EDUCATION: SUBSIDIES TO PUBLIC LIBRARIES (PAPERS RELATING TO DISTRIBUTION OF). [In Continuation of E.-10, 1886.]

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1887 Session I, E-10

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1887. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: SUBSIDIES TO PUBLIC LIBRARIES (PAPERS RELATING TO DISTRIBUTION OF). [In Continuation of E.-10, 1886.]

Presented to both Houses of the. General Assembly by Command of His Excellency.

I.—Extbact from the 3tew Zealand Gazette, 2nd September, 1886. Education Department, Wellington, 23rd August, 1886. Notice is hereby given that the sum of £4,000 has been voted by Parliament for distribution to public libraries. The distribution will take place on the Bth February, 1887, and no claim will he 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 31st January, 1887. 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 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. A nominal addition of £25 will be made to the amount of each library's receipts, and the vote of £4,000 will be divided in proportion to the amounts as thus augmented, but so as that no institution shall receive more than £50. 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, 1886 ; 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 lam Chairman [or Secretary or Treasurer] of the [name of institution]; that during the year ending on the 31st day of December, 1886, the receipts of the aforesaid institution for the maintenance of the library only was as follows : From rates levied by a local governing body under " The Public Libraries Act, 1869," pounds shillings and pence; from the subscriptions of members, pounds shillings and pence ; and from voluntary contributions other than members' subscriptions, pounds shillings and pence. And Ido solemnly and sincerely declare 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 expenditure of the institution for the year ending on the 31st day of December, 1886; and that by the rules of the institution admission to 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 an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled " The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882." "g & (Signature.) h| Declared at , this day of , 188 , l^S before me — 'm ° m Justice of the Peace [or Solicitor, or Notary Public]. [Note. —The words relating to free admission may be struck out if the library is not in a borough. 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. Bobeht Stout.

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ll.—Exteact from Ninth Annual Ebpoet of the Ministee of Education. Against the vote of £4,000 for aid to public libraries, there was a first charge of £27 6s. sd. for payments made at the beginning of the financial year on account of grants deferred from the preceding year for consideration. On the Bth February, the day appointed for the distribution of the subsidy, the sum available —£3,972 13s. 7d.—was apportioned to 366 libraries, 6 of which received the maximum grant of £50, while £3,672 13s. 7d. was allotted to the remaining 360, so as to give a dividend of 4s. 9-J-d. for each pound of the sum on which each library's share was to be calculated. This sum in each case was the income of 1886 from subscriptions, donations, and rates, with £25 added. At the time of making the division a large number of the claims that had been made were informal or incomplete, and in every such case, if the claim appeared to be one that could probably be substantiated, a proportionate dividend was reserved. A further investigation of those claims resulted, however, in the rejection of seven of them, and the reduction of six others, by which processes £69 3s. 7d. was saved. On the other hand, it was found that two claims that had been rejected could bo established by the production of better evidence, and that two others had been understated ; and for these reasons £17 11s. 2d. was paid out of the £69 3s. 7d. that had been saved, so that the whole distribution amounted to £51 12s. sd. less than the sum available. The number of libraries that received grants was 361. A list of these libraries and of the amounts granted is given in another paper (E.-10). The distribution according to eduoation districts is as follows :—

TABLE Y.—Public Libraries Subsidy.

III.—List showing Distribution of Subsidy in Detail. [The word "income" here means income from rates, subscriptions, and donations, and net proceeds of lectures, entertainments, &c., for the year 1886.]

Education Districts. No. of Libraries. Income on which Subsidy is calculatod. Amount of Subsidy. Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson 3riej Westland Canterbury 3outh Canterbury Dtago southland 85 11 14 16 25 5 30 8 9 65 10 55 28 £ 8. d. 1,853 16 9 155 5 3 616 0 2 363 0 3 854 16 5 175 9 3 473 1 1 213 4 0 229 6 6 1,292 12 5 450 10 11 1,013 18 0 526 14 2 £ s. d. 847 7 4 102 15 6 220 18 8 182 5 4 334 4 0 71 15 6 292 3 5 98 13 11 108 10 8 658 13 5 154 5 9 556 6 9 293 0 11 Totals 361 8,217 15 2 3,921 1 2

Library. I Income. Subsidy. Auokl. lND. Alexandra Arai and Mangawai Arapoliue Aratapu Auckland Bombay Cambridge Dairy Flat Dargaville Devonport Driving Creek Hamilton Helensville Hobsonville Howick Kaeo Kaipara Plats Ivaitaia Kaiwaka .. Kajno Katikati .. Kaukapakapa Kawakawa Kihikihi .. £ s. a. 18 19 2 3 0 0 5 10 0 35 2 3 616 0 6 5 10 0 76 14 6 2 10 0 11 17 5 13 18 0 5 10 0 30 17 5 4 11 6 2 5 6 4 3 2 4 11 6 9 7 0 8 2 6 2 0 0 9 2 6 4 5 0 6 8 0 37 4 6 8 7 3 3 18 0 5 2 6 3 14 0 10 17 3 4 17 6 2 15 0 2 3 9 8 3 0 2 10 0 3 12 6 £ S. d. 10 10 1 6 13 10 7 5 9 14 7 2 50 0 0 7 5 9 24 6 0 6 11 5 8 16 2 10 9 9 7 5 9 13 6 11 7 13 6 10 4 6 19 4 7 13 8 4 1 7 18 2 6 9 0 8 2 11 6 19 9 7 10 1 14 17 4 7 19 5 6 18 2 7 3 10 6 17 2 8 11 4 7 2 9 6 12 7 6 9 10 7 18 4 6 11 5 6 16 10 Kurneo Lichfield .. Lucas Creek Malmrangi Mangapai Mangawai Beach .. Mangere Matakana Matakana Lower .. Matakolie •'• I

Library. Income. Subsidy. Auckland—i continued. 6 s. a. 12 15 0 3 15 0 5 10 0 78 9 9 3 10 0 5 9 6 15 12 6 2 0 0 12 12 6 5 19 6 4 17 6 11 1 0 5 17 6 8 16 6 38 10 0 33 2 0 14 18 8 5 5 0 3 0 0 13 13 0 4 5 0 7 16 0 6 5 0 2 10 0 13 16 0 3 5 0 5 18 0 3 7 G 6 2 0 12 7 10 30 18 0 3 3 0 69 5 6 54 8 2 £ s. a. 9 0 5 6 17 5 7 5 9 24 14 6 6 16 2 7 5 8 9 14 2 6 9 0 8 19 9 7 8 0 7 2 9 8 12 3 7 7 6 8 1 4 15 3 5 13 17 9 9 10 10 7 4 6 6 13 9 9 4 7 6 19 9 7 16 8 7 9 4 6 11 5 9 5 5 6 15 0 7 7 7 6 15 6 7 8 7 8 18 8 18 7 1 6 14 6 22 10 5 18 19 5 Maungataperc Maungatawhiri Valley Maungaturoto Mercury Bay Miranda .. Mongormi Mount Eden Mount Roskill Newmarket Ngaruawaliia Northcoto Ohinemuri Okaihau Omaha Onehunga.. Opotiki Otahuhu Palii Pakuranga Papakura Paparoa .. Parua Paterangi Pokeno Port Albert Pukekohe Pukekohe East Raglan Rodney Ruatangata Tairua Tauhoa Tauranga .. .. ' To Aroha ..

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Library. Income. , , Subsidy. Auckland—c< Te Awamutu To Kopuru Thames Tokatea Totara Tuhikaramea Turua Waikiekie Wainui .Waipu Wairangi Wairoa South Waiuku Waiwera Upper Whakatane Whangaroi Whitfora .. mtinued. £ s. d. 12 18 8 66 15 4 122 9 6 5 15 0 8 8 6 2 5 0 15 16 0 3 15 0 8 4 9 22 19 0 3 14 6 19 11 1 9 11 0 2 10 0 17 3 6 42 17 4 2 9 (i £ s. d. 9 1 3 21 18 6 35. 4 8 7 6 11 7 19 8 6 10 2 9 15 0 6 17 4 7 18 7 11 9 2 6 17 2 10 12 11 8 5 1 6 11 5 10 1 0 16 4 2 6 11 3 Total .- •• : 1,853 16 9 . 847 7 4 Taeana .KI. Huirangi Inglewood .. • • Lepperton JIanaia New Plymouth Oakura Omata Opunake ... Kahotu Stratford .. Waitara 2 15 0 51 18 2 3 5 0 7 5 0 48 10 11 4 10 0 2 15 0 5 10 0 4 0 0 9 0 0 15 10 2 6 12 7 18 7 6 6 14 11 7 14 1 17 11 5 7 0 11 6 12 7 7 5 8 6 19 11 8 2 5 9 13 6 Total .. 155 5 3 102 15 6 Wangaj Clifton Feilding .. Fordell .. Poxton Hawera Kakaramca Makino Road Marton Palmerston North .. Patea Sandon Tnrakina Tutaenui, Upper .. Wangarrai NUI. 32 12 6 53 0 8 13 5 0 24 0 0 38 4 0 13 7 6 4 11 0 47 0 2 78 13 6 57 11 6 8 10 10 4 9 9 17 4 225 11 3 13 15 5 18 12 9 9 2 9 11 14 1 15 1 11 ■ 9 3 4 ' 7 12 17 4 0 24 15 5 19 15 1 7 17 10 8 8 4 8 0 7 50 0 0 Total .. 616 0 2 220 18 8 Wbllinc 3TON. 39 ]5 0 17 3 0 14 14 8 3 7 4 11 4 9 6 18 6 173,10 0 7 12 6 19 0 0 2, 10 0 20 2 0 4 0 0 6 18 6 11 3 0 2 16 0 15 19 0 Cartel-ton .. Featherston Hutt, Upper Kaiwaiwai Tvarori Makara Masterton Ohariu Otaki Paliautanui Petone Tenui and Castlepoint .. ! Uriti Waihenga Wainuiomata Wellington Free 15 9 4 10 1 4 9 9 10 6 15 5 8 13 1 7 12 7 47 10 0 7 15 10 10 10 3 6 31 5 12 4 1 (> 18 C 7 12 6 8 12 8 0 12 11 9 15 7 Total 363 0 3 .182 5 Hawke's Bay. 2 0 0 12 17 3 12 7 6 3!) 4 3 5-12 6 26 1 0 ]8 8 3 JO 12 0 10 5 0 203 3 2 8-14 '0 Eskdale .. •• •'• Glenross Hampden Hastings .. Havelook .. Herbertville Kaikora .. jMaraekakaho Mohaka .. Napier .. . • • • Norsewood 6 9 0 9 0 11 8 18 7 15 6 10 7 6 4 12 4 0 10 7 5 8 10 1 8 8 5 50 0 0 8 10

Library. Income. Subsidy. Hawke's Bay--continued. £ s. d. 23 7 0 12 12 0 6 0 6 16 15 0 18 3 6 10 2 G 48 16 0 17 1 0 51 17 6 101 5 6 50 6 0 25 7 0 88 7 0 23 II 0 Ormondville Patangata Patutahi .. .. Petane .. .. Takapau Tamumu Taradale .. . ■ ■ ■ | Te Arai .. .. .. j Tomoana Turanganui (Gisbornc) Waipawa .. Waipukurau Wairoa Woodville £ s. d. 11 11 0 8 19 8 7 8 2 9 19 6 10 6 3 8 7 10 17 12 7 10 0 11 18 7 4 30 3 4 17 19 9 12 0 7 IS 2 7 11 11 11 Total .. 854 16 5 334 4 0 Mableoei Blenheim Canvastown Havelock .. Pictori Eenwick IUOH. 120 9 9 7 17 6 18 3 2 0 24 16 0 8 14 0 34 15 3 7 17 2 10 8 3 11 17 10 6 17 2 Total .. 175 9 3 71 15 6 Nelsc IS". Buller (Central) Cb arleston Clifton Clifton Terrace Collingwoocl Denniston Dovedale Eighty-eight Valley Fern Town Pox Hill .. Hampden Karamea .. .. Motuoka .. Motupiko Moutere Lower Nelson Institute Pangatotara Eeefton Richmond Iiiwaka .. .. Sarau Spring Grove Stanley Brook Stoke Tadmor Valley Takaka East Takaka Lower Waimangaroa Waimea South Waimea West .. .. 7 10 0 34 14 0 4 6 0 7 5 0 11 15 3 40 2 0 2 2 0 2 10 0 2 9 0 10 19 0 14 15 1 3 2 6 12 10 0 18 4 8 3 8 6 134 14 0 7 la 0 51 18 0 16 10 0 11 15 6 3 6 3 3 16 3 8 0 3 1 3 4 10 0 5 0 0 8 3 0 31 1G 0 14 13 0 3 0 0 7 15 3 14 5 3 7 0 0 7 14 1 8 15 7 15 11 1 6 9 G 6 11 4 6 11 2 8 11 9' 9 9 11 6 14 4 8 19 2 9 2 7 6 15 10 38 3 0* 7 15 9 18 7 5 9 18 38 15 8 6 15 3 G 14 2 6 15 8 6 14 2 7 0 11 7 3 4 7 18 5 13 11 4 9 9 5 6 13 10 Total .. 473 1 1 292 3 5 Gre^s Ahaura Brunner Cobden Dunganville Greyrnou th Nelson Creek No Town Orwell Creek 29 2 G 29 14 6 3 10 0 23 ,r) 0 72 19 0 28 10 0 21 8 0 5 0 0 12 18 7 13 1 5 6 16 2 11 10 6 23 7 11 12 15 7 11 0 5 7 34 98 13 11 Total .. 213 4 0 98 13 11 Westl/ Big Dam .. .. .. j Callaghan's .. Goldsborough .. Hokitika (Westland Institute) ; Kuniara Okuru Bimu Boss Stafford .. VND. 11 0 0 9 0 0 12 0 0 99 10 0 23 ,6 6 10 0 0 16 15 0 17 0 0 30 15 0 8 12 0 8 2 5 , 8 16 9 29 14 10 11 10 10 8 7 5 9 19 5 10 0 8 13 6 4 229. .6 6 108 10 8 Total ..

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{Approximate Cost of Paper.— Preparation, nil; printing (1,525 copies), £i 15s. OdJ

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Library. Income. Subsidy. Otago— cor, itinucd. £ s. d. 1 18 0 4 12 0 22 1 6 32 15 0 6 7 0 4 15 6 10 5 0 15 12 3 4 10 2 10 0 14 31 0 2 3 6 21 8 0 17 8 5 17 9 0 24 9 0 69 13 6 11 0 0 2 0 0 8 10 0 54 19 6 19 7 6 16 3 0 24 10 0 29 18 0 2 4 0 7 5 6 244 6 3 15 10 0 5 19 6 9 3 6 8 17 6 11 10 0 2 10 6 69 16 0 5 5 0 10 1 1 14 19 10 14 8 0 10 19 1 23 3 3 29 18 0 19 3 0 4 8 0 10 5 6 5 18 6 6 16 3 2 17 0 7 15 1 2 14 6 2 19 0 4 9 6 Blaekstone Hill Blueskin Clinton Clyde Duntroon Evans's Plat Glenkenich Greytown Hamilton's He-riot Highcliffe Hvde .. .. Kaitangata Kakanui .. Kurow Kyebura .. Lawrence .. Manuherikia Merton Miller's Plat Milton Mornington Mosgiel Naseby Ngapara North-east Harbour North-east Valley Oamaru .. .. .. I Ophir Otepopo Otiake Outram Palmerston Peninsula Port Chalmers Portobello Pukeuri Ravensbourne Roslyn Roxburgh Stirling Tapanui .. Teanoraki.. Tuapeka Mouth Waihola Gorge Waikoikoi.. Waitahuna Waitepeka Waiwora Walton and Pairfield Wangaloa Warepa £ b. d. 7 2 10 7 15 11 4 11 13 15 11 7 9 10 7 2 3 8 8 5 9 14 0 6 18 9 6 11 5 9 8 11 6 9 10 11 1 8 10 2 8 10 2 10 11 16 3 22 12 4 8 12 0 6 9 0 8 O 1 19 2 1 10 12 0 9 16 7 11 10 6 13 1 10 6 9 11 7 14 2 50 0 0 9 13 6 7 8 0 8 3 3 8 1 7 8 14 5 6 11 (i 22 12 11 7 4 7 8 7 5 9 11 1 9 8 3 8 11 9 11 10 1 13 2 4 10 10 11 7 0 6 8 8 7 7 7 9 7 12 0 6 13 1 7 16 6 6 12 6 6 13 8 7 0 10 Total .. 1,013 18 0 556 C 9 Souths Arrow Bullemlale Calcium Cardrona Dipton Edendale .. Flint's Bush Portrose G ore Hokonui .. Knapdale Limehills .. Neck Nightcaps Oban Orepuki Otautau .. Owaka Pembroke Pukerau .. Queenstown Riversdale Riverton Skipper's Waikaia Wallacetown Woodlands Wyndham lND. 19 13 8 77 0 0 13 7 0 3 15 0 19 4 6 11 7 6 2 16 0 5 15 0 19 16 6 5 11 6 7 7 6 9 2 3 7 7 0 14 14 0 3 13 6 9 9 0 47 4 C 7 3 0 4 0 0 15 10 0 54 19 3 48 10 3 27 7 0 9 0 0 67 12 3 2 10 0 4 5 0 8 13 0 10 13 C 24 7 4 9 3 2 6 17 4 30 11 4 8 13 9 6 12 10 7 6 11 10 14 1 7 6 2 7 14 8 8 2 11 7 14 fi 9 9 8 C 17 0 8 4 7 17 5 1 7 13 7 6 18 9 9 13 (> 19 2 0 17 11 2 12 10 1 8 2 5 22 2 5 6 11 7 6 19 9 8 0 10 Total 526 14 2 293 0 11

Library. Incoine. Subsidy. North Cani £ s. a. 50 1 0 27 16 0 2 17 0 66 8 0 4 2 0 5 9 0 15 0 0 11 17 0 344 14 3 11 1 0 4 0 0 33 6 3 6 9 0 3 0 0 7 8 1 2 8 0 5 15 7 15 1 3 2 2 0 42 12 9 67 1 6 70 5 6 8 0 0 6 9 0 2 0 0 10 0 0 9 19 9 9 7 6 6 0 6 13 11 6 10 13 8 4 9 0 31 13 6 4 2 0 14 4 6 2 4 6 8 19 4 10 17 6 6 11 0 16 17 9 6 8 0 2 0 0 8 5 6 32 5 6 18 7 0 24 7 6 7 0 G 2 2 6 15 5 0 5 12 0 33 15 0 4 17 6 12 11 6 6 9 0 6 2 0 27 2 8 16 10 0 9 10 35 7 7 9 14 0 17 0 0 3 16 0 2 8 0 2 0 0 9 18 6 Akaroa Ashburton Ashley Belfast .. Brookside .. Carleton .. .. .. Chatham Islands .. Ghortsey .. Christchurch Courtenay Oust Dunsandel Duvauchelle's Bay .. Ellesmere Eyreton .. Eyretort West Oebbio's Valley Glentunnol Greenpark Heathcote Lower Kaiapoi Kaikoura Kaikoura Suburban Kill inchy Kimberley Kirwee Kowai Bush Kowai North Lakeside .. Leeston' Lincoln Lobum Lyttelton .. Mandeville Plains Methven Mount Grey Downs Mount Somers Okain's Oxford Papanui Pigeon Bay Port Victoria Prebbleton Bangiora .. Eicoarton Richmond Rotherham Russell's Plat Southbridge Southbrook South Kakaia St. Albans.. Sum nor Tai Tapu .. Templuton Terewera Tinwald .. View Hill Waiau "Waikari Wahnakariri Upper Wainui Watei'ton Willowby .. Woodend £ s. <3. 17 18 7 12 VI 3 6 13 1 21 16 8 6 19 0 7 5 G 9 11 1 8 16 1 50 0 0 8 12 3 6 18 7 15 18 7 7 10 4 6 13 9 7 18 1 <; io ii 7 7 0 9 11 5 6 9 6 16 3 2 21 19 11 22 15 2 7 17 8 7 10 3 6 9 0 8 7 3 8 7 2 8 4 3 7 8 3 9 4 4 8 10 6 7 0 8 13 10 9 6 19 0 9 7 5 6 10 1 8 2 3 8 11 7 7 10 9 10 0 1 7 10 0 6 9 0 7 19 0 13 13 8 10 7 3 11 15 11 7 13 0 6 9 7 9 12 4 7 6 2 14 0 8 7 2 9 8 19 6 7 10 8 7 8 7 12 9 1 9 18 3 8 2 8 14 8 6 8 5 9 10 0 8 6 17 7 6 10 11 6 9 0 8 5 8 Total 1,292 12 5 058 13 5 I South Canj Fairlie Creek Geraldine Gleniti Pareora Upper Pleasant Point St. Andrew's Temuka .. Timaru Waimate Waitohi Plat 'EBBUBY. 15 2 0 32. 0 2 33 0 0 3 14 0 30 5 6 11 8 0 43 17 6 238 19 6 29 17 6 12 6 9 9 11 7 13 12 S 13 17 1 6 17 1 13 4 1 8 13 11 16 9 1 50 0 0 13 2 2 8 18 4 Total .. 450 10 11 154 5 9 Otagi I. Anderson's Bay Awamoko Bannockburn .. .. I 6 12 0 4 0 0 8 17 0 7 11 0 6 18 7 8 19