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Inspector's office,
April 9, 1868.

IT is hereby notified for general information that
Mr. WILLIAM NOBLE
has been appointed Sergeant of the Hawke's
Bay Police.

THOMAS SCULLY,
Inspector of Police.

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION.

By DONALD MCLEAN, Esq., Superintendent of the Province of
Hawke's Bay, in the Islands of
New Zealand.

UNDER and in pursuance of the powers
vested in me by the "Educational
Reserves Act 1861," and the "Reserves
Act 1864," of the Province
of Hawke's Bay, I hereby notify, for public
information, that all those pieces or parcels
of Land enumerated in the Schedule here-
under mentioned, will be offered for lease
for a period of twenty-one years, by public
auction, under the said Acts, subject to the
conditions hereinafter set out, at the office
of the Commissioner of Crown Lands, at
Napier, on the 28th day of APRIL, 1868.

DONALD MCLEAN,
Superintendent.

SCHEDULE.
EDUCATIONAL RESERVES.

CONDITIONS.

1. The different lots shall be put up at
   an upset price, and the person who shall
   bid the highest sum for each lot by way of
   annual rent shall be declared to be the pur-
   chaser or lessee thereof for the term of
   twenty-one (21) years from the date of sale,
   subject to the terms of a lease to be exe-
   cuted as hereinafter mentioned.

2. If no advance be made upon the up-
   set price for any lot, such lot will be with-
   drawn from sale, but will remain open to
   be leased under the 8th condition.

3. If any dispute shall arise between two
   or more bidders, the lot in dispute shall be
   immediately put up again.

4. The purchaser or lessee of each lot
   shall immediately pay, by way of deposit,
   to the Superintendent's Clerk one-half of
   the amount of his or her bidding, which sum
   shall be considered as payment of one-half
   year's rent upon the completion of the pur-
   chase or lease.

5. If any person fail to make the payment
   by way of deposit as provided for in the last
   condition, the lot bid for by such person
   shall be immediately put up again for sale.

6. A lease of each lot will be granted to
   each purchaser or lessee at his expense, and
   such purchaser or lessee will be required to
   execute a counterpart thereof within four-
   teen (14) days from the date of sale; and if
   any purchaser or lessee shall fail to execute
   such counterpart lease within the time last-
   ly mentioned, the deposit paid by such pur-
   chaser shall be absolutely forfeited, and the
   purchase shall be declared rescinded.

7. A copy of the proposed lease can be
   seen at the time of sale. Such lease will
   contain the usual covenants and provisos,
   and a covenant restraining the lessee from
   requiring the lessor to fence or contribute
   towards fencing the Land comprised in such
   lease and land adjoining the property of the
   lessor.

8. Any lots remaining unsold may during
   a period of 6 months from the day of sale at
   any time be leased at the upset price, sub-
   ject to the present conditions.

9. Should there be any simultaneous ap-
   plications for the lots mentioned in the last
   condition, then such lot or lots shall be sub-
   mitted to competition between the appli-
   cants only. The highest bidder at such
   sale shall be considered the purchaser or
   lessee, subject to the present conditions.

10. Upon the execution of the lease and
    counterpart hereof, the purchaser or each
    purchaser or lessee shall enter into posses-
    sion of the lot comprised in his or her
    lease.

THE following Report on Education, by
the Inspector of Schools, is published
for general information.

DONALD MCLEAN,
Superintendent.

Napier, December 31, 1867.

SIR,—I have the honor to report for your
information, that I inspected the provincial
schools during this month, and consider, on
the whole, that the examinations were satis-
factory; but, in some instances, not to that
degree that might have been expected,
owing, I feel confident, to the irregular at-
tendance of the children, and the want of
books and maps.

I herewith annex a list of the schools,
with the numbers attending, and the daily
average this quarter. Those in which I
perceived the greatest advancement are as
follows:—

Napier Girls' School ... Miss Caldwell
St. John's School ... Mr. Holden
St. Joseph's School ... Sisters of Charity
Meanee South School ... Mrs. Carr

I was not present at the examination of
the Napier Grammar School (Mr. Marshall)
or the Clydo School (Mr. Thomson). There
was more or less advancement in all the
Schools, and I have only thought it neces-
sary to name those in which I noticed the
greatest degree of improvement.

The highest number on the books for the
present quarter is 416, and the daily average
attendance 312 1/2, being an increase since
last year of 58.

I have ascertained that there are 574
children in the province between the ages
of 5 and 10, and there are 274 of the
corresponding ages on the books of the
schools, leaving 300 to be educated at home,
out of which I can safely say 250 are grow-
ing up in ignorance. There also are 367
between the ages of 10 and 15, and of that
number only 137 are attending school. This
fact is very remarkable when it is taken into
consideration the liberality of Government