EDUCATION: SUBSIDIES TO PUBLIC LIBRARIES (PAPERS RELATING TO DISTRIBUTION OF). [In continuation of E.-10, 1887.]

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1899 Session I, E-13

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1899. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: SUBSIDIES TO PUBLIC LIBRARIES (PAPERS RELATING TO DISTRIBUTION OF). [In continuation of E.-10, 1887.]

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

I.—Extract from the New Zealand Gazette, Ist December, 1898. Education Department, Wellington, 25th November, 1898. Notice is hereby given that the sum of £2,000 has been voted by Parliament for distribution to public libraries. The distribution will take place on the Bth February, 1899, and no claim shall 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 31st January, 1899. 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. 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, 1898 ; and such declaration must be on the form provided for the purpose, which form shall be as follows : — Declaeation. I, [Name], of [Place of abode], [Occupation i, 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, 1898, 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 "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, 1898; 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." (Signature.) Declared at , this day of , 1899, 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 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. W. C. Walkee.

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11. Exteact feom Twenty-second Annual Report of the Ministee of Education. Previous to the vote of last session granting .£2,000 for aid to public libraries, there had been no vote for that purpose since 1886, when the amount for distribution was £4,000. In the division of the vote for 1886 a nominal addition of £25 was made to the amount of the income of each library derived from subscriptions, donations, and rates, provided that the receipts for the year were not less than £2, and the vote was divided according to the amounts thus augmented. In the present instance, in order to secure a fair share to the smaller libraries, the total subsidy being smaller, the further limitation was made that no library should receive credit for a larger income than £75 —that is, in no case should the augmented amount on which distribution was based exceed £100. In accordance with a Gazette notice of the 25th November, 1898, the day appointed for the distribution of the subsidy was the Bth February, 1899, and on that date the amount of the vote was divided among the 285 libraries from which applications, each accompanied by a statutory declaration on the proper form, had been received. The result was that a dividend of 3s. 3 - 3 d. was given for each pound of the sum on which each library's share was calculated. The possible minimum was thus £4 Bs. 5d., and the maximum amount paid to any library was £16 7s. 7d. Some libraries supplied with the proper forms failed to send in formal claims by the 31st January, the date fixed by the Gazette notice, and did not therefore participate in the vote. The number of libraries aided in February, 1887, was 361; those aided this year were 285 in number; possibly the cessation of the grant between 1887 and 1898 led to a loss of interest in the case of some of the smaller libraries, resulting in their extinction. The following table shows the distribution according to education districts: —

Summary of Distribution of 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 1898.]

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Education Districts. Number of Libraries. SuSsTaSJed.J of Subsidy. Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawkc's Bay .. Marlborough Nelson Grey Westland North Canterbury South Canterbury Otago Southland 70 7 15 16 22 4 24 4 5 49 11 41 17 £ a. d. 1,837 1 11 227 11 7 1,192 17 9 2,403 17 9 453 0 0 128 5 9 325 0 7 109 11 6 81 19 6 1,544 13 7 371 18 5 777 18 8 193 16 5 £ s. d. 453 1 1 55 14 2 133 18 11 158 7 8 163 1 5 37 7 11 148 0 0 34 6 6 33 18 0 321 7 8 89 7 9 270 2 1 101 7 3 Totals 285 9,647 8 5 2,000 0 0

Library. Income. Subsidy. Library. Income. Subsidy. Auokl. .ro. £ s. d. 6 5 3 5 16 5 4 8 5 6 17 8 16 7 7 4 11 8 14 10 11 9 11 7 6 16 9 6 10 3 6 8 11 7 19 0 5 11 1 10 9 5 Auckland —. continued. Alexandra Aponga Arapohue Arataiiu Auckland Bombay Cambridge Dargaville Gordon Settlement Hamilton Helensville Hikurangi Hoteo North Huntlv £ s. d. 13 4 11 10 11 0 2 0 0 16 17 9 794 5 4 3 0 0 63 15 10 38 9 6 16 15 0 14 15 0 14 7 3 23 10 6 8 18 0 38 18 4 Kaeo Kaipara Plats Kaitaia Katikati Kaiwaka Kaukapakapa Kawakawa Kuaotunu Lichfield Lucas Creek Maburangi Mangapai Mareretu Matakana Lower .. £ a. d. £ a. d. 9 4 3 5 12 1 5 3 0 4 18 9 8 0 0 5 8 1 21 8 10 7 12 1 2 0 0 4 8 5 5 5 0 4 19 1 16 15 6 6 16 10 8 4 0 5 8 9 6 7 0 5 2 8 2 3 6 4 9 0 24 3 3 8 10 14 11 6 6 9 8 5 0 0 4 18 3 2 10 0 4 10 1

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irary. Income. isidy. irary Income. Subsidy. Auckland—i continued. £ s. d. 4 15 9 7 0 0 3 0 0 7 7 6 22 9 6 4 7 6 4 0 0 12 10 10 21 8 6 5 3 6 38 10 3 14 12 6 12 18 8 2 19 0 2 6 6 5 5 8 12 0 0 2 17 6 4 10 0 4 10 40 18 3 4 8 0 3 17 6 36 13 10 2 0 0 10 0 6 55 17 7 23 5 1 3 15 0 176 15 0 3 5 0 25 3 6 10 3 6 9 10 0 3 0 0 4 19 8 8 9 6 7 3 6 4 10 0 7 10 0 16 6 6 2 17 Wellington--continued. £ a. d. 226 9 1 16 15 2 9 14 0 12 19 2 25 6 0 4 10 0 8 16 0 7 15 0 1,760 10 0 Matakohe.. Maungakaramea Maungatapere Maungaturoto .. Mercury Bay Mangonui.. Morrinsville Ngaruawahia Ohinemuri Omaha Opotiki Otahuhu Otorahanga Pakiri Paparoa Parua Port Albert Pukekohe East Rawene Raglan Rotorua Ruatangata Takapuna Lake Tauranga Te Arai Te Aroha Te Awamutu Te Kopuru Te Uku .. Thames Tuhikaramea Turua Wainui Waipu Whangaroa North .. Wairangi Wairoa Waiwera, Upper Whakapirau .. ... Whakatane Whangarei Whitford .. £ a. d. 4 17 7 5 4 9 4 11 8 5 6 1 7 15 7 4 16 3 4 15 0 6 3 0 7 12 1 4 18 10 10 8 1 6 9 10 6 4 4 4 11 7 4 9 6 4 19 2 6 12 4 11 4 4 16 8 4 15 2 10 15 11 4 16 4 4 14 7 10 2 1 4 8 5 5 14 8 13 5 0 7 18 1 4 14 2 10 7 7 4 12 6 8 4 4 5 15 2 5 13 0 4 11 9 4 18 3 5 9 8 5 5 5 4 16 8 5 6 6 6 15 5 4 8 8 Masterton Nireaha Ohariu Otaki Pahiatua Pahautanui Petone Uriti Wellington £ s. d. 16 7 7 6 16 10 5 3 18 6 4 5 8 4 9 4 16 8 5 10 9 5 7 3 16 7 7 Total 2,403 17 9 158 7 8 I Hawke's Bay. Dannevirke Eskdale .. Prasertown Gisborne Glenross Havelock North Hastings North Maraekakaho Makotoku.. Mohaka .. Ongaonga Ormondville Porangahau Takapau .« Tamumu .# Taradale Waipawa Wainui Waimnta Valley Waipukurau Wairoa Woodville.. 12 1 6 6 5 0 8 10 0 65 6 0 19 11 6 38 8 0 82 6 10 16 14 0 9 9 6 5 10 0 8 16 4 13 3 1 9 5 6 17 0 2 3 7 6 10 16 0 26 5 6 12 3 0 8 12 9 18 12 0 21 17 6 38 18 4 6 1 5 5 2 4 5 9 9 14 15 10 7 6 0 10 7 8 16 7 7 6 16 7 5 12 11 4 19 11 5 10 9 6 5 0 5 12 3 6 17 7 4 13 0 5 17 3 8 8 0 6 18 5 10 2 7 2 10 7 13 7 10 9 4 Total 453 0 0 163 1 5 Mablbobc Total 1,837 1 11 453 1 1 Blenheim.. Havelock Picton Mahakipawa IUGH. 74 11 0 36 18 0 14 15 6 2 13 16 6 1 10 2 10 6 10 4 4 8 8 Tabana Total .. .KI. j 128 5 9 37 7 11 Huirangi Inglewood.. New Plymouth Oakura Puniho Tikorangi Uruti 2 2 6 29 4 6 137 8 9 3 10 0 4 13 4 26 12 6 24 0 0 4 8 11 8 17 7 16 7 7 4 13 4 4 17 2 8 9 1 8 0 G Nelsi Burnett's Paoe Capleston Charleston Clifton Terrace Collingwood Denniston Dovedale Poxhill .. Hampden Karamea Motueka Motupiko Motupipi Richmond Riwaka Sarau Seddonville Stanley Brook Stoke Takaka, Lower Takaka, East and Upper .. Waimangaroa Waimea South Westport [ 1 wr. 10 0 0 2 5 0 17 15 6 2 10 0 5 7 0 73 9 3 6 0 0 4 10 0 3 9 6 4 10 0 19 4 4 3 10 0 2 6 0 20 1 0 11 7 0 3 8 3 2 0 0 4 5 0 3 0 0 5 10 0 4 9 3 16 14 6 3 0 11 96 7 7 5 14 8 4 9 3 7 0 2 4 10 1 4 19 5 16 2 7 5 16 4 16 8 4 13 3 4 16 8 7 4 10 4 13 4 4 9 5 7 7 7 5 19 1 4 13 1 '485 4 15 10 4 11 8 4 19 11 4 16 6 6 16 8 4 11 10 16 7 7 Total .. 227 11 7 55 14 2 Wanga Awahuri Awatuna Cheltenham Clifton Eltham .. .. ,. Peilding .. Poxton Hawera Hunterville Kimbolton Marton Patea Pobangina Turakina Wanganui .NUI. 10 3 0 2 2 0 16 15 0 36 4 0 10 1 6 141 19 8 26 4 0 92 12 2 18 11 0 18 2 6 56 7 11 11 0 0 7 0 6 10 6 6 740 8 0 5 15 1 4 8 9 6 16 9 10 0 0 5 14 10 16 7 7 8 7 8 16 7 7 6 6 3 7 13 13 6 8 5 17 11 5 4 10 5 15 8 16 7 7 Total .. 1,192 17 9 133 18 11 Total .. 325 0 7 148 0 0 Wellii Gee rGTON. Carterton Eketahuna Featherston Greytown Hutt Mechanics' Institute .. Mangatainoka Martinborough 55 8 6 39 8 0 67 17 1 37 2 0 44 2 0 49 6 3 37 19 6 13 3 6 10 11 0 15 4 2 10 3 5 11 6 4 12 3 5 Blackball .. .. Dunganville Greymouth No Town 39 1 6 4 0 0 59 0 0 7 10 0 10 9 11 4 15 0 13 15 2 5 6 5 Total 109 11 6 34 6 6

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III. —List showing Distribution of Subsidy in Detail— continued.

Approximate Cost of Paper.— Preparation not Riven; printing (1,825 copies), £i 3s, Od.

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Library. Income. Subsidy. Library. Income. Subsidy. Wkstii, _ND. South Cantebbu; iy— continuet £ s. d. 176 4 6 58 4 6 19 1 0 i. Callaghan's Okuru Rimu Stafford .. Westland Institute £ s. d. £ s. d. 2 8 0 4 9 9 2 0 0 4 8 5 17 2 6 6 18 0 10 12 6 5 16 8 49 16 6 12 5 2 81 19 6 33 18 0 Timaru Waimate Winchester £ s. d. 16 7 7 13 12 8. 7 4 4' Total .. 371 18 5 89 7 9 Total Otag io. 5 6 3 8 3 5 4 18 10 6 0 5 5 17 11 7 9 3 5 2 10 4 15 10 4 11 2 5 9 4 8 13 7 6 18 5 5 0 11 9 19 6 5 4 4 10 2 4 4 10 6 7 0 10 6 9 8 8 10 4 5 11 8 5 5 1 16 7 7 5 4 5 5 11 2 6 19 5 4 9 3 6 12 6 10 7 8 4 19 11 6 1 10 5 4 6 6 14 8 6 4 5 10 9 7 5 7 7 4 13 10 4 18 7 6 12 6 4 18 4 7 1 11 Nobth Can^ Akaroa Ashburton Belfast Burwood .. Canterbury Library Chatham Islands Clarkville Oourtenay Oust Ellesmere Eyreton Eyreton West Greta Valley Halswell Hororata Kaiapoi Kaikoura Kowai North Lakeside Leeston .. Leithfield\.. Little Akaloa Little River Loburn Loburn North Lyttelton Mayfield Melton West Mount Somers Okain's Bay Oxford Pigeon Bay Papanui Prebbloton Rakaia South Rangiora Saltwater Creek Southbridge Southbrook South Malvern Springston Tai Tapu Waikari Waltham Wakanui Waterton Waiau Woodend Woolston cebbuey. 26 10 0 8 8 9 24 14 0 8 2 10 15 18 6 6 14 1 6 18 0 5 4 6 857 15 0 16 7 7 14 10 0 6 9 5 8 17 11 5 11 1 2 5 0 4 9 8 14 18 0 6 10 9 4 12 6 4 17 1 8 3 6 5 8 8 9 3 6 5 11 11 5 5 6 4 19 2 10 7 3 5 15 10 7 14 8 5 7 3 27 9 0 8 11 10 41 12 4 10 18 3 21 3 0 , HI 2 7 2 11 5 5 4 7 10 0 5 6 6 15 17 0 6 13 10 2 10 6 4 10 2 10 11 0 5 16 6 6 10 3 5 3 3 2 5 7 4 9 4 41 12 6 10 18 3 7 11 5 5 6 9 7 5 6 5 5 9 10 18 6 5 17 9 9 18 6 5 14 5 18 0 9 7 10 3 5 6 4 12 8 15 0 0 6 11 0 12 1 8 6 16 18 14 6 7 3 3 47 7 0 11 17 0 5 9 9 4 19 11 9 12 6 5 13 5 5 10 0 4 19 11 6 0 0 5 16 5 0 0 4 18 3 5 2 6 4 18 8 6 18 0 5 4 6 13 12 6 6 6 7 4 2 0 4 15 4 2 6 0 4 9 5 13 6 3 6 5 6 15 12 0 6 13 0 100 1 4 16 7 7 Awamoko Oaversham Clinton Cromwell Clyde Dunedin, Walker Street Enfield .. Green Island Higholifi .. Kakanui Kaitangata Kurow and Hakataramea .. Kyeburn Leith Valley Maheno Manuherikia Miller's Plat Mornington Mosgiel Naseby North Taieri Ngapara Oamaru Otepopo Otiake Outram Peninsula, Central South .. Palmerston Athenaeum Port Chalmers Portobello Pukeuri Ravensbourne Roslyn Shag Point Stirling Waiareka Waihemo Waihola Waikouaiti Waikoikoi Waiwera 7 8 6 24 17 6 5 3 6 11 15 0 11 0 0 20 11 0 6 8 0 4 5 0 2 16 6 8 7 6 28 0 0 17 5 3 5 16 0 35 17 7 6 17 0 35 15 0 2 12 6 18 0 0 14 11 6 27 0 0 9 19 7 19 228 15 0 6 17 6 8 18 6 17 10 11 2 5 0 15 9 0 38 7 6 5 10 0 12 4 0 6 17 8 16 2 3 12 19 6 38 19 0 7 16 6 3 12 6 5 2 0 15 9 0 5 0 6 18 6 6 Total 777 13 8 270 2 1 • Southl. ;AND. 7 18 10 5 5 6 6 4 0 5 9 4 6 9 6 5 8 6 5 2 11 6 4 9 5 13 0 5 9 8 6 13 8 4 13 5 4 18 7 5 16 6 15 3 4 11 4 9 7 6 Total 1,544 13 7 321 7 3 Arrowtown Glenorohy Heddon Bush Knapdale New River Valley Otoramika Limehills Orepuki Otautau Queenstown Rivorsdale Skippers The Neok Waianiwa.. Waikaia Waliacetown Wyndham 23 9 6 7 4 0 12 17 0 8 7 3 14 10 8 "8 2 6 6 8 6 13 1 6 9 10 0 8 9 8 15 16 0 3 10 0 5 2 0 6 0 0 16 5 6 2 17 6 32 4 10 South Cans :ebbuky. 6 10 3 6 18 5 8 6 4 19 11 5 14 4 10 14 5 4 18 3 7 15 10 Pairlie Geraldine.. Gleniti Hunter Pareora Pleasant Point Rangitata Temuka 14 15 0 12 3 0 8 2 6 5 10 0 9 17 10 40 8 10 5 0 0 22 11 3 Total 193 16 5 101 7 3