Oct. 23. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3217

Notice of Intention to take Land for the Purposes of a Post and Telegraph Storage Yard in Block III, Otanake Survey District.

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NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to take the land described in the Schedule hereto for the purposes of a post and telegraph storage yard :

And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Te Kuiti, and is there open for inspection ; and that all persons affected by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington.

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SCHEDULE.

In the Auckland Land District ; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Wellington Provincial District.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 18th day of October, 1913.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Public Works.

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Tenders.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 20th October, 1913.

THE following list of successful and unsuccessful tenders is published for general information.

W. FRASER,
Minister of Mines.

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CONSTRUCTION OF TUNNEL AT POINT ELIZABETH (LIVERPOOL) STATE COAL-MINE.

Accepted.

R. H. O’Brien and C. D. Betts, Westport . . Schedule rates.

Declined.

T. Carroll, Rewanui . . . . Schedule rates.

W. S. Clark and C. J. Strongman, Runanga. . . . ”

E. J. McInroe and T. Murray, Greymouth . . . . ”

P. Rodden and party, Rewanui . . . . ”

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Officiating Ministers for 1913.—Notice No. 37.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 20th 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 :—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.

Mr. EDWARD JOHN DABOURNE,
Mr. DANIEL MCINTYRE.

F. W. MANSFIELD,
Registrar-General.

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Te Makarini Scholarships, held at Te Aute College, Hawke’s Bay.

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TWO scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable for two years, are offered for competition. One of these scholarships, to be called the senior scholarship, is open to all Maori boys not over sixteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the date of the examination ; the other, to be called the junior scholarship, is open to all Maori boys under fourteen years of age at the end of the 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.

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Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies Registry Office,
Wellington, 16th October, 1913.

THE Renwick Tent, situated at Renwicktown, is registered as a branch of the New Zealand Central District Independent Order of Rechabites Friendly Society, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 16th day of October, 1913.

ROBT. E. HAYES,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

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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.