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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 74

Public Service Senior Examination.—Date for receiving Entries.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 30th September, 1913.

IT is hereby notified that entries for the Public Service Senior Examination to be held on or about 5th January, 1914, and following days must be addressed to the “Inspector-General of Schools, Education Department, Wellington,” and be sent so as to reach him on or before 15th October, 1913.

Entries must be made on the proper forms, which are obtainable from the Education Department, from any Education Board, or from this office.

Any officer of the Public Service or any candidate for the Public Service Entrance Examination of November, 1913, will be admitted to the examination without fee; other persons who may desire to take the Senior Examination must pay a fee of £1.

A. J. H. BENGE,
Secretary.

Applications invited for the Position of Chief Clerk, Customs Department.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 1st October, 1913.

1. APPLICATIONS, to be made on forms obtainable from Collectors of Customs or from this office, will be received up till noon on the 27th October, 1913, from officers of the Public Service, for the position of Chief Clerk, Customs Department.

2. Applications must be forwarded through the Head of the Department, addressed to the Secretary to the Public Service Commissioner, Wellington, and must embrace a statement of education and experience, particulars of age, &c.

3. Applicants must have a comprehensive knowledge of Customs work.

4. The appointment will be subject to the provisions of the Public Service Act, 1912.

5. Position will be graded in Class III. Salary, £385; maximum, £425. Clerical Division.

A. J. H. BENGE,
Secretary.

Applications invited for the Position of Second Assistant Engineer, Mental Hospital, Porirua.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 1st October, 1913.

1. APPLICATIONS will be received up till noon on the 31st October, 1913, for the position of Second Assistant Engineer, Mental Hospital, Porirua.

2. Applications must be addressed to the Secretary to the Public Service Commissioner, Wellington, and must embrace a statement of education and experience, particulars of age, &c.

3. Applicants must have a good knowledge of electrical machinery.

4. Applicants will be required to take charge of a watch and generally assist in maintaining the machinery in an efficient state. The plant consists of steam and oil-driven engines and dynamos, heating, cooking, and laundry apparatus, &c.

5. Salary, £210. General Division.

6. Appointment to be subject to the Public Service Act, 1912.

A. J. H. BENGE,
Secretary.

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

Wellington, 1st October, 1913.

THE time for receiving tenders for the lighting transformers, &c., for use in connection with the Lake Coleridge power scheme, advertised in the New Zealand Gazette of the 18th September, 1913, is extended to 5 p.m. on Monday, the 17th November, 1913.

J. MACKAY,
Chairman.

Government Insurance Department Agency opened at Albury.

Government Insurance Department,
Wellington, 26th September, 1913.

AN Agency of the above Department (Life and Accident Branches) will be opened at

THE POST-OFFICE, ALBURY,

as from the 1st October, 1913.

J. H. RICHARDSON,
Commissioner.

Conscience-money received.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 27th September, 1913.

THE Minister of Finance directs me to acknowledge the receipt of £2 forwarded to “Chief of Customs,” Dunedin, from an unknown person as conscience-money to the New Zealand Government.

G. F. C. CAMPBELL,
Secretary to the Treasury.

Officiating Ministers for 1913.—Notice No. 35.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 1st October, 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 intituled the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Baptists.

Mr. JAMES CALDWELL.

Trinity Congregational Church.

The Reverend HARRY JOHNSON.

W. W. COOK,
Deputy Registrar-General.

Tenders for Cartage, Post and Telegraph District Store, Christchurch.

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

WRITTEN tenders will be received at the office of the Controller of Stores, Wellington, not later than 5 p.m. on Thursday, 9th October, 1913, for cartage required at the District Store, Post and Telegraph Department, Christchurch, during a period of one year from 1st November, 1913.

Conditions of tendering and particulars of the cartage required may be obtained at the office of the District Store-keeper, Post and Telegraph Department, Christchurch.

The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted.

By order.

W. R. MORRIS,
Secretary.

Notice to Mariners No. 103 of 1913.

CAUTION re ADMIRALTY CHARTS WHEN CHANGING SHEETS OF NEW ZEALAND COAST CHARTS FROM AN OLD SURVEY CHART TO MORE RECENT SURVEY SINCE 1903.

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

ATTENTION of shipmasters is drawn to discrepancies in both latitude and longitude between points of connection of Sheets I and II, Nos. 2525 and 2543, of the New Zealand Coast Charts, also in the longitude between Sheets III and IV, Nos. 2527 and 2528. Charts Nos. 2543 and 2527 (also included in the same sheets but on a larger scale), Nos. 1998, 3565, 3436, and 3500, are new survey charts by H.M.S. “Penguin” since 1903. The other sheet charts of the New Zealand coast are mostly from surveys made between the years 1849 and 1855 by H.M.S. “Acheron” and “Pandora.” A large portion of the west coast was only partially surveyed by what is termed a running survey. In the survey made by H.M.S. “Penguin” the official longitude