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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 49

Result of Election of Trustees of a Drainage District.

Office of the Minister of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 15th June, 1909.

THE following result of the election of Trustees of the Woodlands Drainage District has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of “The Land Drainage Act, 1903.”

HUGH POLLEN,
Under-Secretary.

Woodlands Drainage District, County of Waikato :

Albert Wells Chapman.
James Howie.
Henry McIntyre.
George Tanner.
Edwin Thomas.

Officiating Ministers for 1909.—Notice No. 24.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 16th June, 1909.

PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand passed in the eighth year of the reign of His Majesty King Edward VII, and intituled “The Marriage Act, 1908,” the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information :—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
Mr. Frederick Herbert Bailey.

Salvation Army.
Adjutant Charles Dawkins.

W. W. COOK,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Government Insurance Department.—Agency opened at Taumarunui.

Government Insurance Department,
Wellington, 12th June, 1909.

AN agency of the above Department (Life Branch) will be opened at

THE POST-OFFICE, TAUMARUNUI,

as from the 23rd June, 1909.

J. H. RICHARDSON,
Commissioner.

Land Surveyors’ Examination, September, 1909.

The Surveyors’ Board,
Department of Lands,
Wellington, 10th June, 1909.

IT is hereby notified for general information that the Surveyors’ Board will conduct an examination of candidates for licenses to survey, commencing at 9 a.m. on Monday, 20th September, 1909, at the Dominion Museum, Wellington.

Candidates are informed that their applications, together with documentary evidence of having complied with the necessary conditions, must reach the Secretary of the Board at least thirty days before the date fixed for the examination, and that the examination fee of £1 1s. must be paid before the date of the examination to the Secretary of the Board, from whom application forms, regulations, and other information may be obtained.

C. E. ADAMS,
Secretary, Surveyors’ Board.

Notice of Date of Examinations.

Education Department,
Wellington, 10th May, 1909.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Civil Service Junior Examination will be held in November, 1909, beginning on or about the 20th day of the month. That a Junior National Scholarship and Free Place Examination will be held on or about the 1st and 2nd days of December, 1909, and that a Civil Service Senior Examination and an examination for teachers’ certificates of Class C and Class D will be held in January, 1910, beginning on or about the 5th day of the month.

With the Civil Service Junior Examination will be taken the Special Examination for senior free places in secondary schools and district high schools; and the First Examination of 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).

Entries for Junior National Scholarships, Junior Free Places, and the First Examination of pupil-teachers 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 15th September, 1909.

Entries for the Civil Service Junior Examination and Special Examination for Senior Free Places will be received by the Inspector-General of Schools, at Wellington, until the 15th September, 1909, or, with a late fee of £1, until the 22nd September, 1909.

Entries for the January examinations will be received by the Inspector-General of Schools, at Wellington, until the 30th September, 1909, or, with a late fee of £1 in addition to the ordinary fee, until the 15th October, 1909.

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.

Special attention is drawn to alterations in date for the receipt of applications.

GEORGE HOGBEN,
Inspector-General of Schools.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Hawke’s Bay Land District surrendered.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 12th June, 1909.

NOTICE is hereby given that, a surrender of the lease of the undermentioned land having been accepted by resolution of the Hawke’s Bay Land Board, the said land has thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1908.”

SCHEDULE.

HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Lands.

Land in Auckland Land District open for Sale or Selection.

District Lands Office,
Auckland, 25th May, 1909.

NOTICE is hereby given, in pursuance of section 326 of “The Land Act, 1908,” that the undermentioned land is open for sale or selection, and applications will be received at this office up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Wednesday, the 1st day of September, 1909.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—WAITEMATA COUNTY.—WAIPA-REIRA PARISH.

Second-class Land.

JOHN STRAUCHON,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.