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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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the Nelson–Belgrove Railway Reserve; towards the north-east (520 links) partly by Section No. 155, Waimea South, and partly by an overflow of the River Wai-iti; towards the south by a line being the centre of the aforesaid overflow; and towards the west (190 links) by a public road: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Nelson.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Hinds No. 2 Recreation-ground brought under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of September, 1898.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the twenty-fourth section of “The Public Reserves Act, 1881,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, do hereby order and declare that the reserve made for public recreation in the Canterbury Land District, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be and the same is hereby brought under the operation of and declared to be subject to the provisions of “The Public Domains Act, 1881”; and such domain shall hereafter be managed, administered, and dealt with in manner directed by the said Act.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land in the Canterbury Land District, containing by admeasurement 9 acres 2 roods 33 perches, more or less, being Reserve No. 1262, Block VI., Hinds Survey District. Bounded towards the north-west by Reserve No. 2406, 984 links; towards the north-east by Rural Section No. 4391, 886·9 links; towards the south-east by Rural Sections Nos. 16006, 20713, 22356, and Lot 33 of the Town of Hinds Reserve, 1204·9 links; and towards the south-west by a public road, 914 links: be all the aforesaid linkages more or less: as the same is delineated on the plan deposited in the office of the Chief Surveyor, Christchurch.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-sixth day of September, 1898.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” it is enacted that, with certain exceptions, all appointments to the Civil Service shall be by competitive examination, which shall be held periodically in the chief centres of population, and that from the most successful competitors in the order of their merit shall be selected candidates to fill all vacant cadetships in the Civil Service: And whereas by the same Act it is enacted that no cadet hereafter appointed shall receive more than one hundred pounds per annum until he has passed the Senior Civil Service Examination:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by virtue of the power and authority conferred upon him by the tenth section of the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the colony, doth make the following regulations respecting the examinations required by the said Act:—

REGULATIONS.

1. The competitive examination, hereinafter called “the Junior Examination,” required by “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” and the Senior Civil Service Examination referred to in the same Act, and hereinafter called “the Senior Examination,” shall be held every year in the month of January, between the sixth day and the eighteenth day of the month, in every city or borough in which the Board of any education district has its office, and in any other places that may from year to year be selected for the purpose by the Minister of Education.

2. Every candidate for the Junior Examination must give notice to the Minister of Education, and such notice must be in a form prescribed by the Minister of Education, and must be sent so as to be delivered at the office of the Minister not later than the thirty-first day of October next before the examination. With the aforesaid notice, each candidate must send—

(a.) Evidence of having attained the age of fifteen years;
(b.) Testimonials as to character;
(c.) A bank receipt for the payment of one guinea to the Public Account at some branch of the bank at which the Public Account is kept; and
(d.) The names of the two optional subjects chosen by the candidate.

If the candidate is willing to accept appointment to some one particular department only, or to one of two or more departments, and to no other, it will be necessary—
(e.) To name the particular department or departments.

3. At every Junior Examination every candidate will be examined in the three following subjects: 1. English grammar, composition, and spelling; 2. Arithmetic; 3. Geography; and these will be called compulsory subjects for the Junior Examination: and, at the same examination, also in two (and not more than two) subjects chosen by the candidate from the following list of subjects, which will be called optional subjects:—

4. Latin;

5. Greek;

6. French;

7. German or Italian;

8. Maori;

9. Algebra;

10. Euclid;

11. English history;

12. Elementary mechanics;

13. Elementary physics;

14. Elementary chemistry;

15. Elementary biology;

16. Shorthand.

17. At the Junior Examination the papers set in English, arithmetic, geography, and English history will be based on the programme of the public-school standards. In geography the elements of mathematical and physical geography will be required, and the general topography of and political geography of the world (without minute detail), with map-drawing (from memory) of European countries and British dependencies; in history, a fair knowledge of the period from 1603 to 1837, and a cursory knowledge of the chief events prior to 1603.

Latin and Greek: Questions in grammar; translation of easy passages, at sight, from and into the language in which the candidate is examined.

French, German, Italian, and Maori: As in Latin and Greek; but the papers not so elementary.

Algebra: To simple equations, inclusive.

Euclid: Books I. and II.

Elementary mechanics: The elements of statics, dynamics, and hydrostatics.

Elementary physics: Heat, sound, light, and electricity.

Elementary chemistry: The non metallic elements, and the atomic theory.

Elementary biology: Questions will be set in zoology and botany, but candidates will not be required to answer in both subjects. The subjects are: (a) Zoology—elements of animal physiology; (b) Botany—elements of the morphology and physiology of flowering plants, including the main characteristics of the chief native and introduced natural orders.

Shorthand: Writing fifty words a minute (reporting style).

NOTE.—In English, arithmetic, geography, and English history the papers set for Class E at the examination of teachers will be used at the Junior Examination. In shorthand and in Maori special papers will be set for the Junior Examination. In the other subjects of examination the papers set for Class D at the Teachers’ Examination will be used.

5. As soon as possible after a Junior Examination has been held, the Minister of Education will publish a list of the names of the candidates arranged in the order of their merit, which order will be wholly determined by the marks assigned to the several candidates by the several Examiners; except that if the marks assigned to any candidate in any subject are so low that, in the judgment of the Minister, they indicate failure in that subject, such marks will not be counted.

6. Appointments to places in the Civil Service (with the exceptions indicated in the Act), in the order in which vacancies occur, will be offered to the candidates in the order in which their names appear in the published list of the results of the Junior Examination of the January next preceding the date at which the appointments are offered; except that a candidate for appointment to one particular depart-