2960
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 77

Permit to import Opium.

Department of Trade and Customs,
Wellington, 8th October, 1912.

IT is hereby notified for public information that a permit to import opium in forms which though not suitable for smoking may be made suitable has been granted to the following person, subject to the provisions of the Opium Act, 1908, the Opium Amendment Act, 1910, and the regulations made thereunder:—

F. M. B. FISHER,
Minister of Customs.

Education Board of the District of Westland.—Election of Member to fill Extraordinary Vacancy.

IT is hereby notified that

ROBERT WELLS, Esq.,

has been elected unopposed as a member of the Westland Education Board to represent the Middle Ward of the district, vice Thomas W. Beare, resigned.

A. J. MORTON,
Returning Officer.

Hokitika. 4th October, 1912.

Results of the Land Surveyors’ Examination, Australia and New Zealand, September, 1912.—New Zealand Candidates.

The Surveyors’ Board of New Zealand,
Wellington, 9th October, 1912.

IT is hereby notified for general information that at the September examination thirty-five candidates sat. Of these, Mr. Frederick Norman Thompson, Public Works Department, Leader River, Cheviot, passed the examination with credit, obtaining over 80 per cent. of the maximum marks; Mr. John Asher Parry, of Auckland, and Mr. Ronald Francis Wilson Mackenzie, Lands and Survey Department, Wellington, passed the whole examination; while Mr. Percy Russell Wilkinson, Lands and Survey Department, Nelson, Mr. Gordon Pearson Parkinson, Christchurch, Mr. Archibald Wilson Craig, Lands and Survey Department, Auckland, Mr. Harry Lawrence Fendall, Auckland, Mr. William Roderick Hayes, Auckland, Mr. Philip Corliss Gannaway, Lands and Survey Department, Auckland, Mr. Louis Picters Swarbrick, Hamilton, Mr. John McKinlay, Dunedin, Mr. Tristram James Havelock Speedy, Auckland, Mr. George Moore Ross Jackson, Lands and Survey Department, Auckland, Mr. Joseph Charles Simmonds, Auckland, Mr. Charles Kirkpatrick Ogilerson, Auckland, Mr. Frank Rupert Burnley, Lands and Survey Department, Napier, and Mr. Roy McEwan, Napier, completed the examination, having passed in some of the subjects at a former examination.

C. E. ADAMS,
Secretary, Surveyors’ Board.

Notice by the Public Trustee under the Public Trust Office Act, 1908 (Part II).

To the owner of the following land, that is to say: All that parcel of land in the Provincial District of Hawke’s Bay, containing by admeasurement 39 acres and 13 perches, being Block 73, Ruataniwha Survey District. The land was Crown-granted to one Hugh Dobbin, of Napier, who cannot now be traced.

WHEREAS the Public Trustee has instituted inquiries, and has not thereby ascertained who the owner of the above-described land is, and believes that such owner is not in the Dominion:

Now, the Public Trustee hereby calls upon such owner, within six months of the date of the publication of this notice in this Gazette, to establish to the satisfaction of the Public Trustee his title to the said land; and if he fails or neglects so to do, the Public Trustee will exercise the powers and authorities granted to him in and by the Public Trust Office Act, 1908 (Part II).

Dated this 7th day of October, 1912.

T. S. RONALDSON,
Deputy Public Trustee.

Notice of Date of Examinations.

Education Department,
Wellington, 12th April, 1912.

NOTICE is hereby given that a Civil Service Junior Examination will be held in November, 1912, beginning on or about the 18th day of the month; that a Junior National Scholarship and Junior Free Place Examination (commonly known as the December Examination) will be held on or about the 28th and 29th November, 1912; and that a Civil Service Senior Examination and an examination for teachers’ certificates of Class C and Class D will be held in January, 1913, beginning on or about the 6th day of the month.

With the Civil Service Junior Examination will be taken the Intermediate Examination, being the Special Examination for a senior free place qualification in secondary schools and district high schools and for 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 and Junior Free Places, and for 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 16th September, 1912. Junior Scholarship and Junior Free Place entries received after that date can be accepted only with the consent of the Education Department, which, if satisfied in any special case that there has been reasonable ground for the delay, may allow not more than seven days of grace.

Late entries for the First Examination of pupil-teachers can be accepted only under conditions applicable to the Intermediate Examination.

Entries for the Civil Service Junior and Intermediate Examinations will be received by the Inspector-General of Schools, at Wellington, until the 16th September, 1912, or, with a late fee of £1, until the 23rd September, 1912.

Entries for the January examinations will be received by the Inspector-General of Schools, at Wellington, until the 15th October, 1912, or, with a late fee of £1 in addition to the ordinary fee, until the 31st October, 1912.

For Scholarship and Free Place entries, and for entrance to the First Examination of pupil-teachers, no entrance fee (other than late fee) is payable.

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.

GEORGE HOGBEN,
Inspector-General of Schools

Te Makarini Scholarships, held at Te Aute College, Hawke’s Bay.

TWO scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable for two years, are offered for competition. One of these scholarships, to be called the senior scholarship, is open to all Maori boys not over sixteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination: the other, to be called the junior scholarship, is open to all Maori boys under fourteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination who have attended a Native school or schools under the control of the Education Department, and whose attendance at school during the previous year is considered by the Inspector of Native Schools to have been satisfactory. The scholarships are open to Maori boys on the conditions laid down in the regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Appendix to the Native Schools Code, 1903. The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 9th and 10th of December, 1912.

Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves for examination. Such notice must be posted so as to reach the Department not later than the 28th of October, 1912.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Secretary for Education, Wellington.

W. W. BIRD,
Inspector of Native Schools.

Education Department,
Wellington, 11th September, 1912.