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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 113

Examination for Elementary Kindergarten Certificates.

Education Department,
Wellington, 5th October, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that an examination for the grant of elementary Kindergarten certificates for teachers will be held in Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, and Wellington partly in the month of November and December, 1914, and partly during the month of January, 1915. Candidates to be admitted to the examination—

(a.) Must have passed the Intermediate Examination or its equivalent, or have obtained an Intermediate certificate; and

(b.) Must have completed a course of two years’ service and training in a Kindergarten school or schools under the direction of one of the recognized Kindergarten associations of the Dominion, or have completed a service and training of similar extent and character to the satisfaction of the Inspector-General of Schools.

For the examination an entrance fee of £1 will be payable. Applications, on forms to be obtained from the Secretaries of the Kindergarten associations in Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, or Wellington, or from the Education Department, Wellington, must be lodged with the Inspector-General of Schools, Wellington, not later than the 31st day of October next, and must be accompanied by a bank receipt for the entrance fee as paid into the Public Account at some branch of the Bank of New Zealand.

The precise dates and places of examination will be later notified to the candidates.

G. HOGBEN,
Inspector-General of Schools.

Notice of Examinations for the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 17th April, 1914.

PUBLIC SERVICE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION.

UNDER schedule and regulations as amended under date the 3rd April, 1914 (Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette, dated the 8th April, 1914).

PUBLIC SERVICE SENIOR EXAMINATION.

As heretofore prescribed for the Civil Service Senior Examination.

Notice is hereby given of the intention to hold Public Service examinations as follows, viz.: The Public Service Entrance Examination (formerly known as the Civil Service Junior Examination) and the Public Service Senior Examination (formerly known as the Civil Service Senior Examination) on or about the dates named below,—

Public Service Entrance Examination: On or about 17th November, 1914, and following days.

Public Service Senior Examination: On or about 5th January, 1915, and following days.

No entrance fee (other than late fee) will be payable by candidates for the Public Service Entrance Examination. Candidates for the Public Service Senior Examination will also be admitted without fee if (a) they are employed in Departments of the Public Service coming under the provisions of the Public Service Act, 1912; or (b) if they have passed the Public Service Entrance Examination of November, 1913, and have not declined appointment; or (c) if they have entered and sat for the Public Service Entrance Examination of November, 1914. In all other cases a fee of £1 will be required as entrance fee for the 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 his office on or before the 8th September, 1914, and 15th October, 1914, respectively.

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.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Lands in Auckland Land District for Sale by Public Auction.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Auckland, 16th October, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned lands will be offered for sale by public auction, for cash, at Paeroa on Friday, 11th December, 1914, under the provisions of the Land Act, 1908, and amendments.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

Ohinemuri County.—Town of Paeroa.—Town Land.

Paeroa is situated on the Thames-Te Aroha Railway, and is distant 70 miles from Auckland via Thames, and 130 miles by direct rail from Auckland.

Thames County.—Waihou Survey District.—Rural Land.

Section 30, Block II: Area, 36 acres 1 rood 5 perches; upset price, £385.

Altitude, 2 ft. to 4 ft. above sea-level. Partly drained swamp country; rich alluvial soil, on clay subsoil; watered only by drains on eastern and southern boundaries. Distant two miles and a quarter by formed cart-road from McKerchar’s Wharf on the Piako River; or from Turua on the Waihou River, four miles by formed cart-road, of which a mile and a quarter is metalled and another two miles is under construction.

TERMS OF SALE.

One-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid on the fall of the hammer, and the balance, together with Crown-grant fee (£1), within thirty days thereafter; otherwise the part of the purchase-money paid by way of deposit shall be forfeited and the contract for the sale of the land be null and void.

Titles will be subject to Part XIII of the Land Act, 1908. Full particulars may be ascertained at this office.

H. M. SKEET,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Reserves in Nelson Land District for Lease by Public Auction.

District Lands and Survey Office,
Nelson, 7th October, 1914.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned reserves will be offered for lease, for a term of five years, by public auction at the local Lands Office, Westport, on Thursday, the twenty-sixth day of November, 1914, under the provisions of the Westland and Nelson Coalfields Administration Act, 1877, and its amendments.

SCHEDULE.

BULLER COUNTY.—KAWATIRI SURVEY DISTRICT.—BLOCK III.

Second-class Land.