FEB. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 579

Certificates of Naturalization granted.

Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, 18th February, 1925.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that certificates of naturalization, in accordance with the provisions of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens (in New Zealand) Act, 1923, have been granted to the persons named and described hereunder.

RICHD. F. BOLLARD, Minister of Internal Affairs.

Schemes of Control of Secondary Schools.

Education Department, Wellington, 17th February, 1925.

IN accordance with the provisions of the Education Act, 1914, and with the powers thereunder, I, Christopher James Parr, Minister of Education, do hereby, on the advice of the General Council of Education, approve of the following amendment in the schemes of control for the secondary schools named in the Schedule hereto :-

The definition of "parent" in subclause (3) of the provisions for the election of members by parents is hereby deleted, and the following substituted therefor:-

"'Parent' means both the father and the mother of a pupil of the school, or, if neither parent is living, means the guardian having the custody or control of a pupil of the school."

C. J. PARR, Minister of Education.

SCHEDULE.

ASHBURTON High School.
Auckland Grammar School and Auckland Girls' Grammar School.
Dannevirke High School.
Gisborne High School.
Gore High School.
Hamilton High School.
Marlborough High School.
Napier High School.
Nelson College and Nelson Girls' College.
Otago Boys' and Girls' High Schools.
Palmerston North High Schools.
Rangiora High School.
Southland Boys' and Girls' High Schools.
Thames High School.
Timaru High Schools.
Wairarapa High School.
Waitaki High Schools.
Wanganui Girls' College.
Whangarei High School.

Officiating Ministers for 1925.—Notice No. 4.

Registrar-General's Office, Wellington, 17th February, 1925.

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 :-

The Presbyterian Church of New Zealand.
The Reverend John Gilman Sharp Dunn.
The Church of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost and their Holy Angels.
The Reverend H. Areka.
Moananui Hare.
Otene Paora.
Hare Pomare.
Waipouri Tamati.
Huru Wiperi.

Erratum.

In Notice No. 1, published in New Zealand Gazette on the 29th January, 1925, page 256, under "Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England," for "The Reverend John Nevill Thompson" (as returned) read "The Reverend James Nevill Thompson."

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

State Forest Service Notice—Land in Rotorua Forest-conservation Region acquired as a State Forest.

State Forest Service, Wellington, 12th February, 1925.

NOTICE is hereby given that the land described in the Schedule hereto has been acquired as a permanent State Forest under section 22 of the Forests Act, 1921-22.

SCHEDULE.

ROTORUA FOREST-CONSERVATION REGION.—AUCKLAND LAND REGISTRATION DISTRICT.

State Forest No. 73.

Reference : State Forest plan 38/11.

E. PHILLIPS TURNER,
Secretary of Forestry.

Land Surveyors' Examination, March, 1925, Australia and New Zealand.

The Surveyors Board of New Zealand, Wellington, 12th February, 1925.

IT is hereby notified, for general information, that the Surveyors Board, in conjunction with the Australian Surveyors Boards, will conduct an examination of candidates completing sittings for licenses to survey, commencing at 10 a.m. on Monday, 23rd March, 1925, at Wellington.

Candidates are notified that their applications, on the proper form, must reach the Secretary of the Board not later than Thursday, 12th March, and that the examination fee of £1 1s. must be paid at the same time to the Secretary, from whom examination regulations, application forms, and other particulars may be obtained. Candidates desiring to sit in other centres than Wellington must forward a double fee of £2 2s.

At this examination no candidates sitting for the first time will be accepted, only those completing former sittings.

M. CROMPTON-SMITH, Secretary, Surveyors Board.
Government Buildings, Wellington.