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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 81

RETURN of the Number of Births, with the Actual Mortality of Males and Females, and the Proportion of Deaths to Population, in the undermentioned Boroughs, during the Month of August, 1909.

• Includes suburban boroughs—Invercargill East, North, and South, with Avenal and Gladstone.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 25th September, 1909.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

School Commissioner appointed.

PURSUANT to subsection (4) of section 20 of “The Education Reserves Act, 1908,” ARTHUR MORTON was appointed the representative of the Education Board of the District of Taranaki, in place of Henry Faull, deceased, on the Board of School Commissioners of the Provincial District of Taranaki.

P. S. WHITCOMBE,
Secretary.

Education Office,
New Plymouth, 23rd September, 1909.

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.

Lands in Hawke’s Bay Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 29th September, 1909.

NOTICE is hereby given that, the lease and license of the undermentioned lands having been forfeited by resolution of the Hawke’s Bay Land Board, the said lands have thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1908.”

SCHEDULE.
HAWKE’S BAY LAND DISTRICT.

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.

Land in Otago Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands,
Wellington, 29th September, 1909.

NOTICE is hereby given that, the lease of the undermentioned land having been forfeited by resolution of the Otago Land Board, the said land has thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of “The Land Act, 1908.”

SCHEDULE.
OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

D. BUDDO,
Acting Minister of Lands.