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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 59

Notice of Date of Examination.

Education Department,
Wellington, 28th May, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Civil Service Junior Examination and a Junior National Scholarship and Free Place Examination will be held in December, 1908, beginning on or about the 9th 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, 1909, beginning on or about the 5th day of the month.

The Civil Service Junior Examination is a qualifying examination for senior free places in secondary schools and district high schools; also 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.

Entries for Junior National Scholarships and for Junior and Senior Free Places must be made through the principals or head teachers of the schools attended, and will be received by Secretaries of Education Boards not later than the 30th September, 1908.

Entries for other examinations will be received by the Inspector-General of Schools, at Wellington, until the 30th September, 1908, or, with a late fee of £1 in addition to the ordinary fee, until the 15th October, 1908.

All entries must be made on the proper forms, which may be obtained later from the office of any Education Board or of the Education Department.

Candidates for Senior National Scholarships are reminded that, in forwarding to the University authorities their application to be admitted to the examination for a Junior University Scholarship, they must at the same time give notice of their intention to compete for a Senior National Scholarship.

Candidates who have to pass in elementary handwork for the teachers' certificates are examined at various times and places. Those who desire to be examined in good time in this subject are recommended to apply early.

GEORGE HOGBEN,
Inspector-General of Schools.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Canterbury Land District surrendered.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 10th July, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that, a surrender of the lease of the undermentioned land having been accepted by the Canterbury Land Board, the said land has thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892.”

SCHEDULE.

CANTERBURY LAND DISTRICT.—CULVERDEN SETTLEMENT.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

Pastoral Runs in Hawke’s Bay Land District classified.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 23rd July, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Commissioners appointed in pursuance of section 189 of “The Land Act, 1892,” to classify and report upon rural lands in Hawke’s Bay Land District have reported to His Excellency the Governor that the lands described in the Schedule hereto have been classified by them as therein noted.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.

SCHEDULE.

CLASS I.—PASTORAL LANDS, being Lands suitable exclusively for Pasturage, and not capable of being used with Profit in Areas of a Carrying-capacity of less than Five Thousand Sheep.

HENRY TRENT,
T. HYDE,
EUSTACE LANE,
} Commissioners.

Pastoral Run in Auckland Land District for License by Public Auction.

District Lands Office,
Auckland, 28th July, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned pastoral run will be offered for license by public auction, for a term of twenty-one years from the 1st day of March, 1909, at this office, on Friday, the 18th day of September, 1908, under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1892,” and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Class I.

Pastoral Run No. 63 (or Tirohanga Block), Whakamaru and Te Atiamuri Survey Districts, East and West Taupo Counties. Area, 16,920 acres. Upset annual rental, £25.