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Session 11. ■ 1906. iNEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: SUBSIDIES TO PUBLIC LIBRARIES (PAPERS RELATING TO DISTRIBUTION OF). [In continuation of E.-13, 1905.]

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

I. —ExTBACT from New Zealand Gazette, 23rd November, 1905. Education Department, Declaration. Wellington, 13th November, 1905. :> [Wame] . of [PUce of abode] Occupation] ,do solemnlyNOTIOE is hereby given that the sum of £3,000 has and sinoere i y deolare that lam Chairman [or Seoretary, or been voted by Parliament for distribute to publio Treaaurer] of the [Name of institution] ; that during the year ibraries. n. M n.i«, ending on the 31st day of Deoember, 1905, the reoeipts of The distribution will take plaoe on the 6th February, the a f oresaid institution for the maintenance of the library 1906, and no claim will be entitled to consideration that only were aa follows . Prom rates levied bft , 0(jal governin g shall not have been sent in in due form and received by the body under „ The PuMio Librariea Aot 1869 ~ or ~T n| Secretary for Bduoation, Wellington, on or before the 30th Munioipal Corporations Act, 1900," pounds January, 1908. shillings and penoe; from the subscriptions of 1. A library to be entitled to a subsidy must be public in memberSi poun Jj s shillings and the sense of belonging to the pubho, and of not being under pence . and from voluntary contributions other than memthe control of an association, society, or olub whose member- bers , subscriptions, pounds shillings and ship is composed of a section of the community only, and if penoe _ And jdo go]emnly and s i noel . e i y deolare within a borough it muet be open to the publio free of that the information hereinafter furnished by me in the oharge. The reoeipts for the year from subscriptions and appendix ne reto is correot in every particular; that the donations must not have been less than £2, exclusive of a, ba t C act of aooounts is a true statement of the reoeipts and moneys received from endowments, or from Government, expenditure of the institution for the year herein speoifled • or from Borough or County Councils, or for special building that the whole o£ t he subsidy reoeived during the year was purposes, or as rent, hire, or consideration for the use of expended in the purchase of books for the library; and that any room, or building, or land belonging to the institution, 6 the rules Q j the übrary it is opm tth bu f f in respeot of none of which will subsidy be allowed. The net prooeeds of concerts, leotures, or other entertainments on behalf of the ourrent expenses of the library will be And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously beregarded as voluntary contributions. A subsidy will not be lieving the same to be true, and by virtue of an Aot of the given to more than one library in the same town. General Assembly of New Zealand intituled "The Justice* 2. In the division of the vote a nominal addition of £25 will of the Peace Aot, 1882." (Signature.) be made to the amount of the income of each library derived • from subscriptions, donations, and rates, and the vote will Declared at this day of ,190 , be divided according to the amounte thus augmented ; but before me- , Justioe of the Peaoe [or Sohoitor, or no library will receive oredit for a larger inoome than £75— Notary FublicJ. that is, in no case will the augmented amount on which dis- [Here afflx and canoel a Btamp at 2s tribution is based exoeed £100. 3 The whole of the subsidy must be expended without [Note. —The words relating to last year's subsidy and delay in the purchase of books for the library. to free admission may be struck out if they are not appli--4 Application to share in the distribution must be by cable. The words in brackets are not part of the form, but means of a statutory declaration by the Chairman, or Secre- indioate matter to be inserted or substituted.] farv nr Trflasurer of the institution on behalf of which it n • ~, , , ,■ *• i ~.-- tary, or ireaturoi vi ouo '"».«» , , .ih Copies of the form of application maybe obtained from j Q rnndp Ann must be accompanied Dy a statement oi cne ~ ~ , Tn , \ c TTT ~. •* is maae, ana mum uo *" . a l, lHm ~ iVt . the Secretary for Education, Wellington, and from tho reoeipts and expenditure of the institution for the year g of n Eduoat ion Board. ending on the 31st day of December, 1905; and such y •> declaration must be on the form provided for the purpose, ALBERT PITT, whioh form shall be as follows:— p or Minister of Education.

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