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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 98

an examination of equivalent value, is the sum of one pound sterling, payable in the manner notified in clause 16 below for the payment of examination entrance fees.

DATE OF EXAMINATION.

14. An examination for the two Classes C and D shall be held every year in the month of January, beginning not earlier than the fifth day of the month, and ending, if possible, not later than the eighteenth day of the month.

EXAMINATION CENTRES.

15. The examination shall be held at the chief town of each education district, and at such other places in the colony as the Inspector-General shall from year to year recognise as suitable and desirable as centres of examination.

Any place at which there are ten or more candidates to be examined may be made an examination centre, and a place where there are fewer than ten candidates may be made a centre, if the candidates by additional payments make up the total payments to a sum of ten pounds : Provided that no place shall be recognised as a centre unless it is found that thoroughly satisfactory arrangements can be made thereat for the conduct of the examination.

NOTICE OF CANDIDATURE : ENTRANCE FEE AND LATE FEE.

16. Every candidate must give notice of his wish to be examined, the notice being given on a form of application provided for that purpose, and procurable at the office of any Education Board. The notice must be sent so as to reach the office of the Education Department, Wellington, not later than the thirtieth day of September next before the examination, and must be accompanied by a receipt for the payment of the amount of the entrance fee to the Public Account of some branch of the Bank of New Zealand.

17. Except as already or hereinafter provided, the entrance fee for the examination is the sum of one pound sterling, payable with each and every application made to be admitted to the whole or any part of the examination for a certificate. (See clauses 15, 24, 37, and 38.)

18. Candidates shall, at the time of making application to be examined, say at which centre they wish to present themselves. They may afterwards, up to the fifteenth day of October, elect to be examined at some other centre upon payment of a further fee equal in amount to half the sum first payable as entrance fee.

19. Anything contained in clause 16 above notwithstanding, a candidate’s notice and application to be examined may be received between the thirtieth day of September and the fifteenth day of October, if it is accompanied by a bank receipt for a late fee of one pound sterling in addition to the entrance fee.

NOTIFICATION OF RESULTS.

20. Notification of the successes of candidates at any certificate examination shall, as soon as possible after the close of the examination, be given by publication in the New Zealand Gazette, and all persons concerned shall accept such publication as an official communication of the results of the examination, and shall be entitled to act accordingly. In addition to such general notification, information will be given to each candidate individually of his success or failure in the several subjects.

EXAMINATION FOR CLASS D.

21. Any candidate that passes the Matriculation Examination of the University of New Zealand shall be entitled to exemption from further examination for Class D in the corresponding subjects or branches of subjects in which he has passed.

22. The examination for Class D shall be in the subjects named below. Every candidate must satisfy the requirements in all the subjects of Group I, and in three other subjects, of which, in the case of men, one must be taken from Group III, and another from Group II or Group III, and, in the case of women, one must be taken from either Group II or Group III, and one must be Needlework.