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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 Sch

Education Department,
Wellington, 12th July, 1913.

Officiating Ministers for 1913.—Notice No. 36.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 14th 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:—

Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend ERNEST STREETE.

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand

MR. DAVID JAMES ALBERT.

MR. WILLIAM JOSHUA HARVEY.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

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.

Examination in Drawing only.

Education Department,
Wellington, 18th June, 1913.

IT is hereby notified that candidates for teachers’ certificates, pupil-teachers, probationers, students of technical schools, or other persons may, upon making application in due form, be examined in drawing only either at the Intermediate Examination of November, 1913, or at the Teachers’ Certificate Examination of January, 1914, and may take at such examination one or more of the branches of Drawing as prescribed for general candidates in each case; that is, at the Intermediate Examination either Drawing I or Drawing II, or both these branches, and at the Teachers’ Certificate Examination Drawing I, or Drawing II, or Drawing III, or any group thereof.

For an entry in Drawing only at the November (Intermediate) examination a fee of 2s. 6d. for each branch taken, or of 5s. for both branches together, is payable, except in the case of pupil-teachers and probationers for the time being in the service of an Education Board, or of senior free-place candidates who require this subject only to complete a senior free-place qualification. By such persons no entrance fee is payable.

For the January (Teachers’ Certificate) examination the entrance fee (pupil-teachers and probationers as before excepted) will be 5s. for one or two branches of Drawing, and 7s. 6d. for the three branches taken together.

Passing in any branch of Drawing at the certificate examination of January under the circumstances herein stated will exempt a candidate from further examination in the same branch under the requirements for a teacher’s certificate. A similar exemption will also be granted to successful candidates at the November examination who pass the examination in Drawing I or Drawing II with credit, obtaining not less than 60 per cent. of the maximum marks assignable in each case.

Applications on the forms provided, accompanied by a bank receipt for the necessary fee, are required to be made to the Inspector-General of Schools, Wellington, not later than the 15th September for the November examination, and not later than the 15th October for the January examination.

Forms of application to be examined will be obtainable at the offices of Education Boards or from the Education Department after the 1st July.

G. 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 Examina-