MAR. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 801

Applications invited for the Position of Orchard Overseer, Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce, Arataki Horticultural Station.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 24th February, 1917.
APPLICATIONS will be received by the undersigned up till noon on the 12th March, 1917, for the position of
Orchard Overseer, Arataki Horticultural Station, Havelock North.

2. Applications (to be made on P.S.C. Form 17A, obtainable at principal post-offices) 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. Applicants must be not more than forty years of age.

4. Applicants must have a thorough knowledge of commercial orcharding, including fruit-tree pruning, budding, grafting, and cultivation, and a general knowledge of orchard diseases and their control.

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

The position will be graded in the General Division. Salary, £180 per annum; maximum, £200.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Applications invited for the Position of Vineyard Overseer, Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce, Arataki Horticultural Station.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 24th February, 1917.
APPLICATIONS will be received by the undersigned up till noon on the 12th March, 1917, for the position of Vineyard Overseer, Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce, Arataki Horticultural Station, Havelock North.

2. Applications (to be made on P.S.C. Form 17A, obtainable at principal post-offices) 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. Applicants must be not more than forty years of age.

4. Applicants must have an expert knowledge of pruning and grafting the vine, and a general knowledge of grape-culture, including varieties, cultivation, diseases, and their control.

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

The position will be graded in the General Division. Salary, £180 per annum; maximum, £200.

P. VERSCHAFFELT,
Secretary.

Special Books in Languages and Literature for the Teachers' Class C Certificate Examination, 1918 and 1919.

Education Department,
Wellington, 26th February, 1917.
IN pursuance of regulations under the Education Act, 1914, notice is hereby given that at the Teachers' Class C Certificate Examination of January, 1918, and January, 1919, respectively, the special books of which a knowledge will be required will be as follows:

(a.) January, 1918.

ENGLISH.—Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet"; Macaulay, "Essay on Milton"; Milton, "Samson Agonistes," "L'Allegro," "Il Penseroso," "Lycidas." In addition, a knowledge of the period of literature 1625–1688 will be required. In the study of the literature special attention must be paid to Milton, Dryden, Herrick, Butler, Taylor, Bunyan, and Browne; 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 Continental literatures on the English literature of the period must also be examined.

GREEK.—Thucydides VII; Euripides, "Bacchae."

LATIN.—Cicero, "In Verrem, Actio Secunda IV (De Signis)"; Virgil, "Aeneid IV."

FRENCH.—de Tocqueville, "L'Ancien Regime"; P. Bazin, "La Terre qui Meurt"; Molière, "Tartuffe."

GERMAN.—Goethe, "Egmont"; Schiller, "Wilhelm Tell"; Heine, "Harzreise."

ITALIAN.—Fogazzaro, "Il Santo"; Amicis, "Carrozza di Tutti."

SPANISH.—Galdós, "Trafalgar" (Pitt Press); Quintana, "Vidas de Espanoles Celebres," Volume I—Lives of Vasco Nunez de Balboa and Francisco Pizarro.

(b.) January, 1919.

ENGLISH.—Shakespeare, "Henry IV" (Parts I and II), "Henry V"; Pope, "Essay on Criticism"; Swift, "Battle of the Books"; Steele and Addison, "The Spectator." The Club Papers are as follows: 1, 2, 12, 34, 105, 106, 108, 110, 112, 115, 117, 122, 123, 125, 126, 130, 131, 269, 295, 329, 335, 383, 517, 530, 549, 550. The Vision of Mirzah, 159. In addition, a knowledge of the period of literature 1688 to 1744 will be required. Special attention must be paid to Defoe, Steele, Addison, Swift, Pope, and Thomson; but the other authors in 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 Continental literatures on the English literature of the period, must also be examined.

GREEK.—Select Speeches of Lysias (Shuckburgh, Macmillan); Sophocles, "Antigone."

LATIN.—Livvy, XXIV; Horace, "Odes III and IV."

FRENCH.—La Bruyère, "Les Caractères"; A. Daudet, "Le Petit Chose"; Racine, "Athalie."

GERMAN.—Goethe, "Iphigenie"; Schiller, "Maria Stuart"; Keller, "Zurischer Novellen."

ITALIAN.—Manzoni, "I Promessi Sposi."

SPANISH.—Ayala, Camprodon and Eguilaz, "Teatro Moderno Español" (David Nutt); Alarcon, "El Niño de la Bola."

W. J. ANDERSON,
Director of Education.

Special Books in Languages and Literature for the Public Service Senior Examination, 1918.

Office of Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 26th February, 1917.
THE special books for the Public Service Senior Examination of January, 1918, will be the same as those shown above for the Teachers' Class C Examination.

D. ROBERTSON,
Public Service Commissioner.

Notice to Mariners.—No. 12 of 1917.
AUCKLAND HARBOUR.—HARBOUR LIGHTS AND FOG-SIGNAL.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 26th February, 1917.
THE Auckland Harbour Board have notified that the post holding the distinguishing-lights and fog-signal on the northern end of the Western Tide Deflector was washed away during a heavy easterly gale.

A boat has been moored approximately 40 ft. N.N.E. magnetic from the northern end of the Tide Deflector, and a fixed white light is shown from the boat at night until such time as the distinguishing-lights are re-erected.

Charts, &c., affected.—Admiralty Charts Nos. 1896 and 1970; "New Zealand Pilot," eighth edition, 1908, Chapter ii, page 38; "New Zealand Nautical Almanac, 1917," pages 245 and 246.

GEORGE ALLPORT,
Secretary.

Notice to Mariners.—No. 14 of 1917.
TIME-SIGNAL AT LYTTELTON.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 28th February, 1917.
THE Government Astronomer has notified the following changes in connection with the time-signal at Lyttelton, viz.:—

On days when accurate time-signals are given, arrangements have been made to drop the Lyttelton Harbour Board's time-