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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 95
SCHOOL FOR DEAF MUTES, SUMNER, NEAR
CHRISTCHURCH.
Under the Control and Supervision of the Education
Department.
Director : Mr. J. E. STEVENS.
THE Deaf Children of sound intellect. The pupils are
maintained and educated entirely free, except that
full charge for board and education is £40 a year, but less
is charged when parents are unable to pay or pay the
amount. In case of necessity admission is free.
By the Education Act, all children of deaf but less
than six years of age, and it is a matter of the first moment,
as a rule, be best fitted to begin the school course at about
five years of age, if no medical contraindication and no
sign of deafness is observed.
The following classes of deaf children are admitted :—

1. Children born deaf, or who have lost their hearing
   before acquiring speech.
2. Children who can hear a little, but are too deaf to
   be taught in an ordinary school.
3. Children who have lost their hearing after having
   learned to speak.
   Parents and other persons requiring more information
   above the age of 5 are invited to communicate with the
   Director, as above.
   THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION,
   Wellington.
   TO SOLICITORS, NATIVE AGENTS, ETC.
   THE following Rules can be obtained from the Govern-
   ment Printer, Offices, Wellington, on application to
   the undersigned :—
   RULES OF THE NATIVE LAND COURT. In
   English, 1s ; in Maori, 1s.
   ADDITIONAL RULES OF THE NATIVE LAND
   COURT, 19th March, 1896. In English, 6d ; in
   Maori, 6d.
   RULES OF THE NATIVE LAND COURT RE
   NATIVE LAND ADMINISTRATION ACT,
   Division II., Part II., of "The Native Land Court
   Act, 1894." In English, 6d ; in Maori, 6d.
   REGULATIONS UNDER "THE NATIVE TOWN-
   SHIP ACT, 1895." In English, 1s ; in Maori, 1s.
   Orders should be addressed—
   "GOVERNMENT PRINTER, Wellington."
   PATENT OFFICE SUPPLEMENT.
   A SPECIAL Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette
   of 1st December, 1898, containing abridgments of
   specifications, patents, and trade-marks, required by law to
   be gazetted ; also, particulars of lapsed applications for
   patents, and all other matter and thing appertaining to
   all to inventors, manufacturers, and others. The Supple-
   ment will be forwarded by post free on receipt of 3d., or
   to others on payment of a subscription of eleven shillings
   per annum, including postage, payable in advance to the
   Government Printer.
   CONTENTS.
   APPOINTMENTS
   BANKRUPTCY NOTICES
   CROWN LANDS NOTICES
   LAND—
   Authorizing Maori Land Board to act as Agent of
   Owners of Part of Land
   Authorizing Public Trust Office to approve of
   Alienation of Timber on Native
   Declaring Lands taken for Purpose of Road
   or Way of Sale
   Authorizing and Laying off of Survey of a Width
   of 66 ft.
   Declaring Road to be a County Road
   Declaring Land a Reserve for Section 117 of the
   Native Land Court Act
   Notice of Intention to change the Purpose of a
   Portion of a Reserve
   Notice declaring Undisposed Alteration in Bound-
   aries of a Borough
   Proclaimed as a Road
   Proclaiming and Closing Roads
   Removing Restrictions against Alienation of Native
   Removing Restrictions from Alienation of Land
   Taken for widening Lane and extending Road
   Temporarily closed
   Transfer of Land to a Trustee
   LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES
   MAORI LAND ADMINISTRATION NOTICES
   MINING AND VENTILATION
   MINING NOTICES
   MISCELLANEOUS—
   Altering the Scale of Fares, &c., New Zealand
   Government Railways
   Amounts of Loan available made available
   Branches of Friendly Societies registered
   Companies struck off or restored to Register
   Conscience-money received
   Friendly Societies dissolved
   Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act : Can-
   cellation of Dispute
   Land Boards to have Common Seal
   Notice pursuant to the Public Trust Office Act
   Notice of Sale of an Interest : Deceased Mechanical
   Authority over Religious Bodies
   Official Assignees
   Officiating Ministers for 1900
   Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds
   Proclaiming Lands to be taken and receive Statu-
   tory Declarations
   Public Trust Office Act
   Temporary loans
   Railway Traffic Returns
   Regulations for the manufacture of Methylated
   Spirits prescribed
   Reserves
   Trustees of Rabbit District elected
   Unclaimed Bank Deposits in Crowns
   NATIVE LAND COURT NOTICES
   PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS
   SHIPPING—
   Convoys to Mariners
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   By Authority : JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.