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• THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
  [No. 35

Conscience-money received.

The Treasury,
Wellington, 21st May, 1924.

I HEREBY acknowledge receipt of the following amounts forwarded by persons unknown as conscience-money to the New Zealand Government: 10s. and £1, forwarded to the Railway Department, Wellington; £1 5s., forwarded to the Treasury Department, Wellington.

J. J. ESSON, Secretary to the Treasury.

Officiating Ministers for 1924.—Notice No. 18.

Registrar-General’s Office,
Wellington, 20th May, 1924.

PURSUANT to the provisions of the Marriage Act, 1908, the following names of Officiating Ministers within the meaning of the said Act are published for general information:—

Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend Walter Henry Norton.

Congregational Independents.
The Reverend D. Gardner Miller.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Post and Telegraph Department.—Tenders for Supply of Uniforms.

General Post Office,
Wellington, 19th May, 1924.

TENDERS will be received at the office of the Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington, not later than 4 p.m. on Wednesday, the 4th June, 1924, for the supply and delivery of uniforms (cloth and waterproof), head-gear, and leggings, during the half-year ending 31st December, 1924.

Forms and conditions of tender may be obtained at the office of the Stores Manager, Post and Telegraph Department, Wellington, and the offices of the District Telegraph Engineers, Post and Telegraph Department, Auckland, Christchurch, and Dunedin.

G. McNAMARA, Acting-Secretary.

Chief Inspector of Machinery, Chief Surveyor of Ships, Chief Examiner of Engineers, and Chairman of the Board of Examiners appointed.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 15th May, 1924.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointment in the Public Service:—

William Cullen, Esq.,

to be Chief Inspector of Machinery for the purposes of the Inspection of Machinery Act, 1908, and Chief Surveyor of Ships and Chief Examiner of Engineers for the purposes of the Shipping and Seamen Act, 1908, and Chairman of the Board of Examiners in accordance with the provisions of section 17 (3A) of the Inspection of Machinery Amendment Act, 1908, as from the 29th day of April, 1924.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.

Special Books in Languages and Literature for the Teachers’ Class C Certificate Examinations of August, 1924, 1925, and 1926.

Education Department,
Wellington, 15th May, 1924.

IN pursuance of regulations under the Education Act, 1914, notice is hereby given that at the Teachers’ Class C Certificate Examinations of August, 1924, 1925, and 1926 respectively the special books of which a knowledge will be required will be as follows:—

(a.) August, 1924.

ENGLISH.—Shakespeare, “Merchant of Venice,” “Julius Cæsar”; Gray, Poems; Goldsmith, “Deserted Village”; Johnson, “Life of Swift”; Gibbon, Autobiography. In addition, a knowledge of the period of literature 1744 to 1798 will be required. Special attention must be paid to Johnson, Burke, Gibbon, Goldsmith, 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 Continental literatures on the English literature of the period must also be examined. Candidates must have some acquaintance with the general outlines of English literature, including a knowledge and appreciation of the thought and style of standard English authors from Shakespeare to Tennyson.

LATIN.—Cicero, “Pro Milone”; Horace, “Odes I and II.”

FRENCH.—Hugo, “Quatre-vingt-treize”; Rostand, “L’Aiglon”; Molière, “Le Misanthrope.”

(b.) August, 1925.

ENGLISH.—Wordsworth, edited by Matthew Arnold (Golden Treasury Series); Shelley, “Adonais”; Lamb, “Essays of Elia” (First Series); Thackeray, “Esmond.” In addition, a special knowledge of the period of literature 1798 to 1840 will be required. Special attention must be paid to Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Scott, Lamb, Macaulay, and Carlyle, 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. Candidates must have some acquaintance with the general outlines of English literature, including a knowledge and appreciation of the thought and style of standard English authors from Shakespeare to Tennyson.

LATIN.—Livy V; Virgil, “Aeneid IV.”

FRENCH.—de Tocqueville, “L’Ancien Régime”; R. Bazin, “La Terre qui Meurt”; Molière, “Tartuffe.”

(c.) August, 1926.

ENGLISH.—Shakespeare, “Macbeth,” “The Tempest”; Spenser, “Faery Queen,” Book I; Bacon, Essays; George Eliot, “Romola.” In addition, a special knowledge of the period of literature 1579 to 1625 will be required. Special attention must be paid to Marlowe, Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Bacon, and Jonson, 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. Candidates must have some acquaintance with the general outlines of English literature, including a knowledge and appreciation of the thought and style of standard English authors from Shakespeare to Tennyson.

LATIN.—Cicero, “Pro Murena”; Virgil, “Aeneid VI.”

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

J. CAUGHLEY, Director of Education.

Notice of Vesting of Land in the Public Trustee under the Public Trust Office Act, 1908, Part II, Unclaimed Lands.

WHEREAS I, the undersigned, the Public Trustee, have, for the purposes of Part II of the Public Trust Office Act, 1908 (relating to unclaimed lands), made due inquiries with respect to the land described in the Schedule hereunder, and the whereabouts of the owner thereof, and have, in respect of the said land, given the notices prescribed by section 66 of that Act, and have in all respects complied with the provisions of that Act pertinent hereto: And whereas I have not thereby ascertained the whereabouts of the owner, and believe that such owner or an agent of such owner is not in the Dominion, nor has such owner established his title to the said land, as required by the said Act: I hereby give notice that the said land is, under and by virtue of the said Act, vested in the Public Trustee as aforesaid, as from the date of the publication hereof, and will be administered under the Public Trust Office Act, 1908; the value of the land for the purposes of section 67 (d) of the said Act being less than £500.

Dated at Wellington, this 19th day of May, 1924.

J. W. MACDONALD, Public Trustee.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that piece or parcel of land situate in the Provincial District of Auckland, containing by admeasurement 1 rood, more or less, being Allotment 161, Section 11, Village of Papakura. Bounded on the north by a public road, 100 links; on the east by Allotment 159, 250 links; on the west by Allotments 163 and 164, 250 links; and on the south by other part said Section 11, 100 links: be all the several admeasurements a little more or less. Subject to mortgage No. 335 to the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland, securing £200, and interest at 1 per cent. And being the whole of the land contained in certificate of title Volume 4, folio 84, Auckland Registry, in the name of Edward Gotch, of Papakura, Tobacco-manufacturer.