MAY 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1529

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

NOTICE is hereby given that John Charles Snelling,
formerly of 6 Crusoe Road, Mitcham, in the County
of Surrey, England, now of 10 Crieff Road, Wandsworth,
Surrey aforesaid, has made application for restoration of the
patent granted to him for an invention for “An improved
machine for producing slabs for building purposes,” num-
bered 26249, and bearing date the 22nd July, 1908, which
expired on the 22nd July, 1912, owing to the non-payment
of the prescribed renewal fee.

Any person may, on or before the 17th June, 1913, 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 accom-
panied by a stamp for the fee of 10s.

J. C. LEWIS,
Registrar.

Notice of Date of Examinations.—Public Service Examinations.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 30th April, 1913.

Extract from regulations made by the Public Service
Commissioner, dated 1st April, 1913, section 172 : “The
syllabus and procedure for the Civil Service Junior and
Senior Examinations are adopted and shall remain in
force for all Entrance Examinations during the year
1913, and for all Senior Examinations until February,
1914.”

NOTICE is hereby given of the intention to hold Public
Service examinations—viz., the Public Service En-
trance Examination (heretofore known as the Civil Service
Junior Examination) and the Public Service Senior Examina-
tion (heretofore known as the Civil Service Senior Examina-
tion), as follows :—

Public Service Entrance Examination : On or about
18th November, 1913, and following days.

Public Service Senior Examination : On or about 5th
January, 1914, and following days.

No entrance fee will be payable for the Public Service
Entrance Examination or the Public Service Senior Ex-
amination.

Entries for the Public Service Entrance Examination and
the Public Service Senior Examination must be addressed
“The Inspector-General of Schools, Wellington,” and be sent
so as to reach him on or before the 8th September, 1913,
and 15th October, 1913, respectively. No application re-
ceived after the date herein specified will be considered, and
the provision heretofore existing in regard to late entries is
abolished.

All entries must be made on the proper forms, which may
be obtained at any time after the 1st July from the office of
the Public Service Commissioner, or of the Education Depart-
ment, or of any Education Board.

D. ROBERTSON,
Public Service Commissioner.

Notice of Date of Examinations.

Education Department,
Wellington, 30th April, 1913.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned ex-
aminations will be held on the dates specified in each
case :—

Intermediate Competitive (Education Board Senior
Scholarship Examination) : On or about 18th No-
vember, 1913, and following days.

Intermediate Non-competitive, for Senior Free Places
in Secondary Schools and District High Schools and
for the First Examination of Pupil-teachers : On or
about 18th November, 1913, and following days.

Junior National Scholarship : On or about the 27th
and 28th November, 1913.

Junior Free Place (including the examination for Junior
Free Places in Technical Schools) : On or about the
27th and 28th November, 1913.

Teachers’ Certificate Examinations, Class C and Class D :
On or about the 5th January, 1914, and following
days.

NOTE.—The Civil Service Junior (Public Service Entrance)
Examination being now confined exclusively to candidates
desirous of entering the Public Service, Scholarship candi-
dates who are required by the various scholarship regulations
to take this examination will now enter as Intermediate
Competitive candidates.

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 15th September, 1913.
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 Intermediate Competitive and Non-com-
petitive Examinations will be received by the Inspector-
General of Schools, Wellington, until the 15th September,
1913, or, with a late fee of £1, until the 22nd September,
1913.

Entries for the Teachers’ C and D Certificate Examinations
will be received by the Inspector-General of Schools, Wel-
lington, until the 15th October, 1913, or, with a late fee of
£1 in addition to the ordinary fee, until the 31st October,
1913.

For Scholarship and Free Place entries, and for entrance
to the First Examination of Pupil-teachers, no entrance fee
is payable.

All entries must be made on the proper forms, which may
be obtained after 1st July from the office of any Education
Board or of the Education Department.

GEORGE HOGBEN,
Inspector-General of Schools.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Otago Land District forfeited.

Department of Lands and Survey, Wellington, 26th April, 1913.

NOTICE is hereby given that the lease of the undermentioned land having been forfeited by resolution of the
Otago Land Board, the said land has thereby reverted to the Crown under the provisions of the Land
Act, 1908.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Lands.