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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 68

Notice to Mariners No. 95 of 1913.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 27th August, 1913.

THE following Notices to Mariners, received from the Port Officer, Melbourne, Victoria, and from the Minister of State for Communications, Tokyo, Japan, are published for general information.

GEORGE ALLPORT,
Secretary.

VICTORIA.
Bass Strait Lights.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 146, dated 22nd May, 1913, and to previous notices, mariners and others are hereby notified that, owing to non-arrival of apparatus, the new lights to be established at Citadel Island and Cape Liptrap will not be exhibited on or about the 1st September, 1913, as originally intended.

Further notification will be given as to the date of exhibition of such lights.

C. W. MACLEAN,
Port Officer.

Melbourne, 1st August, 1913.

JAPAN.
Tsushima Strait.

(No. 548.)

NOTICE is hereby given that the light of Tsutsuzaki Beacon, Tsushima Island, Nagasaki Prefecture, will not be shown, for the purpose of the alteration of the illuminating apparatus, on and after the first ten days of July, 1913.

(No. 549.)

Notice is hereby given that the light at Kozaki, Tsushima Island, Nagasaki Prefecture, will be withdrawn, for the alteration of the illuminating apparatus, about the middle of July, 1913, and during the works the following temporary light be shown: Character, fixed white; power, 50 candles; visibility, 8 nautical miles in clear weather.

N.B.—The position, the arc, &c., are as ever.

MOTODA HAJIME,
Minister of State for Communications.

Tokyo, 2nd July, 1913.

Notice to Mariners No. 96 of 1913.

OTAGO HARBOUR.—BEACON LIGHT ON QUARANTINE ISLAND.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 1st September, 1913.

REFERRING to Notice to Mariners No. 25 of 1913, the Otago Harbour Board have notified that the new beacon at Quarantine Island will be lit on and after 6th September. The new beacon light will be of the same colour and in lieu of the present light on the N.W. extreme of Quarantine Island.

Charts, &c., affected: Admiralty Chart No. 2411; “New Zealand Pilot,” eighth edition, 1908, Chapter viii, page 253; “New Zealand Nautical Almanac,” 1913, page 321.

GEORGE ALLPORT,
Secretary.

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 Entrance Examination (heretofore known as the Civil Service Junior Examination) and the Public Service Senior Examination (heretofore known as the Civil Service Senior Examination), 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 Examination.

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 received 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 Department, 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 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.

Result of Election of Trustee of Drainage District.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 2nd September, 1913.

THE following result of the election of a Trustee of a drainage district has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of the Land Drainage Act, 1908.

J. HISLOP,
Under-Secretary.

Pyramid Block Drainage District, County of Southland:
William Richard Jones,