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and Queen Infant Reader; Collins’ Graphic Readers; Whitcombe and Tombs’ Imperial Readers (Standards I.–VI.); Chambers’ Graduated Primers and Infant Reader; Richardson’s Temperance Lesson Book; New Zealand Reader.

Writing. — Jackson’s Vertical, Southern Cross Erect, Southern Cross, Collins’ New Graphic, and Vere Foster’s Copybooks.

Arithmetic. — Longmans’ Preparatory Arithmetic and Junior Arithmetic; Southern Cross Arithmetics; Nelson’s Royal Arithmetics; Hamblin Smith’s Arithmetic; Goyen’s Complete Arithmetic for Standard III., and Compound Rules; Lock and Macdonald’s Arithmetic.

Grammar and Composition. — Mason’s First Notions of Grammar; Salmon’s Grammar and Salmon’s Composition (Longmans), Longmans’ Grammar and Composition; Trotter’s English Grammar (Collins); Southern Cross Grammar and Composition (Whitcomoe and Tombs); Goyen’s Composition (Macmillan); Park’s Composition (Coulls and Culling, Dunedin); Public School Grammar, III.–VI. (Whitcombe and Tombs); English Grammar and English Grammar Exercises (Parallel Grammar Series, Sonnenschein).

Geography. — Southern Cross Geographies (Whitcombe and Tombs); Longmans’ Geographical Readers and New Zealand Geographical Reader; Nelson’s Royal Atlas Geographical Readers; Zealandia Geography.

History. — Gardiner’s Outline of English History; Blackwood’s Short Stories; Longmans’ Simple Stories, New and Ship Historical Readers; Southern Cross Histories, Nos. 1, 2, 3 (Whitcombe and Tombs); Nelson’s St. George History Readers; Miss Bourke’s Little History of New Zealand (Upton and Co., Auckland).

Science and Domestic Economy. — Miall’s Object-lessons from Nature (Cassell); *Murché’s Science and Domestic Science Readers (Macmillan); Loewy’s Graduated Course of Natural Science (Macmillan); Lush’s Lessons in Domestic Science (Macmillan); Longmans’ Domestic Economy Readers, 4, 5, 6; Blackie’s Principles of Agriculture; Berners’ First Lessons on Health (Macmillan); Tanner’s First Principles of Agriculture (Macmillan); Macmillan’s Science Primers.

[*Recommended in connection with these for the use of teachers: Murché’s Object-lessons for Infants, Object-lessons in Elementary Science, and Object-lessons in Domestic Economy.]

Drawing. — Blank Drawing-books (recommended); Colonial Drawing-books, issued by the authority of the Minister of Education; New Zealand Drawing-books; Southern Cross Drawing-books; Longmans’ Drawing-books.

Singing. — Curwen’s Standard Course “Blackbird,” and Zealandia Song-book, Parts I., II., and III.; other Tonic-Solfa publications.

2. The Minister may, on the application of the Board of any district, grant authority for the use in such district of any book not contained in the foregoing list.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Temporarily reserving Land in the Land Districts of Auckland, Wellington, and Otago.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and pursuance of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby temporarily reserve from sale the lands in the Land Districts of Auckland, Wellington, and Otago enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, and opposite the descriptions of the lands so intended to be temporarily reserved.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Lands.

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