SEPT. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2519

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’ certificate 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.

Te Makarini Scholarships, held at Te Aute College, Hawke’s Bay.

THREE scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable for two years, are offered for competition. One of these scholarships, to be called the senior scholarship, is open to all Maori boys not over sixteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination: the other two scholarships are junior scholarships, one of which is open to all Maori boys under fifteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination who have attended a Native school or schools under the control of the Education Department, and whose attendance at school during the previous year is considered by the Inspector of Native Schools to have been satisfactory; the other is open on similar conditions to Maori boys whose attendance at any school other than Te Aute and St. Stephen’s during the previous year has been satisfactory. The scholarships are open to Maori boys on the conditions laid down in the regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Appendix to the Native Schools Code, 1908. The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 7th and 8th of December, 1908.

Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves for examination. Such notice must be posted so as to reach the Department not later than the 26th of October, 1908.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secretary for Education, Wellington.

W. W. BIRD,
Inspector of Native Schools.

Education Department,
Wellington, 1st September, 1908.

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894.”

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have, for the purposes of “The Unclaimed Lands Act, 1894,” made due inquiries with respect to the land described in the Schedule hereunder written, and the owner thereof, and have, in respect of the said land, given the notices prescribed by section 4 of the said Act, and have in all respects complied with the provisions of the said section: And whereas I have not thereby ascertained who the owner is, and believe that such owner is not in the Dominion, nor has such owner established his title to the said land, as required by the said Act: I hereby give notice that the said land is, under and by virtue of the said Act, vested in me, as the Public Trustee as aforesaid, as from the date of the publication hereof, and will be administered under the said Act; the value of the land for the purposes of section 5 of the said Act being less than £100.

Dated at Wellington, this 17th day of September, 1908.

J. W. POYNTON,
Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 48 acres, more or less, being the northern portion of Allotment 80, in the Parish of Maungakaramea, in the Provincial District of Auckland. Bounded on the north-east by Allotment 81, 1660 links; on the south-east by other part of Allotment 80, 3010 links; on the south-west by a road, 454 links, 280 links, 125 links, and 820 links; and on the north-west by a line, 2814 links.

Education Board of the District of South Canterbury.— Election of Member to fill Extraordinary Vacancy, South Ward.

IN accordance with section 24 of “The Education Act, 1908,” it is hereby notified that

WILLIAM LINDSAY

has been duly elected to fill the extraordinary vacancy on the South Canterbury Education Board for the South Ward caused by the death of the Rev. G. Barclay.

The number of valid votes recorded for each candidate was—

Lindsay, William .. .. .. 88
Meredith, Richard .. .. .. 38
Borrie, James .. .. .. 28

The total number of valid votes was 154. The number of votes rejected as informal was 4.

A. BELL,
Returning Officer.

Education Office,
Timaru, 16th September, 1908.

“The Companies Act, 1903,” Section 266, Subsection (4).

TAKE notice that the name of the Electric Sports Company (Limited) has been struck off the Register, and the company has been dissolved.

Dated this 23rd day of September, 1908, at the office of the Registrar of Companies at Wellington.

C. H. WALTER DIXON,
Assistant Registrar.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands in Nelson Land District surrendered.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 18th September, 1908.

NOTICE is hereby given that, surrenders of the leases of the undermentioned lands having been accepted by resolution of the Nelson Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1908.”

SCHEDULE.

NELSON LAND DISTRICT.

ROBERT MCNAB,
Minister of Lands.