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Examination for such candidates will be those named in paragraph 2 of the memorandum, instead of those laid down in paragraph 13 of the Regulations.

4. I have also to request you to inform your Ministers that in future candidates from the Colonial local Military Forces will be qualified for appointment up to the age of twenty-five.

I have, &c.,
ALFRED LYTTLETON.

Governor the Right Honourable the Earl
of Ranfurly, G.C.M.G., &c.

ARMY ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS.

Woolwich and Sandhurst candidates.

1. Acting upon the recommendation of the Advisory Board for Military Education, the Secretary of State for War has decided that there shall be no change in the subjects of examination, or in the mode of conducting the competition, of candidates for admission to the Royal Military Academy and Royal Military College at the examinations to be held in June and November, 1904, and June, 1905. The subjects at those examinations will therefore be as laid down in the Regulations reprinted in January, 1903, and separate lists for Woolwich and Sandhurst will be maintained. The special history period for 1904 will be: From A.D. 1837 to A.D. 1870.

Recommendations have been made by the Advisory Board with reference to the subjects of examination at subsequent competitions for admission to Woolwich and Sandhurst, and a further notification will in due course be made in regard to any changes that may result from those recommendations.

Militia and Imperial Yeomanry candidates.

2. The new competitive examinations in military subjects for Militia and Imperial Yeomanry candidates will, as previously notified, come into force at the examination to be held in September, 1904.

The subjects of that examination will be as follows: Military History and Strategy, Tactics, Military Engineering, Military Topography, Military Law, Military Administration and Organization. (In 1905 a further qualifying practical test in military work may be added.)

Until the proposed new general literary examination for all candidates shall have been settled and brought into operation, the qualifying examination in literary subjects, which Militia and Imperial Yeomanry candidates will be required to undergo before they can attend the competitive examination in military subjects, will be that laid down in the present regulations for candidates for admission to the Royal Military College (unless they possess such other qualification as may have already been accepted by the Civil Service Commissioners in lieu thereof).

Candidates for appointment to the Royal Artillery must also reach the Woolwich standard in the aggregate of marks for Mathematics I. and II.

A qualifying examination of Militia and Imperial Yeomanry candidates in literary subjects will be held concurrently with such examination for admission to the Royal Military College. Applications from officers of Militia and Imperial Yeomanry for admission to such qualifying examinations should be addressed, not to the Civil Service Commissioners, but to the Assistant Adjutant-General (Military Education), War Office, S.W.

University candidates.

3. The question of University candidates is still under consideration. An announcement regarding these candidates will be made at an early date.

Colonial candidates.

4. The subjects of the literary examination of colonial candidates will remain unchanged pending the introduction of the new general literary examination. The subjects of the Military Examination will, from September, 1904, be those named in paragraph 2 above.

War Office, 30th September, 1903.

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Resignation of a Trustee, Dunedin Savings-bank.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 12th February, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

Mr. JAMES RATTRAY

of his appointment as a Trustee of the Dunedin Savings-bank.

R. J. SEDDON.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 15th February, 1904.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Waitemata County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

R. J. SEDDON,
Colonial Treasurer.

WAITEMATA COUNTY COUNCIL.

Declaration of Poll.

Proposal to borrow £6,000 from the Colonial Treasurer for the purposes of a water-supply for the inhabitants of the Northcote Water-supply District, on which a poll was taken on the 3rd day of February, 1904:—

The result of the aforesaid poll having been ascertained, I hereby give notice that the number of votes recorded for and against the proposal was as follows: For the proposal, 123; against the proposal, 38; informal, 1.

And I hereby declare that, in view of the total number of valid votes recorded in favour of the proposal being more than three-fifths of the total number of valid votes recorded at the poll, the resolution in favour of such proposal was carried.

JOHN H. O’NEILL,
Chairman, Waitemata County Council.

Dated at Auckland, this 4th day of February, 1904.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 15th February, 1904.

THE following notice, received from the Chairman of the Weber County Council, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

R. J. SEDDON,
Colonial Treasurer.

WEBER COUNTY COUNCIL.

Proposed Loan of £6,000 under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and Amendments thereto.

A poll was taken on the above proposal on the 4th day of February, 1904, and following is the result: For the proposal, 74; against the proposal, 45.

There being in favour of the proposal more than three-fifths of the total number of valid votes recorded at the poll, I hereby declare the proposal carried.

STEPHEN FRANKLIN,
Chairman of the Weber County Council.

Titree Point, 9th February, 1904.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 16th February, 1904.

THE following notice, received from the Mayor of the Borough of Greymouth, is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901.”

R. J. SEDDON,
Colonial Treasurer.

GREYMOUTH BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Result of Poll for Proposed Loan.

Public notice is hereby given that a poll of the ratepayers of the Borough of Greymouth was taken on the 3rd day of February, 1904, under “The Local Bodies’ Loans Act, 1901,” and its amendments, on the following proposal, viz.—That it is proposed to raise a special loan of £5,000 for the purposes set forth in the following schedule, viz.: Water-works, £2,500; street improvements, £2,500: total, £5,000. It is proposed to pledge as security for the said loan—(1) the rents and profits from the gas- and water-works; (2) an annual-recurring rate of 1d. in the pound on the rateable value of the property in the borough. (3.) The provision for repayment is proposed to be made by redeeming one debenture of £100 face-value every year.

The result of the poll was as follows: Number of votes recorded for the proposal, 251; number of votes recorded against the proposal, 61; informal vote, 1: total number of votes, 313: majority of valid votes for the proposal, 190. The proposal was therefore carried.

Dated at Greymouth, this 4th day of February, 1904.

JESSE STEER,
Mayor.

EDWARD IVEAGH LORD,
Town Clerk.