GRANT TO PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 650, 6 October 1882, Page 2

GRANT TO PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

We pnb'ish the following notice from the Gazette for the benefit of the libraries in the; County. £We need hardly point out that in-taut appiioaion should he made!*" tWe intend to comment on [he matter and endeavor to explain more fully at a future date. " Education Department. Wellington, 20th September, 1832.

Notice is hereby given ih it tho sum of six thousand pounds (£(3,1)0/) has been voted by Parliament tor distribution to public lihrariee.

The distribution wiil fako place on the 31st January. 1883. and no claim will be considered thai shall n->t liave been sent, in in due form, and leccived by the 8 rretary for E.iiication. Wellington, before the 22nd January, 1883.

10very public libruy :n liutaiuod by rites will ':« e:dif'cd to snare in tli , -; distribution according to Us income from rates ; and ever} , libiary maintained by subscriptions and voluntary contiibutioMs will be entitled to share according to its incu-ii" from subscriptions and voluntary contributions : Provided in either case lii.it admission to the library, if within a borough, is open to the public free of charge.

The income of each library may be state! either for tho year ending 31st December. 1882, or for the year ending with that day in the year 1882 on which the iinnual accounts of the libraiy were made no.

The distribution will not be in proportion to the several inco nes of the libraries ; but a nominal addition of £25 will be made to tlu> amount of each income, arid the vote of £6.000 will be divided in proportion to the amounts as thus .augmented.

Application to .share in the di tiibuu'on must be iii-.de in the foim of a statutory declaration by the Chairniin, or Secretary, or Treasurer of ihe institution on behalf of which it is made ; and such declaration shall be in the following form :—

Declaration. I [Name], of [fiace of abode], [Occupation], do solemnly ami -\nr, rely deciare ih-it I am Chairman [or Herniary, or Treasurer] of ihe [Nairn of iiislilutioii], and that during the yanr ending the

day of , 1882 the income of the aforesaid institution for the pur—

po-e.s of a library o i!y was as follows: — From rates, pounds shillings and pence; and from the Kiiu.se.'iptions of members, pounds

Bindings and pence ; and from voluntary contributions other than members' subscriptions, pounds

."hilling and pence; and-thai b;/ the rides of the inatitution adiniaiiioa to the readiiiy-room is oi>en to the, public frse of

c/iarqe

And I make thi-? solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true, an i I)}' vir no of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled ' The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.'

day of ,188 ,

[Here affix and Declared at cancel a stamp tlii.s at 'Is 6a.]

before trio —

Justice of tho Peace. [or Solicitor, or Notary Public]. [Note. —The words relating to x'ree admission may be struck out if the library is hot in a borough. The words in brackets art; not part of the form, but indicate matter to be inserted or substituted.]

(Jopies of the form of statutory declaration nmy be obtained on application to the Secretary for Education, or to the Secretary of any .Education Board.

Thomas Dick."