Oct. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3211

SCHEDULE.

DESCRIPTION OF BOUNDARIES OF PROPOSED DRAINAGE DISTRICT OF KIMIHIA.

ALL that area in the Auckland Land District, in the Rangiriri Survey District, bounded by a line commencing at a point on the right bank of the Waikato River on the line of the northern boundary of Section 26, Taupiri Parish; thence to and along that boundary to the north-western corner of Section 25, Taupiri Parish; thence south-westerly along the western boundary of the said section to a public road; thence along that road, being the southern and eastern frontages of the said Section 25, and the eastern frontage of Section 29 to the road along the southern frontage of Section 397, Taupiri Parish; thence easterly along that road to the north-western corner of Section 396, Taupiri Parish; thence south-easterly along the western boundaries of Sections 396, 1, and 2; thence easterly along the southern boundary of the said Section 2; thence southerly along the eastern boundaries of Sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10; thence north-westerly along the south-western boundary of the said Section 10 to a public road; thence north-easterly along that road to its junction with a road along the north-eastern frontage to Section 21B; thence along the last-mentioned road, being the north-eastern and north-western frontages to the said Section 21B, the northern frontages of Section 21A, and Section 306, the south-eastern frontages of Sections 9 and 7, and the north-eastern frontages of Sections 7 and 9, to the boundary of the Huntly Town District; thence north-westerly along that boundary as described in the New Zealand Gazette of 1908, page 1128, to the right bank of the Waikato River; thence northerly along the said bank to the point of commencement.

J. B. HINE,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Result of Election of Trustees of a Drainage District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 13th October, 1919.

THE following result of the election of trustees of a drainage district has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

J. HISLOP,
Under-Secretary.

Woodlands Drainage District, County of Waikato—
Wilfred John Bridgman.
Albert Wells Chapman.
Albert William Chapman.
John Farrant.
James Grayden.
Joseph Beardon Maunder.
Edwin Thomas.

Result of Election of a Trustee of a Drainage District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 16th October, 1919.

THE following result of the election of a trustee of a drainage district has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

J. HISLOP,
Under-Secretary.

Steward Settlement Water-race District, County of Waitaki—Adam J. Elliot.

Revocation of the Prohibition of the Sale of certain Publications.

I, SIR FRANCIS HENRY DILLON BELL, His Majesty’s Attorney-General for the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the notice issued by me on the 6th day of June, 1919, in pursuance of the War Regulations of the 11th day of October, 1915, and prohibiting the sale of the periodical publication called “Novi Svijet” (New World), published at Auckland by or on behalf of the Jugo-Slav Publishing Company, and of all other publications issued in succession to the “Novi Svijet” or in substitution therefor, and having the same proprietor, publisher, printer, or editor. Dated this 17th day of October, 1919.

F. H. D. BELL,
Attorney-General.

Subsidies to Public Libraries in Country Districts.

Education Department,
Wellington, 21st October, 1919.

NOTICE is hereby given that the sum of £3,000 has been voted by Parliament for distribution to public libraries in country districts.

The distribution will take place about the 1st March, 1920, and no claim will be entitled to consideration that shall not have been sent in in due form and received by the Secretary, Education Department, Wellington, on or before the 28th January, 1920.

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 it is within a borough a reading-room where the books may be read, and containing newspapers and periodicals, must be provided for the public free of charge; in addition, it must not be situated in a borough, town, or town district the population of which exceeds fifteen hundred. The receipts for the year from subscriptions, donations, and voluntary contributions 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 distribution 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 £25—that is, in no case will the augmented amount on which distribution is based exceed £50.

3. The whole of the subsidy must be expended without delay in the purchase of books for the library.

4. It is particularly enjoined upon the authorities in charge of the public libraries concerned that a due proportion of the books purchased shall be books having a permanent value—that is, on books of more than merely passing interest.

5. 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 payments of the institution for the year ending on the 31st day of December, 1919, 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, 1919, 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; from voluntary contributions other than members’ subscriptions and from net proceeds of entertainments, 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 payments of the institution for the year herein specified; that the whole of the subsidy received in the year 1919 was expended in the purchase of books for the library; [and that by the rules of the library the reading-room 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 the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

[Signature.]

Declared at , this day of , 19 , before me— , Justice of the Peace [or Solicitor, or Notary Public].

[Here affix and cancel a stamp at 3s.]

[NOTE.—The words relating to the 1919 subsidy and to free admission may be struck out if they are not appli-