July 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2621

Regulation No. 181, as amended on the 1st April, 1914, is hereby further amended by deleting the words “Special consideration will in all cases be given to handwriting and to the formation of figures,” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “The legibility of handwriting and the setting-out of matter will in all cases be taken into account when assigning marks to papers in the various subjects.”

The regulation is hereby still further amended by inserting, after the syllabus of examination in the subject (1) English in Group I, the words “(1A.) Dictation and Handwriting.—The writing from dictation of a passage from some newspaper or standard author, special consideration being given to punctuation and penmanship. The copying from print or manuscript of prose, poetry, business letters, tabulated matter, and commercial papers. In the assessment of marks for handwriting consideration will be given chiefly to legibility, regularity, neatness, and speed. Handwriting will be taken into account in all subjects tested by written examination.”

Regulation No. 200H is hereby amended by adding the following proviso to the first paragraph thereof:—

“Provided that a candidate who has gained partial success towards the examination shall be deemed to have passed the examination if at an examination not later than July, 1916, he has passed in such of the subjects enumerated in Regulation No. 200F hereof, and in accordance with the provisions hereinafter contained, as would, under the regulations for the Senior Examination previously in force, have satisfied the requirements for officers of his Department.”

Also by the following addition and alterations to the schedule of Departmental requirements:—

Add:—

Land for Settlements Department.—
Compulsory subjects: 10, 16, 53. and 54.

Lands and Survey Department: Field Cadets,—
Subjects recommended: Insert 5 or 6 or 9, 14, 17, 23, 24, 52.

Compulsory subjects: Delete the present requirements, and substitute 10, 11, 16, and two of the subjects recommended.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,—
Subjects recommended: Add 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 28, 29, and 53.

As witness my hand this nineteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

D. ROBERTSON,
Public Service Commissioner.

In pursuance of the provisions of the Public Service Act, 1912, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, approves the foregoing regulations.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

Approved in Council this twenty-sixth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Officers for the Purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed.

Government Buildings,
Wellington, 21st July, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 79 of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed

ERNEST OTTO LEPPEN, of Greytown, and
WILLIAM GEORGE WATERSON, Jun., of Dalefield,

to be Officers for the purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908.

F. H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Officers for the Purposes of Part II of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed.

Government Buildings,
Wellington, 22nd July, 1915.

HIS Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred by section 79 of the Fisheries Act, 1908, appointed

CHARLES FOALE,

of Waikanae, to be an Officer for the purposes of Part II of that Act.

F. H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

N.B.—The Warrant issued in the name of Charles Foote, and dated 19th May, 1915, has been cancelled.