July 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1911

STATEMENT showing Discount-stamp Transactions in the several Postal Districts of the Dominion of New Zealand during the Quarter ended 30th June, 1909.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 19th July, 1909.

W. R. MORRIS,
Acting-Secretary.

Regulations fixing the Time for searching, registering, and depositing Instruments in the Deeds Register Offices.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred on me by “The Deeds Registration Act, 1908,” I hereby make the following regulations in regard to the practice and procedure under the said Act, that is to say:—

1. Every Deeds Register Office shall be open to the public for the purpose of searching the Register in such office from 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. during every working-day, except on Saturday, when the hours shall be from 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m.

2. No instrument shall be received for registration or deposit except between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on every working-day, except on Saturday, when the hours shall be from 10 a.m. to noon.

And it is hereby declared that, subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, these regulations shall come into force on the date of publication in the New Zealand Gazette.

Given under my hand, at Wellington, this twelfth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and nine.

EDWIN BAMFORD,
Registrar-General of Land.

Approved in Council.

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

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

The Treasury, New Zealand,
Friendly Societies’ Office,
Wellington, 14th July, 1909.

THE Ruth Rebekah Lodge, No. 3, situated at Dunedin, is registered as a branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of New Zealand Friendly Society, under “The Friendly Societies Act, 1908,” this 14th day of July, 1909.

ROBT. E. HAYES,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

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.

Officiating Ministers for 1909.—Notice No. 28.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 20th July, 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 name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend Frederick Herbert Petrie, M.A.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.