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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 8th and 9th of December, 1913.

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 30th of September, 1913.

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, 12th July, 1913.

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.

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.

Public Service Stores Tender Board.—Supply and Delivery of Stores.

Wellington, 16th September, 1913.

SEPARATE tenders will be received at the office of the Chairman (Government Printing Office) not later than 5 p.m. on Monday, the 13th October, 1913, for the supply and delivery of the undermentioned material :—

500 cords, mounted, for Bell receivers.

300 ear-pieces for receivers.

3,000 ear-pieces, vulcanite, with flange.

500,000 envelopes, No. 26.

750,000 envelopes, No. 29.

3,000 plugs.

3,000 rings.

3,000 telephones, B.B. wall.

Tenders must be addressed to the “Chairman, Public Service Stores Tender Board, Wellington.” Delivery of the material is to be made within six months from date of the order. Successful tenderers will be required to give the security required by the conditions for the due performance of the contract. Particulars and conditions of tendering and specifications may be obtained at the offices of the Controller of Stores, Post and Telegraph Department, Wellington; the District Storekeeper, Post and Telegraph Department, Christchurch; or the Chief Postmasters at Auckland and Dunedin.

The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

J. MACKAY,
Chairman.

Public Service Stores Tender Board.—Supply and Delivery of Lighting Transformers, &c.

Wellington, 16th September, 1913.

WRITTEN tenders will be received at the office of the Chairman (Government Printing Office) not later than 5 p.m. on Monday, the 13th October, 1913, for the supply and delivery of lighting transformers, &c., for use in connection with the Lake Coleridge power scheme. Tenders must be addressed to the “Chairman, Public Service Stores Tender Board, Wellington.” Delivery of the material is to be made within seven months from date of the order. Successful tenderers will be required to give security in the sum of £150 for the due performance of the contract. Particulars and conditions of tendering and specifications may be obtained from the Public Works Offices, Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin.

The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

J. MACKAY,
Chairman.