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SCHOOL FOR DEAF-MUTES, SUMNER, NEAR CHRISTCHURCH.
Under the Control and Supervision of the Education Department.
Director : Mr. J. E. STEVENS.
FOR Deaf Children of sound intellect. The pupils are taught to use and understand ordinary speech. The full charge for board and education is £40 a year, but less is accepted from parents who cannot afford to pay this amount. In case of necessity admission is free.
By the Education Act, the education of deaf children between the ages of 7 and 16 is made compulsory. A child is, as a rule, best fitted to begin the school course at about the age of six, but advice should be obtained as soon as any sign of deafness is observed.
The following classes of deaf children are admitted :

1. Children born deaf, or who have lost their hearing before learning to speak.
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 acquainted with such cases above the age of 4 are invited to communicate with the Director, or with
   THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION,
   Wellington.
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   CONTENTS.
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   APPOINTMENTS
   BANKRUPTCY NOTICES
   CROWN LANDS NOTICES
   LAND-
   Allocating, taken for a Railway to the Purposes of a Road
   Authorizing the Laying-off of Avenue of a Width of 66 ft.
   Conferring Jurisdiction on Native Land Court
   Consenting to a Mortgage of Native
   Defining Middle-line of Railway
   For Sale by Public Auction
   For Sale or Selection
   Hutt River District enlarged
   Land Drainage District divided
   Laying-out and taking a Road
   Licensing Use and Occupation of Part of Foreshore
   Notice of Intention to take, for a Post-office
   Notice of Intention to take, for Mental Hospital
   Notice of Intention to take, for Native Schools
   Proclaiming and closing Roads
   Set apart as a Village Settlement
   Set apart for Selection
   Taken for a Post-office
   Taken for a Road
   Taken for Railway Purposes
   Taken for Railway Purposes and for a Road-diversion
   Taken for Road and Quarry
   Taking and Laying-off of Road
   LAND TRANSFER ACT NOTICES
   MAORI LAND ADMINISTRATION NOTICE
   MILITIA AND TERRITORIALS
   MINING NOTICES
   MISCELLANEOUS-
   Arrangements for First Election, &c.
   Certified Homes under the Reformatory Institutions Act
   Date fixed for holding First Election
   Declaring System of Rating for Town of Rotorua
   Fixing Closing-hours of Shops
   Fixing Date of Payment of Income-tax
   Government Printing Office : Christmas Holidays
   Justice of the Peace resigned
   Letters of Naturalization issued
   Meteorological Returns for November
   Notice pursuant to the Public Trust Office Act
   Plants declared to be Noxious Weeds
   Railway Traffic Returns
   Regulations as to taking and marking Trout
   Removal of Order forbidding the Registering, Forwarding, or Delivery of Postal Correspondence
   Resolution making Special Rate
   Results of Polls for Proposed Loans
   School of Mines : Amended Scholarship Regulations
   Special Orders
   Subsidies to Public Libraries
   Tenders
   Trustees of Public Cemeteries appointed
   NATIVE LAND COURT NOTICES
   PRIVATE ADVERTISEMENTS
   SHIPPING-
   Notice to Mariners
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   By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.