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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 48

come into force on the date of the first publication thereof
in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

In the regulations for the Junior Examination, clauses 1, 2,
3, and 4 are revoked, and the following clauses are substi-
tuted instead thereof:—

“1. The competitive examination (hereinafter called ‘The
Junior Examination’) required by ‘The Civil Service Reform
Act, 1886,’ shall be held every year in the month of Novem-
ber, December, or January, 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 appointed
for the purpose by the Minister of Education. At least six
months’ notice shall be given of the date of the examination.

“2. Every candidate for the Junior Examination must
give notice, 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 Education Department not
later than the 30th day of September next before the exami-
nation: provided that a candidate’s notice shall be re-
ceived between the 30th day of September and the 15th day
of October if it is accompanied by a bank receipt for a late fee
of £1 sterling, in addition to the receipt referred to below for
the ordinary entrance fee. With the aforesaid notice each
candidate must send—

“(a.) Testimonials as to character;

“(b.) A bank receipt for the payment of £1 sterling to
the Public Account at some branch of the Bank of
New Zealand; and

“(c.) The names of the three 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 for him to
send—

“(d.) The name of the particular Department or Depart-
ments.

“3. As soon as possible after a Junior Examination has
been held the Minister of Education shall publish a list of
the names of the candidates that have passed the examina-
tion, arranged in the order of their merit, which order shall
be wholly determined by the marks assigned to the several
candidates by the several examiners. In order to pass the
examination a candidate must gain 40 per cent. of the marks
in each subject taken: provided that a candidate that ob-
tains less than 40 per cent. but not less than 35 per cent. in
any of the three optional subjects may be allowed to pass if
he gains 45 per cent. in the three optional subjects taken
together. The name of every candidate that has passed the
Junior Examination, and no other name, shall be included
in the list of names in order of merit to be published as
aforesaid.

“4. Appointments to places in the Civil Service (with the
exceptions indicated in ‘The Civil Service Reform Act,
1886’), in the order in which vacancies occur, shall be offered
to the candidates in the order in which their names appear
in the list of the results of the Junior Examination pub-
lished next before the date at which the appointments are
offered, except that a candidate for appointment to one par-
ticular Department only, or to one of two or more particular
Departments only, named by him at the time of giving the
notice required by clause 2 of these regulations shall not re-
ceive an offer of appointment to any Department that he
has not so named; and that girls shall receive offers of
appointment to such vacancies only as in the opinion of the
Departments concerned are suitable for girls.

“Every candidate, on receiving an offer of appointment,
must produce—

“(a.) Evidence of having attained an age of not less
than fifteen nor more than twenty-one years
on or before the 1st day of January nearest the
examination. This evidence shall be a Regis-
trar’s certificate of birth: provided that in the
case of a candidate for whom it is impossible to
obtain a Registrar’s certificate of birth it shall
be for the Colonial Secretary to decide what other
documentary evidence of age and identity may be
accepted instead of such certificate.

“(b.) A medical certificate of fitness for the service,
which certificate shall be in the form prescribed
in the Schedule hereto; and the appointment shall
not take effect until the certificate is received and
approved of.

“A candidate that declines an offer made to him under
this clause shall have his name struck off the list of can-
didates for appointment, unless the Colonial Secretary other-
wise directs.”

In the regulations for the Senior Examination, clauses 7,
8, and 9 are revoked, and the following clauses are substi-
tuted instead thereof:—

“7. (1.) Every candidate must give notice in a form
prescribed by the Minister of Education, and such notice
must be sent so as to reach the office of the Education De-
partment not later than the 30th day of September next
before the examination, and must be accompanied by a
receipt for the payment of £1 sterling to the Public Account
at some branch of the Bank of New Zealand.

“(2.) A candidate’s notice may, however, be received be-
tween the 30th day of September and the 15th day of
October if it is accompanied by a bank receipt for a late fee
of £1, in addition to the receipt for the entrance fee.

“8. The examination may be passed as a whole, or in
sections. In the latter case the first section must consist of
not less than two subjects. For every admission, whether
to the whole examination or to a section of the examination,
the entrance fee of £1 shall be paid.

“9. As soon as possible after the Senior Examination has
been held the Minister of Education shall publish a list of
the successful candidates, and in the list those that, taking
the whole examination at once, have passed with distinction
shall be specially indicated.”

Clause 11 (a), first paragraph, is amended by striking out
all the words after the words “and also in,” and inserting
the following words in lieu thereof:—

“not less than four, or, in the case of cadet engineers, not
less than five, subjects to be selected, with the limitations
indicated in section (b) of this regulation, from among the
subjects named as constituting Group II. Not more than
five subjects from Group II. may be offered by any candidate
at any one examination.”

Clause 11 (c), Group II. (3) to (8), is amended by striking
out the whole section and inserting the following words
instead thereof:—

“(3) to (8). In Languages and Literature candidates will
be required to show reasonable proficiency in translating
from and into the language chosen; to show a knowledge of
certain special books; and to answer questions in grammar
arising out of the special books. In each language one or
more special books will be prescribed from time to time and
duly announced; and at least one of the passages set for
translation from the language shall be taken from a special
book so prescribed; and part of the work set for translation
into the language shall be based upon the vocabulary and
diction of one of such prescribed special books.*

“* The provisions relating to special books will not until further
notice apply to Maori.”

Clause 11 (c), Group II. (27), (28), (29), is amended by
striking out the whole section, and inserting the following
words in lieu thereof:—

“(27), (28), (29). The Department reserves the right to
hold the examination in these subjects at any time and
place, or to require candidates to take the examination of
the Science and Art Department, South Kensington, London,
in the Second Stage, or other examinations.”

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Powers delegated to the Sefton Domain Board under “The
Public Domains Act, 1881.”

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighth day
of June, 1904.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
vested in him by “The Public Domains Act, 1881,”
His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand,
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council thereof, doth hereby revoke a certain Order in
Council, dated the twenty-second day of September, one
thousand nine hundred and two, making delegation of
certain powers in manner as therein appears; and doth
hereby, with the like advice and consent, and in respect of
the land hereinafter mentioned, delegate all the powers
conferred by the said Act, except the powers conferred by
sections five and twelve thereof, for the period of ten years
from the date hereof (unless previously altered or revoked
under the said Act), to the undermentioned persons, who
shall be known as the Sefton Domain Board, namely,—

JOHN BROWN,
JOHN WILSON,
ROBERT LEWIS,
ALFRED TOPP,
JOHN MCDONALD ANDERSON,
HARRY ASHLEY, and
JAMES MCLEOD