July 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2881

STATEMENT showing DISCOUNT-STAMP TRANSACTIONS in the several POSTAL DISTRICTS of the DOMINION of NEW ZEALAND during the QUARTER ended 30th June, 1914.

General Post Office, Wellington, 21st July, 1914. F. V. WATERS, Acting-Secretary.

Conscience-money received.

The Treasury, Wellington, 21st July, 1914.

THE Minister of Finance directs me to acknowledge the receipt of one shilling in penny stamps by the Collector of Customs, Timaru, from some person unknown, as conscience-money to the New Zealand Government, being “a small amount owing for Customs duty.”

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

Declaration of Result of Poll for the Election of a Member of the Land Board of the Southland Land District.

I, GORDON HURRELL MORLAND McCLURE, Returning Officer for the Southland Land Board, do hereby declare the result of the poll taken on the 16th day of July, 1914, for the election of a member of the Land Board for the Land District of Southland to be as follows:—

Candidates. Votes polled.
King, James .. .. .. 676
Mackley, John Charles .. .. .. 441

Total number of valid votes polled .. 1,117
Total number of votes rejected as informal .. 104

I therefore declare JAMES KING, who has received the greatest number of votes, to be duly elected member of the Land Board for the said Land District.

Dated at Invercargill this 16th day of July, 1914.

G. H. M. McCLURE, Returning Officer.

Result of Election of Members of a River District.

Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 21st July, 1914.

THE following result of the election of members of the Waimatuku River District has been received from the Returning Officer, and is published in accordance with the provisions of the River Boards Amendment Act, 1913.

J. HISLOP, Under-Secretary.

Waimatuku River District, Counties of Southland and Wallace :

Lower Subdivision—
John S. Brown.
Henry Oswald Dawson.
John Rance.

Middle Subdivision—
Charles Allan Henderson.
Alexander McKenzie.
Robert McNeill.

Upper Subdivision—
Thomas A. Buckingham.
John Lindsay.
Peter C. C. McLeish.

Notice of Date of Examinations under the Control of the Inspector-General of Schools.

Education Department, Wellington, 17th April, 1914.

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 17th November, 1914, 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 17th November, 1914, and following days.

Junior National Scholarship: On or about the 26th and 27th November, 1914.

Junior Free Place (including the examination for Junior Free Places in Technical Schools): On or about the 26th and 27th November, 1914.

Teachers’ Certificate Examinations, Class C and Class D: On or about the 5th January, 1915, and following days.

NOTE.—The Public Service Entrance Examination (heretofore known as the Civil Service Junior 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, 1914. 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.

Entries for the Senior Board Scholarship Examination and for the First Examination of Pupil-teachers will be received by Secretaries of Education Boards until the 15th September, 1914. For all other Intermediate Examinations (Senior Free Place, Drawing only, &c.) entries must be sent direct to the Inspector-General of Schools, Wellington, so as to reach his office by the same date. The time for recognizing entries for these examinations will be extended to 22nd September, 1914, on payment of a late fee of £1; otherwise, no entrance fee is payable in respect of these examinations.

The provision heretofore existing whereby candidates other than those for Education Board Senior Scholarships were permitted to take Scholarship papers in the Intermediate Examinations is abolished.

Entries for the Teachers’ C and D Certificate Examinations will be received by the Inspector-General of Schools, Wellington, until the 15th October, 1914, or, with a late fee of £1 in addition to the ordinary fee, until the 31st October 1914.

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.