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1900. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: SUBSIDIES TO PUBLIC LIBRARIES (PAPERS RELATING TO DISTRIBUTION OF). [In continuation of E.-13, 1899.]

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

I.—Exteact from the New Zealand Gazette, 2nd November, 1899. Education Department, Wellington, 30th October, 1899. Notice is hereby given that the sum of £3,000 has been voted by Parliament for distribution to public libraries. The distribution will take place on the Bth February, 1900, and no claim will 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, 1900. 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. In the division of the vote a nominal addition of £25 will be made to the amount of the income of each library derived from subscriptions, donations, and rates, and the vote will be divided according to the amounts thus augmented ; but no library will receive credit for a larger income than £75 —that is, in no case will the augmented amount on which distribution is based exceed £100. The whole of the subsidy must be expended in the purchase of books for the library. 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, 1899, and such declaration must be on the form provided for the purpose, which form shall be as follows : — Declabation. I, [Name], of [Place of abode], [Occupation], 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, 1899, the receipts of the aforesaid institution for the maintenance of the library only were as follows: Prom 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, 1899; 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 , 1900, before me— , Justice of the Peace [or Solicitor, or Notary Public]. [Here affix and cancel a stamp at Ss. 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 of Education, Wellington, and from the Secretary of any Education Board. W. C. Walkbe.

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ll.—Exteact from Twenty-third Annual Eeport of the Minister of Education. By a vote of last session a sum of £3,000 was granted for subsidies to public libraries ; in 1898 the amount voted for distribution was £2,000. The method of distribution of the vote for 1899 was the same as that adopted in the previous year, as follows : 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 amount thus augmented ; but no library received credit for a larger income than £75 —that is, in no case did the augmented amount on which distribution was based exceed £100. In accordance with a Gazette notice of the 30th October, 1899, the day appointed for the distribution of the subsidy was Bth February, 1900, and the amount of the vote was divided among the 312 libraries from which applications, each accompanied by a statutory declaration on the proper form, had been received. The vote, as thus dealt with, afforded a subsidy of 4s. 7'25d. in the pound of the nominal income, and the subsidies ranged from £23 os. 7d. to £6 4s. sd. Some libraries supplied with the proper form failed to send in formal claims by the 31st January, 1900, the dated fixed by the Gazette notice, and did not therefore participate in the vote. The number of libraries participating in the vote was 312, which shows an increase of twentyseven over the number aided in the previous year. In order that the purpose intended to be served by the vote may be attained to as full a degree as possible, it would appear to be desirable in future that the whole of the subsidy granted to each library should be expended in the purchase of books, and in any year to withhold a subsidy from any library that fails to comply with this condition as to the manner of expending the previous year's subsidy. 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 1899.]

a Education Districts. Number of Libraries. Amount of Subsidy. Auokland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson Grey .. North Canterbury South Canterbury Otago Southland Two special grants .. 72 9 17 17 25 3 23 10 57 15 45 19 £ s. d. 2,662 4 9 485 17 6 1,150 1 3 1,946 7 9 1,126 7 6 162 18 10 902 9 11 516 5 11 3,034 3 10 858 5 3 1,969 18 11 669 9 10 £ s. d. 596 0 8 98 14 11 221 10 2 205 17 5 256 0 11 37 10 6 207 17 8 118 18 2 510 15 4 168 16 5 414 4 2 154 3 8 9 10 0 Totals 312 15,484 11 3 3,000 0 0 4

Library. Income. Subsidy. Library. Income. Subsidy. AUCKL. .ND. Auckland—i ■■ontinued. Aponga Arapohue Aratapu Bombay Cambridge Dargaville Gordon Settlement Helensville Hoteo North Huntly Kaeo Kaipara Flats Kaitaia Katikati Kaiwaka Kaukapakapa Kawakawa Kohukohu Kuaotunu Lichfield Lucas Creek Mahurangi Mangapai Mangapiko Mangonui Mareretu £ s. d. 10 8 0 3 7 6 16 13 3 2 16 0 55 16 9 42 14 0 6 10 0 7 15 0 2 0 0 21 16 0 4 5 4 6 16 0 2 17 0 11 18 5 2 13 5 3 6 14 17 3 3 5 0 7 4 0 2 16 0 2 7* 3 If! 8 6 5 12 6 5 11 0 4 2 0 4 0 0 £ s. d. 8 3 1 6 10 9 9 11 6 6 8 1 18 12 4 15 11 11 7 5 2 7 9 11 6 4 5 10 15 6 6 14 10 7 6 6 6 8 4 8 10 1 6 4 8 6 18 11 9 3 8 1 6 10 2 ! 7 8 4 6 8 1 6 6 1 9 10 9 7 10, 7 4 9 6 14 0 ; 6 13 7 1 Matakana Matakana, Lower Matakohe j Maungatapere Maungaturoto j Mercury Bay : Morrinsville I Mount Roskill j Ngaruawahia Ohinemuri Omaha Opotiki Otahuhu Otorohanga Pakiri .. Papakura j Paparoa Parua Port Albert Pirongia Pukekohe Raglan Rawene Rotorua Ruatangata Lake Takapuna £ s. d. 5 3 6 2 0 0 2 13 7 2 0 0 4 15 9 22 11 0 5 0 0 6 10 0 10 13 0 38 6 0 4 15 0 21 15 3 16 0 0 10 19 0 2 16 0 9 19 3 3 9 0 4 9 7 2 17 9 11 6 9 2 12 6 2 8 0 4 8 0 29 6 2 7 15 0 4 13 £ s. d. 6 18 11 6 4 5 6 7 7 6 4 5 6 17 3 10 19 1 6 18 2 7 5 0 8 4 2 14 11 6 6 17 0 10 15 0 9 8 10 8 5 7 6 8 0 8 10 6 11 0 6 15 10 6 8 6 8 7 5 6 7 3 6 6 3 6 15 5 12 10 2 7 9 10 6 13 11

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>rary. [ncome. Subsidy. Library. Income. Subsidy. AUOKLVND■continued. £ s. d. 2 8 6 8 6 0 55 5 9 21 9 10 4 10 0 148 10 0 22 4 6 3 10 0 20 16 6 3 7 7 13 2 0 4 0 0 6 11 7 17 6 4 10 0 9 2 4 6 5 0 4 5 0 4 5 11 4 14 5 Hawkb's Bay ■continued. Te Arai and Mangawai Te Aroha Te Awamutu Te Kopuru Te Uku Thames Te Rore Tuhikaramea Turua Wainui Waipu Wairangi Waimamuku Wairoa South Waiwera, Upper Whakapirau Whakatane Whangaroa Wharehine Whitford £ s. d. 6 6 4 7 13 5 18 10 4 10 15 0 6 15 10 23 0 7 10 17 6 6 11 4 10 11 0 6 10 9 8 15 6 6 13 7 7 3 1 7 11 9 6 15 11 7 18 2 7 4 0 6 14 9 6 15 0 6 16 11 I Hastings North i Havelock North Makotuku l Maraekakaho l Mohaka .. Norsewood i Ongaonga Ormondville i Porangahau Takapau Tamumu Taradale Turanganui Waipawa Wainui Waimata Valley Waipukurau Wairoa Wanstead Weber Woodville £ s. d. 83 19 10 14 8 6 7 5 0 3 16 0 3 7 6 22 19 10 3 17 6 8 10 0 11 6 0 16 1 0 3 13 4 10 13 0 80 13 9 31 3 6 13 1 0 9 17 10 16 6 0 16 10 0 12 17 0 7 10 0 34 5 7 £ s. d. 23 0 7 9 17 7 8 7 6 12 8 6 10 9 11 1 1 6 13 0 7 14 5 8 7 2 9 9 1 6 12 1 8 4 2 23 0 7 12 18 9 8 15 3 8 0 9 9 10 3 9 11 2 8 14 4 7 9 8 13 13 0 Total .. 862 4 9 596 0 8 Total 501 7 6 256 0 11 Taran. Huirangi Inglewood New Plymouth Ngaire Oakura Puniho Tikorangi Urenui Uruti iKI. 3 0 0 24 19 6 132 1 6 44 14 0 4 19* 6 6 18 6 10 0 0 29 12 6 4 12 0 Marlbor 6 9 0 11 10 2 23 0 7 16 1 0 6 18 1 7 7 0 8 13 12 11 6 6 16 4 SOUGH. Blenheim.. Mahakipawa Picton 60 1 0 5 3 2 22 14 8 19 11 9 6 18 11 10 19 10 Total 87 18 10 37 10 6 Nelso IN. Total .. 260 17 6 98 14 11 Burnett's Face Charleston Clifton Terrace Denniston Dovedale Foxhill .. Hampden Karamea Millerton Motueka Motupiko Reefton Richmond Riwaka Sarau Stanley Brook Stoke Takaka, Lower Takaka, East and Upper .. Victoria Institute, Capleston Waimangaroa Waimea South Westport 26 8 0 20 0 0 3 2 6 68 13 9 7 11 8 3 12 6 5 8 0 2 0 0 20 16 6 14 11 6 3 2 6 40 16 6 10 0 0 8 14 4 7 0 4 0 0 2 5 0 8 7 0 4 16 0 2 5 0 7 14 6 2 6 2 57 4 6 11 16 8 10 7 3 6 9 7 21 12 1 7 10 0 6 11 10 7 0 0 6 4 5 10 11 0 9 2 4 6 9 7 15 3 2 8 13 7 12 4 6 15 3 6 13 7 6 5 7 7 13 7 6 17 3 6 5 7 7 10 9 6 5 10 18 18 9 Wanga] Ashhurst Awahuri Awatuna Cheltenham Clifton .. Feilding Foxton Hawera Hunterville Hurleyville Kaponga Kimbolton Mangaweka Marton Patea Pohangina Wanganui rui. 40 7 1 18 13 0 4 16 0 17 3 0 48 13 0 109 15 10 45 12 1 61 8 4 15 3 6 4 16 3 12 15 0 13 7 0 29 15 9 45 9 5 19 10 0 9 8 0 228 8 0 15 1 2 10 1 2 6 17 3 9 14 2 16 19 4 23 0 7 16 4 2 19 18 2 9 5 2 6 17 5 8 13 11 8 16 8 12 12 6 16 4 6 10 5 0 7 18 5 23 0 7 Total 725 1 3 221 10 2 Total 327 9 11 207 17 8 Wellini :gton. Grey. Carterton Eketahuna Featherston Greytown Hamua Hutt Mechanics' Institute .. Mangatainoka Martinborough Nireaha Ohariu Otaki Pahautanui Pahiatua Petone Rakaunui Uriti Wellington .. .. I: 74 2 0 29 19 0 76 18 5 57 17 6 14 7 0 26 0 0 11 6 6 15 17 3 7 10 3 4 18 10 18 10 0 3 0 0 28 12 6 li! 8 3 3 7 0 8 17 6 1,127 15 9 22 16 8 12 13 2 23 0 7 19 1 9 9 14 11 14 3 8 7 4 9 8 3 7 9 10 6 17 11 10 0 4 6 9 2 12 16 11 8 12 6 6 10 8 7 16 2 23 0 7 Blackball Brunner Dunganville Greymouth No Town Callaghan's Okuru Rimu Stafford .. Westland Institute ?. 45 8 0 50 11 6 24 18 11 49 16 0 7 0 0 2 0 0 3 15 0 19 10 0 10 14 6 52 12 0 16 4 4 17 8 1 11 10 1 17 4 5 7 7 5 6 4 5 6 12 5 10 5 1 8 4 7 17 17 4 Total 266 5 11 118 18 2 )annevirke Iskdale.. 'rasertown rlencross Total Hawkb's Bay. .. 57 16 3 .. 5 12 6 7 0 0 18 16 7 1,521 7 9 205 17 5 North Can' Akaroa Ashburton Belfast Burwood .. .. Canterbury Library Chatham Islands Clarkville Oust EUesmere 'ERBURY. 21 5 0 31 13 6 21 12 7 4 9 9 889 10 6 17 10 0 6 10 0 12 0 0 3 0 0 10 13 10 13 1 0 10 14 9 6 15 10 23 0 7 9 16 1 7 5 1 8 10 1 6 9 0 19 1 5 7 11 7 7 5 10 2 1

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Approximate Cost of Paper.-Preparation, not given; printing (1,700 copies), £5 2s. 6d.

By Authority: John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington.—l9oo. Price 3d.]

Income. Subsidy. Library. [ncome. I SIC iy. Librar y. North Cantehburyiy— continued £ s. d. 13 3 1 7 10 5 8 6 2 7 0 5 2 0 4 9 6 6 9 0 28 3 1 23 17 6 22 16 0 29 8 0 4 11 6 2 9 6 4 10 0 20 12 0 13 19 6 6 15 0 10 15 0 2 2 9 3 19 3 38 4 6 I 3 16 10 8 2 6 9 0 6 5 15 6 16 12 0 12 12 1 6 13 0 7 3 1 17 10 10 37 15 6 3 5 0 7 14 14 1 6 3 12 3 10 13 6 7 10 0 27 4 0 8 0 0 7 12 2 7 5 0 7 18 0 11 12 0 3 8 6 2 0 0 15 3 6 13 18 3 70 2 0 Otago. I, Eyreton Eyreton West Flaxton.. Glentunnel Greta Valley Halswell Hororata .. Islington Kaiapoi Kaikoura .. Kovai North Kowai Pass Lakeside Le Bon's Bay Leeston Leithfield.. Little Akaloa Little River Loburn Loburn North Lyttelton (Colonist Hall) .. Mayfield.. .. • • I Melton West Mount Somers O'Kain's Bay Oxford Papanui .. Pigeon Bay Prebbleton Rakaia South Rangiora .. Riccarton, Upper Saltwater Creek Southbridge Southbrook South Malvern Springstoa Sumner Tai Tapii Temple'on View Hill.. Waikari Waltham Wakanui Waterton Waiau Woodend .. .. • Wools ton I £ s. d. 8 5 9 7 7 8 7 0 2 6 6 0 6 18 8 6 15 9 7 4 10 12 4 11 11 5 1 11 0 2 12 10 6 6 16 3 6 6 7 6 15 11 10 10 0 8 19 6 7 6 3 8 4 8 6 5 0 6 13 5 14 11 2 6 12 10 7 12 7 7 16 9 7 19 9 11 7 8 13 2 7 5 y 7 8 1 9 15 11 14 9 1 6 10 2 7 7 9 9 0 0 6 11 10 8 4 10 7 9.8 12 0 5 7 12 0 7 10 2 7 8 7 7 11 8 8 8 7 6 10 11 6 4 5 9 5 1 8 19 3 21 18 0 Awamoko Gav3tsham Clinton Cromwell Clyde Dunedin (Walker Street) .. Dunrobin Duntroon Enfield .. Green Island Highclifl .. Kakanui Kurow and Hakataramea .. Kyeburn Diggings Liwrence Leith Valley Maheno Manuherikia Miller's Flat Mornington Mosgiel Naseby Ngapara North Taieri North-east Valley Oamaru Otepopo Otiake .. Outram Palmerston South Athenamm Papakaio Port Chalmers Portobello Pukeuri Ravensbourne Roslyn Shag Point Stirling Waiareka Waihemo Waihola Waikouaiti Waikoikoi Waipori Waiwera £ s. d. 2 12 6 18 17 6 4 0 0 23 17 6 23 5 0 15 6 0 15 15 10 10 4 0 5 16 0 4 5 0 4 12 6 5 10 0 18 14 6 6 0 0 57 11 0 11 9 6 9 11 3 46 16 6 6 12 6 14 0 0 20 4 0 27 2 6 25 0 10 2 16 0 2 7 0 246 6 0 8 7 6 7 3 0 12 2 6 17 2 0 14 8 0 37 15 1 5 10 0 7 9 5 10 17 4 10 1 0 6 12 0 24 2 10 8 4 10 4 13 6 5 11 6 14 12 0 7 9 0 2 10 0 11 14 0 £ s. d. 6 7 3 10 2 1 6 13 7 11 5 1 11 2 3 9 5 7 9 7 10 8 2 2 7 1 10 6 14 9 6 16 6 7 0 6 10 1 5 7 2 10 19 0 3 8 8 0 7 19 2 16 10 9 7 5 8 8 19 8 10 8 2 12 0 1 11 10 5 6 8 1 6 6 0 23 0 7 7 13 9 7 7 8 8 10 11 9 13 11 9 16 14 9 0 7 0 6 7 9 7 8 5 2 8 15 7 5 7 11 6 3 7 13 2 6 16 8 7 0 10 9 2 5 7 9 6 6 6 9 8 9 1 Total 844 18 11 414 4 2 Total .. .. 3 Southl, 1,609 3 10 510 15 4 .ND. 12 2 1 4 0 0 3 5 0 58 4 6 8 14 8 7 10 0 2 19 4 0 0 5 4 6 5 14 0 8 9 0 3 15 0 2 12 0 13 15 0 3 0 0 7 15 0 8 14 6 2 0 0 33 12 10 South Canti Fairlie Geraldine Gleniti Hunter Killinchy Pareora Pleasant Point Rangitata Redcliff .. St. Andrew's Temuka Timaru Waimate Waitohi Flat Winchester :erbury. 46 1 0 12 5 6 8 7 6 8 18 6 7 13 9 11 12 4 43 14 5 7 0 7 15 17 6 5 6 0 44 13 9 200 3 6 36 1 2 19 16 3 15 13 6 16 7 2 8 11 8 7 13 9 7 16 3 7 10 7 8 8 8 15 16 6 7 7 7 9 8 3 6 19 7 16 0 11 23 0 7 14 1 2 10 6 5 9 7 4 Arrowtown Gibbston Glenorchy Gore .. .. ' Gummie's Bush Heddon Bush Knapdale Limehills.. Orepuke Pukerau Queenstown Round Hill Skipper's Tuturau Wallacetown Waianiwa Waikaia Woodlands Wyndham 8 10 1 6 13 7 6 10 2 19 3 4 7 15 5 7 9 8 6 4 10 6 13 7 6 19 3 7 15 7 14 1 6 12 5 6 7 2 8 18 6 6 9 5 7 10 10 7 15 4 6 4 5 13 10 2 Total .. i Total | 194 9 10 154 3 8 483 5 3 168 16 5 SUMMAB" Auckland Taranaki Wanganui Wellington Hawke's Bay Marlborough Nelson Grey North Canterbury y of Distrii £ s. d. 862 4 9 260 17 6 725 1 3 1,521 7 9 501 7 6 87 18 10 327 9 11 266 5 11 1,609 3 10 sts showing Totals of Income and Su: £ s. d. 596 0 8 South Canterbury 98 14 11 Otago 221 10 2 Southland 205 17 5 256 0 11 37 10 6 Two special grants 207 17 8 118 18 2 510 15 4 Grand total BSIDY. £ s. d. 483 5 3 844 18 11 194 9 10 7,684 11 3 £ s. d. 168 16 5 414 4 2 154 3 8 2,990 10 0 9 10 0 7,684 11 3 3,000 0 0