Oct. 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2371

Examinations for Free Places in Secondary and Technical Schools.—Extension of Time.

Education Department,
Wellington, 30th September, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given that the time for receiving entries for examination for free places in secondary and technical schools is extended to the 15th October. This extension does not apply to scholarship examinations, nor to any other examinations.

GEORGE HOGBEN,
Inspector-General of Schools.

Junior National Scholarships.—Date of Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 26th June, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given that the next examination for Junior National Scholarships and for free places in secondary and technical schools will be held on Tuesday, 12th, and Wednesday, 13th December, 1905.

GEORGE HOGBEN,
Inspector-General of Schools.

Drawing at Junior National Scholarship Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 10th August, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given that at the Junior National Scholarship Examination to be held on the 12th and 13th December, 1905, the exercises in freehand drawing may include drawing from actual objects, or from a representation of some natural or conventional form with simple outlines. (Public-school Syllabus, clause 44.)

GEORGE HOGBEN,
Inspector-General of Schools.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Small Grazing-runs in Auckland Land District open for Lease on Application.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 2nd October, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given that the small grazing-runs described in the Schedule hereto will be open for lease on application, at this office, in terms of Part V. of “The Land Act, 1892,” and section 2 of “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903,” on Tuesday, the 12th day of December, 1905.

For the purposes of “The Bush and Swamp Crown Lands Settlement Act, 1903,” the runs in the said Schedule hereto are classed as “scrub land.”

No general rate shall be levied or collected by any local authority from the said runs for the period of two years from the date from which in each case respectively they are disposed of, and no local authority shall have power to levy or collect any such rate from such runs during such period.

After the first half-year’s rent has been paid by the selector the further instalments of rent payable by him for a period of two years shall not be demanded: provided that if at any time during the first five years of his occupancy the selector disposes of his interest in the run the rent so conceded shall be paid by him in full, and thereupon the Land Board may remit such instalments of rent payable by the incoming tenant, not exceeding in the aggregate the amount of rent previously conceded to the selector, as the Board shall think fit.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WHAKATANE COUNTY.—WAIHI SOUTH SURVEY DISTRICT.

Second-class Pastoral Country.—Scrub Land.

JAMES MACKENZIE,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Lands in Taranaki Land District forfeited or surrendered.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 29th September, 1905.

NOTICE is hereby given that, the leases or licenses of the undermentioned lands having been forfeited or surrendered accepted by resolution of the Taranaki Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

TARANAKI LAND DISTRICT.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.