618 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 13

Applications invited for the Positions of Operating Engineers,
Lake Coleridge Hydro-electric Plant.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 17th February, 1914.

1. APPLICATIONS will be received up till noon on the
   2nd March, 1914, for the positions of operating engi-
   neers (six vacancies) in connection with the Lake Coleridge
   electric-power plant, Public Works Department.

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. Normal duty will consist of shift work for six shifts
   per week of eight hours each; but in case of breakdown or
   similar contingency, additional time must be worked as
   required to deal with the emergency.

4. The power-house engineers will be responsible to the
   Power-house Superintendent at Lake Coleridge.

5. Applicants must possess workshop experience, and should
   state fully what experience they have had in operation of
   large turbines, alternators, and extra high-tension switch-
   boards.

6. Cottages are available at Lake Coleridge at rents ranging
   from 10s. to 6s. per week, including electric lighting, accord-
   ing to the accommodation provided.

7. Actual cost of transport from Christchurch to Lake
   Coleridge will be paid by the Department.

8. Salaries commence from £180 to £260, and range £20
   higher by two annual increments of £10. General Division.

9. The appointments will be subject to the provisions of
   the Public Service Act, 1912.

A. J. H. BENGE,
Secretary.

Special Books in Languages and Literature for Public Service
Senior Examination, 1915.

Public Service Commissioner's Office,
Wellington, 3rd February, 1914.

IN pursuance of regulations under the Public Service Act,
1912, notice is hereby given that at the examination for
the Public Service Senior Examination of January, 1915, the
special books of which a knowledge will be required will be
as follows:—

ENGLISH.—Shakspeare, “Merchant of Venice,” “Julius
Cæsar”; Gray, “Poems”; Goldsmith, “Deserted Village”;
Johnson, “Life of Swift”; Landor, “Pericles and Aspasia.”
In addition, a knowledge of the period of literature, 1744–
1798, will be required. In the study of the literature special
attention must be paid to Johnson, Burke, Gibbon, Gold-
smith, Collins, Gray, Crabbe, Burns, and Cowper; but the
other authors of the period are not to be neglected. The
literary movements and their leaders, the current types and
forms of literature and their representatives, as well as the
influence of the ancient classics and of the leading Conti-
ental literatures on the English literature of the period,
must also be examined.

GREEK.—Plato, “Apology,” “Crito”; Aristophanes,
“Clouds.”

LATIN.—Tacitus, “Agricola,” “Germania”; Virgil,
“Georgics,” Book IV.

FRENCH.—Taine, “Voyage aux Pyrénées”; Corneille,
“Cid”; Molière, “L’Avare.”

GERMAN.—Goethe, “Faust,” Part I; Lessing, “Minna
von Barnhelm”; Sudermann, “Frau Sorge.”

ITALIAN.—Manzoni, “I Promessi Sposi.”

SPANISH.—Ayala, Campodrón, and Eguilaz, “Teatro
Moderno Español” (David Nutt); Alarcón, “El Niño de la
Bola.”

D. ROBERTSON,
Public Service Commissioner.

Special Books in Spanish for the Examination for the Class C
Certificate, 1915.

Education Department,
Wellington, 3rd February, 1914.

IN pursuance of regulations under the Education Act, 1908,
notice is hereby given that at the examination for the
Class C Certificate of January, 1915, the special books in
Spanish of which a knowledge will be required will be as
follows:—

Ayala, Campodrón, and Eguilaz, “Teatro Moderno
Español” (David Nutt); Alarcón, “El Niño de la Bola.”

G. HOGBEN,
Inspector-General of Schools.

Government Railways Superannuation Fund.—Election for
Scrutineers under the Government Railways Superannuation
Fund Act, 1902.

New Zealand Government Railways,
Head Office, Wellington, 17th February, 1914.

ONLY two nominations having been received for appoint-
ment as Scrutineers in the election of an elective
member of the Government Railways Superannuation Fund
Board, as provided in the regulations under the Government
Railways Superannuation Fund Act, 1902, I hereby declare
the nominees,

SAMUEL HOWARD and
BASIL ARTHUR MARRIS,

duly elected as Scrutineers in the said election.

R. W. McVILLY,
Returning Officer.

Land Surveyors’ Examination, March, 1914.—Commonwealth
of Australia and Dominion of New Zealand.

The Surveyors’ Board of New Zealand,
Government Buildings,
Wellington, 14th February, 1914.

IT is hereby notified for general information that the
Surveyors’ Board, in conjunction with the Australian
Surveyors’ Boards, will conduct an examination of candi-
dates for licenses to survey, commencing at 10 a.m. on Mon-
day, 23rd March, 1914.

Candidates are notified that their applications, on the
proper form, must reach the Secretary of the Board at least
ten days before the date of the examination, and that the
examination fee of £1 1s. must be paid at least ten days
before the date of the examination, to the Secretary of the
Board, from whom examination regulations, application forms,
and other particulars may be obtained.

C. E. ADAMS,
Secretary, Surveyors’ Board.

List of Persons registered as Barmaids.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 17th February, 1914.

IN pursuance of subsection (7) of section 36 of the Licensing
Amendment Act, 1910, and section 3 of the Barmaids
Registration Act, 1912, I hereby publish the following addi-
tional list of persons registered as barmaids under those Acts.

F. W. ROWLEY,
Secretary of Labour.

Braid, Isabel. O’Brien, Eileen.
Cochrane, Mary. O’Connor, Johanna.
Costello, Ann. O’Malley, Eileen.
Davison, Annie. O’Regan, Kathleen.
Drough, Mary Jane. Palmer, Vera Gertrude.
Duckworth, Mary Anne. Peacock, Mary Jane.
Gardner, Mary Elizabeth. Rose, Charlotte Ann.
Goiss, Nellie. Ruane, Lizzie.
Green, Mabel. Russell, Barbara.
Harper, May. Seymour, Rose.
Hawke, Olive. Smith, Jane Josephine.
Hogan, Annie. Smith, Maggie.
Hogan, Winifred. Smith, Ruby.
McGuire, Ellen. Sutherland, Jessie.
McPherson, Mary. Wood, Edith.

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

Wellington, 18th February, 1914.

SEPARATE tenders will be received at the office of the
Chairman (Government Printing Office) not later than
5 p.m. on Wednesday, the 15th April, 1914, for the supply
and delivery, C.I.F. and E. main ports, New Zealand, of the
undermentioned material:—

7,000 cells, dry.
500 cells and elements, Gordon No. 1, complete,
with additional elements.
3,000 telephones, wall.
1,000 cords, &c.
300,000 envelopes, demy.
500,000 envelopes, foolscap.
1,200,000 envelopes, patent folding.