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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 81

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

The Treasury. New Zealand,
Friendly Societies Office,
Wellington, 25th October, 1912.
THE Waitemata Tent No. 5, situated at Northcote, is
registered as a branch of the New Zealand District.
No. 84, of the Independent Order of Rechabites Friendly
Society, Salford Unity, under the Friendly Societies Act,
1909, this 25th day of October, 1912.
ROBT. E. HAYES,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

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.

Officiating Ministers for 1912.-Notice No. 39.
Registrar-General's Office,
Wellington, 30th October, 1912.
PURSUANT to the provisions of an Act of the General
Assembly of New Zealand passed in the eighth year
of the reign of His late Majesty King Edward VII, and in-
tituled the Marriage Act, 1908, the following name of
an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act
is published for general information :-
Sydenham Gospel Mission.
Mr. DAVID R. LANYON.
F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General

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 scholar-
ships 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, 1908. 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 them-
selves 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.

Half-yearly Statement of Liabilities and Assets of the Bank
of Australasia in New Zealand.
HALF-YEARLY return of the aggregate average
amount of the weekly liabilities and assets of the
Bank of Australasia within the Dominion of New Zealand
from the 16th day of April, 1912, to the 14th day of October.
1912, inclusive. (Published pursuant to the Royal Charter
of Incorporation.)
£ s. d.
Bills in circulation not bearing interest .. 20,383 10 0
Notes in circulation not bearing interest .. 142,694 6 11
Bills and notes in circulation bearing interest ..
Balances due to other banks .. .. .. ..
Cash deposited not bearing interest .. 1,573,881 12 8
Cash deposited bearing interest .. .. 587,388 7 1
Total liabilities within the Dominion £2,324,347 16 8
£ s. d.
Coin and bullion .. .. .. .. 728,813 10 7
Landed property (bank premises) .. 24,221 3 8
Notes and bills of other banks .. .. 29,730 1 2
Balances due from other banks .. .. .. ..
Debts due to the corporation, including
notes, bills, and other securities .. 3,261,356 7 4
Total assets within the Dominion £4,044,121 2 9
A. P. WEBSTER, Inspector.
R. SWANSTON, Accountant.
Wellington, 22nd October, 1912.

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 Ex-
amination (commonly known as the December Examina-
tion) 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 Examina-
tion 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).
The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1911.-Applica-
tion for Restoration of Lapsed Patent under Section 22.
NOTICE is hereby given that James Hurll and Co. (Li-
ited), a company duly incorporated and carrying on
business at No. 20 Loftus Street, Sydney, New South Wales,
has made application for the restoration of the patent granted
to Arthur Lorwerth Joseph, of Hoffnung's Chambers, 163 Pitt
Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Sanitary Engineer, and
assigned to the said company, for an invention for " Improve-
ments in septic treatment of sewage," numbered 22533, and
bearing date the 13th March, 1907, which expired on the
13th March, 1911, owing to the non-payment of the prescribed
renewal fee.
Any person may, on or before the 19th November, 1912,
give notice at the Patent Office of opposition to the resto-
ration.
Such notice must be in duplicate, in the prescribed form,
set forth the particular grounds of objection, and be accom-
panied by a stamp for the fee of 10s.
J. C. LEWIS,
Registrar.