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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 52

Population of the Colony.

RETURN of the Estimated Population of the Colony of New Zealand on the 31st March, 1906.

• The preliminary results of the census taken for the night of the 29th April show a total of 890,415 persons, exclusive of the Maoris and the population of the Cook Islands. Thus the census approximates closely to the estimate for 31st March made up according to the above method—in fact, it is quite confirmatory.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 25th June, 1906.

E. J. von DADELSZEN,
Registrar-General.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—ARTHUR MORRICE WILLIAMS, Esq., of 89 Queen Street, Melbourne, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, has this day been appointed by His Honour the Chief Justice a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in Victoria, under the 2nd section of “The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875,” for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned. Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of June, 1906.

W. W. SAMSON,
Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court.

Commissioner of the Supreme Court appointed.

NOTICE.—HAROLD EDWARD COHEN, Esq., of 61 Queen Street, Melbourne, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, has this day been appointed by his Honour the Chief Justice a Commissioner of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in Victoria, under the 2nd section of “The Commissioners of the Supreme Court Act, 1875,” for the purpose of administering and taking all such oaths, affidavits, and affirmations as in the said section mentioned.

Dated at Wellington, this 27th day of June, 1906.

W. W. SAMSON,
Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court.

Notice published pursuant to the Provisions of Section 15 of “The Public Trust Office Consolidation Act, 1894.”

Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 27th June, 1906.

NOTICE is hereby given that, no person having taken out administration, the Public Trustee has filed in the office of the Supreme Court at Wellington an election to administer the several intestate estates of the persons deceased whose names, residences, and occupations, so far as known, are hereunder respectively set forth, their gross properties being estimated not to exceed £250 in each case.

Martin Joseph O’Donnell, late of Oio, in the Provincial District of Auckland, labourer. Filed on the 13th day of June, 1906.

Mary Ann Perkis, late of St. Albans, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, married woman. Filed on the 13th day of June, 1906.

Herbert Stott Lindsay, late of Mercury Bay, in the Provincial District of Auckland, medical practitioner. Filed on the 13th day of June, 1906.

Richard Burke, late of Ormond, in the Provincial District of Auckland, settler. Filed on the 13th day of June, 1906.

Isabella Clarke, late of Balclutha, in the Provincial District of Otago, married woman. Filed on the 26th day of June, 1906.

William Thomas, late of Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, horse-trainer. Filed on the 26th day of June, 1906.

Otto Edward Peterson, late of Lyttelton, in the Provincial District of Canterbury, master mariner. Filed on the 26th day of June, 1906.

Martha Adela Ann Knowles, of Palmerston North, in the Provincial District of Wellington, married woman. Filed on the 26th day of June, 1906.

Daniel Duggan or Cahill, late of Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, labourer. Filed on the 26th day of June, 1906.

Charles William Rawlison, late of Tokatoka, in the Provincial District of Auckland, settler. Filed on the 26th day of June, 1906.

John Chute, late of Gisborne, in the Provincial District of Auckland, labourer. Filed on the 26th day of June, 1906.

Henry Smith, late of Roxburgh, in the Provincial District of Otago, labourer. Filed on the 26th day of June, 1906.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

Notice of Date of Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 6th June, 1906.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Civil Service Junior Examination and a Junior National Scholarship and Free Place Examination will be held in December, 1906, beginning on or about the eleventh day of the month; and that a Civil Service Senior Examination and an examination for teachers’ certificates of Class C and Class D will be held in January, 1907, beginning on or about the 6th day of the month.

The Civil Service Junior Examination is prescribed as the examination which holders of Junior National Scholarships are required to pass at the end of the second year of their scholarships (Junior Scholarship Continuation Examination). It is also a qualifying examination for senior free places in secondary schools and district high schools; further, it is the first examination for pupil-teachers.

With the Junior National Scholarship Examination will be taken the Junior Free Place Examination (including the examination for junior free places in technical schools), and candidates may qualify for junior free places in either examination.