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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 43

Tenders for Cartage.—Wellington Telephone Exchange.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 27th May, 1913.

TENDERS, addressed to the Controller of Stores, Post and Telegraph Department, Waterloo Quay, Wellington, will be received until 5 p.m. on Monday, 16th June, 1913, for cartage for construction and maintenance work in connection with telephone exchange at Wellington for a term of two years from the 1st July, 1913.

Particulars of the conditions of tendering, and of the cartage required, may be obtained on application to the Controller of Stores.

The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

By order.

W. R. MORRIS,
Secretary.

Officiating Ministers for 1913.—Notice No. 21.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 27th May, 1913.

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 titled the Marriage Act, 1908, the following name of an Officiating Minister within the meaning of the said Act is published for general information :—

Baptists.

The Reverend C. J. MACKAY.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1911.—Application 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,” numbered 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 accompanied by a stamp for the fee of 10s.

J. C. LEWIS,
Registrar.

Notice of Date of Examinations.

Education Department,
Wellington, 30th April, 1913.

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

Intermediate Competitive (Education Board Senior Scholarship Examination): On or about 18th November, 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 candidates 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-competitive 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, Wellington, 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.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

The Treasury, New Zealand,
Friendly Societies Office,
Wellington, 26th May, 1913.

THE Star of the South Tent, situated at Dunedin, is registered as a branch of the New Zealand Central District Independent Order of Rechabites Friendly Society, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 26th day of May, 1913.

ROBT. E. HAYES,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

The Treasury, New Zealand,
Friendly Societies Office,
Wellington, 26th May, 1913.

THE Kilbirnie Tent, situated at Kilbirnie, Wellington, is registered as a branch of the New Zealand Central District Independent Order of Rechabites Friendly Society, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 26th day of May, 1913.

ROBT. E. HAYES,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

The Treasury, New Zealand,
Friendly Societies Office,
Wellington, 26th May, 1913.

THE Star of Woolston Tent, situated at Woolston, Christchurch, is registered as a branch of the New Zealand Central District Independent Order of Rechabites Friendly Society, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 26th day of May, 1913.

ROBT. E. HAYES,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Notice to Mariners No. 58 of 1913.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 26th May, 1913.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Board of Trade, London, and from the Hydrographic Office, Washington, United States, America, are published for general information.

GEORGE ALLPORT,
Secretary.

AFRICA.

Hood Pt. Lt.-h.—Messages can be exchanged with passing vessels by the International Code during daylight. The sig. mast is white, est. 76 yds. N.-wrd. of the lt.-h. (33° 2′ S., 27° 54′ E.). March.