1726
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 54

“7. The following Schedule indicates the extent to which the choice of subjects from Group II is limited in the case of candidates in the service of certain Departments.

“No candidate in the service of any Department or branch of a Department will be deemed to have passed the examination unless he has passed in the subjects prescribed below as compulsory for that Department or branch :—

“Notwithstanding this clause and the next preceding clause, any candidate who shall have passed any part of the examination before the 30th June, 1910, may elect to complete the examination by selecting the remaining subjects in the same way as if these amendments had not been made, provided that the whole examination is completed before the 30th June, 1911.”

Clause 8 :—

(i.) Below the syllabus in (1.) Précis-writing, &c., insert the words “GROUP II,” and below the syllabus in (2.) English Language and Literature delete the words “Group II.”

(ii.) In (11.) Geometry and Trigonometry, after the words “Section D (Theoretical),” insert the words “The square on the side of a triangle is greater than, equal to, or less than the sum of the squares on the other two sides according as the angle contained by these sides is obtuse, right, or acute. The difference in the cases of inequality is twice the rectangle contained by one of the two sides and the projection on it of the other.”

(iii.) Delete the syllabus in each of the subjects (36.) Life and Accident Insurance Law and (37.) Principles of Life Insurance, and insert in lieu thereof the words “(36.) Life and Accident Insurance Law in New Zealand, and Life and Accident Insurance Companies' Law in New Zealand. (37.) Elementary Principles of Interest, Life Annuities, and Insurances.—Easy problems relating to compound interest, including annuities certain. Application of the theory of probabilities to life contingencies. The theory of annuities and insurances (including the use of commutation tables and computation of ordinary premiums). The source and characteristics of the principal mortality tables. The valuation of ordinary forms of policies. (37A.) Practice of Life and Accident Insurance.—The nature of insurance contracts generally (including life and accident insurance contracts). The selection of lives for insurance.”

(iv.) In the syllabus in subjects (41), (42), and (43). Applied Mechanics, Machine Construction and Drawing, and Building Construction—(a) after the words “Building Construction” insert the words “and Drawing”; (b) delete the words “the Science and Art Department, South Kensington, London,” and insert in lieu thereof the words “the Board of Education, Whitehall, London.”

(v.) Below the syllabus in (47.) Shorthand insert the words “(48) and (49). Architecture and Perspective.—The Department reserves the right to hold the examinations in these subjects at any time or place, or to require candidates to take the examination of the Board of Education, Whitehall, London, or other examinations.”

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

Notifying Lands in Southland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

PLUNKET, Governor.

By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.

IN pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the one-hundred-and-twenty-sixth section of “The Land Act, 1908,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby appoint Wednesday, the eighteenth day of August, one thousand nine hundred and nine, as the time at which the lands enumerated in the Schedule hereto shall be sold by public auction; and I do hereby fix the prices at which the said lands shall be sold as those mentioned in the said Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.—TOWN OF POURAKINO.

Suburban Land.

LOCALITY AND DESCRIPTION.

Pourakino is situated on the Invercargill–Orepuki Railway, about two miles from Riverton. The sections vary from high and dry to low-lying. All the timber of any value has been removed, and what is left is fit only for firewood. The sections are more or less cleared and in grass, but are not stumped.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and nine.

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Land temporarily reserved for an addition to an Agricultural and Pastoral Show-ground in the Canterbury Land District.

PLUNKET, Governor.

By his Deputy,
JAMES PRENDERGAST.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first section of “The Land Act, 1908,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwith-