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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 148

1908, I, Joseph Gordon Coates, Postmaster-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, under the authority conferred by subsection (1) of section 21 of the Post and Telegraph Amendment Act, 1919, do hereby authorize the following Post officers to take declarations of Telegraph officers for the purposes of the said section 21 :—

Adamson, William James.
Alexander, James.
Ansell, Charles.
Ballantine, Thomas Arthur.
Bean, Edward Ridley de Lacey.
Bennetts, William Frederic.
Beswick, John George.
Beswick, William.
Blakley, Romulus.
Boland, Thomas James.
Bott, Louis Anthony.
Bourke, Laurence William.
Boyd, Robert Henry.
Braithwaite, Augustus Edward.
Brebner, Frederick.
Brennan, John.
Broadfoot, Joseph Elmsley.
Brooks, Vincent.
Bull, Leslie John.
Burton, Charles Hebert.
Bushell, John.
Canning, William.
Chisholm, Frederick James.
Clarke, Arthur Gale.
Clinch, George.
Coad, William Thomas.
Collier, James Thomas William.
Collins, James Francis.
Cooper, George Robert.
Cork, Henry Howard.
Coster, William.
Cricaton, Isaac Peter.
Crockcr, John Rockwell.
Cumming, Stephen.
Curtis, Paul.
Dale, James Crosbie.
Dall, George Bruce.
Daniel, Silvanus Gabriel.
Davis, Edward Harrison.
Diamond, William Martin Hayes.
Dixon, Horace.
Downer, Alfred William.
Dryden, Alfred Ponsford.
Empson, George Augustus.
Falck, Edward Nathan.
Fisher, William.
Fordham, Albert Edward.
Forrest, William.
France, James John.
Gee, William.
Gibson, Thomas Hans.
Gow, William John.
Grocott, Henry Dryden.
Harle, George Hutchinson.
Harrison, Stanley Mark.
Harwood, Percy Gibson.
Haszard, Sidney Eade.
Hawke, Arthur.
Herd, John Alexander.
Heron, Alexander.
Hewitt, Arthur Wolleston Pym.
Hodgson, James William
Holmes, James.
Holt, Clarence Kershaw.
Hounsell, Albert Edward.
Howard, Walter Richard.
Huggins, Herbert Augustus Robert.
James, George Thomas.
James, John.
Johnson, Francis Thomas Rayner.
Johnson, George Graham.
Johnston, Albert John Wilkins.
Johnston, Walter Thomas.
Johnston, Samuel James.

Kearney, John Joseph.
Kelly, Robert Daniel.
Kennedy, William Fletcher.
King, Thomas Theodore.
Laurenson, John.
Levy, George.
Macalister, Patrick John Sutherland.
McCrea, John Charles.
Macdonald, Duncan.
McDougall, Joseph Garroway.
McGregor, Arthur Eldred.
McGuire, Patrick Daly.
McHattie, James.
McKenzie, Andrew.
McKinnon, William.
McLeod, Alexander.
McNamara, George.
McNickle, William.
Mann, Charles Burgess.
Markmann, Arthur Theodore.
Martin, John Thomas.
Martin, Robert.
Mathews, Arthur Ernest.
Moore, Albert Ernest.
Moore, Henry Edgar.
Morris, William Russell.
Morrish, George Haynes.
Morton, John.
Muller, Albert Joseph.
Murdoch, Alexander Cathcart Wallace.
Nicholls, Charles Henry William.
O'Gorman, John Patrick.
Peebles, Robert.
Percy, Richard William.
Piesse, Francis George Bach.
Pirani, Arthur Samuel.
Poole, William Nelson.
Porter, Robert Woodside.
Potter, Charles Frederick.
Ramsay, John.
Redmond, John.
Reid, Thomas.
Roberts, Alfred.
Robertson, John.
Rule, James Gorthorn.
Salmon, Thomas Benjamin.
Scully, Francis Michael.
Slyfield, Harold Lincoln.
Snaith, Arthur Ernest.
Stapp, Ernest George.
Stephenson, George Octavius.
Stuart, Arthur Henry.
Sustins, Davy George Fletcher.
Thompson, William Richmond.
Thorne, James.
Tregonning, William Nicholas.
Tovey, Arthur Oliver.
Umbcrs, John Charles Augustus.
Waters, John Herbertson.
Willcox, William Alfred Smith.
Williams, John Thomas.
Williams, Richard.
Williamson, James Charles.
Woods, George William.
Worth, George.
Wylie, James Turner.
Young, Peter Alexander.
Youngman, Henry George.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Postmaster-General.

Meetings of Wellington Land Board.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 13th December, 1919.

NOTICE is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor-General has, in terms of section 48 of the Land Act, 1908, approved of meetings of the Wellington Land Board being held at the principal Land Office, Wellington, on Wednesday, 28th January, 25th February, 31st March, 28th April, 26th May, 30th June, 28th July, 25th August, 29th September, 27th October, and 24th November during the year 1920.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.

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;