Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1884. PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume VIII, Issue 133, 15 November 1884, Page 2

Manawatu Standard (PUBLISHED DAILY.) The Oldest Daily Newspaper on the West Coast. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1884. PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

.T^E; distribution 6f the Vo^|df6r' public^ libraries will take place on Feb. Bth next. Every publiclibrary maintained by rates will be entitled to share m the distribution according to its income from rates; and every public library maintained by subscriptions, and, ; yoluntaiy. con-' tributions "wUI be entitled to share according to its income from subscriptions, and voluntary contributions. The admission to libraries claiming must be free, riot being under control of an association, society, or club, whose membership is composed of a section of the community only. As : a : rule, fc ! subsidy will not be given to more than one (jU t bra.ry,; in;t^e same town. " The distribution* will 'not be m prop'ortioh to the several incomes of the libraries; but a nominal addition of £25 will be made to the amount of "each income^ and -the vote of wiU; be divided m proportion to the ani ouhts as 'tnus augmented, but so as that no institution shall receive njorg than i?SO, and- then no payn^ierii shall be made m respect of income derived from endowments or grants from boroagh or county •councils, ffr of money received for^ . iSullding^urrjose^, and not simpl^ for .the current expenses of the library itself, or of feoney rece ! iVe4 a^ v rent, 1 nire or cbnsididratioij for the use of any building or f bom belong-' ' mg n to,,t|hp institution. Claims must ( reac^r the Secretary of j^duca^idn not' later ihari January 1 next. . '