1915.

2. No bonus will be payable until the whole of the one
   hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.) of quicksilver has
   been produced as stipulated to the satisfaction of an officer
   to be appointed by the Minister of Mines, and on whose
   certificate alone the bonus will be paid.

3. In the event of more than one person producing the
   required quantities of quicksilver before the dates named,
   inquiry will be made by the officer above referred to, when, if
   it is found that each applicant is equally entitled to a bonus,
   the amount will be divided in proportion to the quantities
   produced by each applicant, but in no case shall any bonus be
   paid until at least one hundred thousand pounds (100,000 lb.)
   of quicksilver has been produced in the aggregate.

JAMES COLVIN,
Minister of Mines.