JUNE 21.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1755

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block III, Kawhia North Survey District, for the Purposes of a Native School.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute a certain public work—to wit, the construction of a Native school in Block III, Kawhia North Survey District; and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Te Papatapu, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works at Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land required to be taken: 4 acres.
Portion of Moerangi 3d No. 2 Block, situated in Block III, Kawhia North Survey District (Auckland R.D.). (S.O. 22674.)

In the Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 56671, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon bordered red.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 15th day of June, 1923.

J. G. COATES, Minister of Public Works

Kaitangata Relief Fund.

STATEMENT of account of the Public Trustee's administration from 31st March, 1922, to 31st March, 1923:

Cr.
By Balance brought forward .. .. 3,515 6 11 Public Trust Office— Interest to 31/3/23, at 5 per cent. .. 173 16 9 £3,689 3 8

Dr.
To Beneficiaries' Accounts— Allowances to 1/4/23 .. .. 104 0 0 Balance .. .. .. 3,585 3 8 £3,689 3 8 By Balance .. .. .. £3,585 3 8

J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.
Public Trust Office,
Wellington, 28th March, 1923.

Te Makarini Scholarships tenable at Te Aute College, Hawke's Bay.

Education Department,
Wellington, 21st June, 1923,

TWO scholarships of the yearly value of £35, tenable for two years, are offered for competition in the year 1923. One of these scholarships, to be called the Senior Makarini Scholarship, is open to all Maori boys under sixteen years of age at the end of the month next preceding the month of the examination. The other scholarship, to be called the Junior Makarini Scholarship, is open to Maori boys who have been in regular attendance at Native village schools and are under fourteen years of age at the end of the month preceding the month of the examination. The scholarships are open to Maori boys on the conditions set forth in the regulations of the Trustees of the Te Makarini Scholarships Fund, as printed in the Appendix to the Regulations relating to Native Schools, except that for the Junior Scholarship the age-limit is now fourteen years, and that for the senior examination the work required is that of Standard VI instead of Standard V. The examination will be held at convenient centres on the 3rd and 4th of December, 1923. Candidates must, either directly or through their teachers, send notice to the Senior Inspector of Native Schools, Education Department, Wellington, of their intention to present themselves for examination. Such notice must be

posted so as to reach the Department not later than the 30th of September, 1923.

Copies of the regulations and forms of notice may be obtained from teachers of Native schools and boarding institutions, the Secretaries to Education Boards, or the Director of Education, Wellington.

JOHN PORTEOUS,
Senior Inspector of Native Schools.

Interim Return of Sheep in the Dominion on 30th April, 1923.
(Complete and final figures not yet available.)
Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 18th June, 1923.

THE following particulars are published for general information:-

APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF SHEEP IN THE DOMINION ON THE 30TH APRIL, 1923.

NUMBER OF SHEEP IN THE DOMINION AND EXPORT OF MUTTON AND LAMB FOR THE PAST TEN YEARS AT 30TH APRIL.

• Interim return.

W. NOSWORTHY, Minister of Agriculture.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in Auckland Forest-conservation Region acquired as a State Forest.

State Forest Service,
Wellington, 16th June, 1923.

NOTICE is hereby given that the land described in the Schedule hereto has been acquired as a State forest under section 120 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act, 1921–22.

SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.

State Forest No. 17.

ALL that area of land situate in Block XVI, Motatau Survey District, in the North Auckland Land District, containing by admeasurement 803 acres 2 roods 32 perches,