PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1360, 25 September 1883, Page 2

PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

Education Department, Wellington, 20ch Sept , 1883. The following notice appears in the Gazette :— “ Notice is hereby given that the sum of £6,000 has been voted by Parliament for distribution to public libraries. “ The distribution will take place on the 31st January, 1884, and no claim will be considered that shall not have been sent in in due form and received by the Secretary for Education, Wellington, before the 22nd January, 1884. “Every public library maintained by rates will be entitled to share in the distribution according to its income from rates ; and every library maintained by subscriptions and voluntary contributions : Provided in either case that the income for the year has not been less than £2 ; and that admission to the library, if within a borough, is open to the public free of charge. “ The income of each library may be stated for tne year ending 31st December, 1883, or for the year ending with that day in the year 1883 on which the annual accounts of the library were made up. “ The distribution will not be in proportion to the several incomes of the 1* branes ; but a nominal addition of £25 will be made to the amount of each income, and the vote of £6,000 will be divided in proportion to the amounts as thus augmented, but so as that no institution shall receive more than £5O, and that no payment shall be made in respect of income derived from endowments or grants from Borough or County Councils, or of moneys received for building purposes and not simply for the library itself. “ Application to share in the distribution must be made in the form of a statutory declaration by the Chairman, or Secretary, or Treasurer of the institution on behalf of which it is made.”