Nov. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3223

Education Board of the District of Grey.—Election of a Member to fill an Extraordinary Vacancy.

IN pursuance of the Education Act, 1908, and its amendments, it is hereby publicly notified that at an election held on 23rd September, 1912, to fill an extraordinary vacancy caused by the resignation of James Kerr, Esq., who has ceased to reside in the Grey Education District, LEWIS DAVIES WILLIAMS, Esq., was elected a member of the Education Board of the District of Grey, for the Northern Ward thereof.

The votes recorded in favour of the several candidates were as follows:—

Blair, William .. .. .. 1
Coates, Thomas Eldon .. .. .. 13
Ward, John .. .. .. 15
Williams, Lewis Davies .. .. .. 18

Total number of valid votes, 47. Voting-papers rejected as informal, nil.

P. F. DANIEL,
Secretary to the Board, and Returning Officer.
Education Office,
Greymouth, 8th October, 1912.

The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1911.—Application for Restoration of Lapsed Patent under Section 22.

NOTICE is hereby given that James Hurl and Co. (Limited), 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 Iorwerth Joseph, of Hoffnung’s Chambers, 163 Pitt Street, Sydney, New South Wales, Sanitary Engineer, and assigned to the said company, for an invention for “Improvements 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 restoration.

Such notice must be in duplicate, in the prescribed form, set forth the particular grounds of objection, and be accompanied by a stamp for the fee of 10s.

J. C. LEWIS,
Registrar.

The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1911.—Application for Restoration of Lapsed Patent under Section 22.

NOTICE is hereby given that Thomas Boswell Sutton, lately of Rongotea, Wellington, New Zealand, but now of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Builder and Contractor, has made application for the restoration of the patent granted to him for an invention for “An improved butter-box,” numbered 22257, and bearing date the 29th December, 1906, which expired on the 29th December, 1910, owing to the non-payment of the prescribed renewal fee.

Any person may, on or before the 3rd December, 1912, give notice at the Patent Office of opposition to the restoration.

Such notice must be in duplicate, in the prescribed form, set forth the particular grounds of objection, and be accompanied by a stamp for the fee of 10s.

J. C. LEWIS,
Registrar.

The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1911.—Application for Restoration of Lapsed Patent under Section 22.

NOTICE is hereby given that Charles Henry Edmund Hope-Johnstone, formerly of Aramoho, Wanganui, New Zealand, Factory-manager, but now residing at Tuhi-karamea, Auckland, New Zealand, Farmer, has made application for the restoration of the patent granted to him for an invention for “An improvement in preparing milk for food,” numbered 23412, and bearing date the 1st September, 1907, which expired on the 1st September, 1911, owing to the non-payment of the prescribed renewal fee.

Any person may, on or before the 17th December, 1912, give notice at the Patent Office of opposition to the restoration.

Such notice must be in duplicate, in the prescribed form, set forth the particular grounds of objection, and be accompanied by a stamp for the fee of 10s.

J. C. LEWIS,
Registrar.

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, 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 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.