Nov. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 3449

Notice to Mariners No. 69 of 1927.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 27th October, 1927.

PUBLICATION OF THE NEW ZEALAND NAUTICAL ALMANAC
AND TIDE TABLES FOR THE YEAR 1928.

THE Nautical Almanac and Tide Tables for the year
1928 will be published on 4th November, 1927, immediately after which the book will be available by purchase
from Government Shipping Offices and from the Marine
Department, at Wellington.

This publication will, as formerly, embrace the astronomical
ephemeris required for use by navigators, together with some
useful nautical tables, with the necessary explanations; sunrise and sunset times for Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin,
and Wellington for each day; and time differences by the
aid of which such times may be obtained for Invercargill,
Nelson, New Plymouth, and Westport. Tide tables giving
daily times of high and low water and their heights are provided for the Ports of Auckland, Bluff, Dunedin, Lyttelton,
New Plymouth, Wellington, and Westport. Also time differences by the application of which the approximate times of
high and low water at various places within the Dominion
may be obtained. Tidal-stream predictions showing the
approximate times when the streams are slack at Tory Channel
and at French Pass are given for each tide throughout the year.

The principal ports of the Dominion are described from
latest information, which has been revised by the several
harbour authorities; and some plans of harbours and berthage
accommodation are given.

Several important changes which have taken place since
publication of Supplement No. 7 of the “New Zealand Pilot,”
ninth edition, 1919, are included for the use of mariners.

The book contains the magnetic variation throughout the
Dominion for the year 1928; a catalogue of the several
Admiralty Charts of this Dominion’s coasts, &c., showing
the last year of correction; Dominion time service for
chronometer-rating purposes; Dominion standard time;
general harbour and storm signals; general information of
use to navigators and others; a list of Customs controlling
ports; railway distances, and a map of New Zealand; and
important Notices to Mariners issued by the Imperial Board
of Trade.

Prospective purchasers, especially those desiring a number
of copies, should make early application for such, so as to
ensure receiving a supply from the first issue coming to hand
from the printer, as sometimes a week or more may elapse
between first and subsequent issues.

Published by direction of the Hon. the Minister of Marine.
Price, 3s. 6d.

G. C. GODFREY, Secretary.

Sitting of the Native Land Court at Rotorua on the 28th November,
1927.

Registrar’s Office,
Rotorua, 29th October, 1927.

NOTICE is hereby given that the matters mentioned in the
Schedule hereunder written will be heard by the Native
Land Court sitting at Rotorua on the 28th day of November,
1927, or as soon thereafter as the business of the Court will
allow.

[Waiariki, 1927/13.] T. ANARU, Registrar.

SCHEDULE.

APPLICATION FOR ASSESSMENT OF COMPENSATION.

No. 34. Name of applicant: Minister of Public Works.
Name of land: Rotomahana-Parekarangi, 6A2/5B 3. Nature
of application: Assessment of compensation for land taken
for a quarry.

Postmaster appointed to take and receive Statutory Declarations.

PURSUANT to the authority conferred upon me by the
two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices
of the Peace Act, 1908, I, General Sir Charles Fergusson,
Baronet, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand,
do hereby notify and declare that

Richard George Brain,

being a person holding the office of Postmaster under the Post
and Telegraph Act, 1908, at Mokai, is authorized to take
and receive statutory declarations under the two-hundred-and-eighty-eighth section of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908.

As witness my hand, this 1st day of November, 1927.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

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Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 26th October, 1927.

THE Dannevirke United Friendly Societies’ Dispensary,
situated at Dannevirke, is registered as a Friendly
Society under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 26th day
of October, 1927.

R. WITHEFORD,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

Special Books in English Language and Literature for the
Teachers’ Class C Certificate Examinations of August, 1928
and 1929.

Education Department,
Wellington, 28th October, 1927.

IN pursuance of regulations under the Education Act, 1914,
notice is hereby given that for the Teachers’ Class C
Certificate Examinations of August, 1928 and 1929 respectively, the list of special books of which a knowledge will be
required in the subject of English Language and Literature as
notified in the New Zealand Gazette No. 8 of the 10th February,
1927, is hereby cancelled, and the following list substituted
in lieu thereof:—

(a) August, 1928.

General Literature.—Chaucer, “Prologue to the Canterbury
Tales”; Shakespeare, “Macbeth,” “Twelfth Night”; Milton, “Paradise Lost, Book I”; Bunyan, “Pilgrim’s Progress”; Goldsmith, Essays, Nos. 25, 26, and 97, in “Citizen of the World”; Wordsworth, “Ode on Immortality,” “Lines above Tintern Abbey,” “The Reaper,” “To Milton”; Shelley, “Adonais,” “To a Skylark,” “To the West Wind,” “To the Night,” “A Dream of the Unknown”; Browning, “Abt. Vogler,” “Rabbi Ben Ezra.”

Drama.—Shakespeare, as above; Goldsmith, “She Stoops
to Conquer”; Shaw, “You Never Can Tell.”

Novels.—Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice”; George
Eliot, “Adam Bede”; Sir Walter Scott, “Guy Mannering”; Conrad, “Lord Jim”; Walpole, “The Cathedral.”

Modern Poetry.—A selection from the works of the following
as contained in the “Golden Treasury of Modern Lyrics,
Part II”: Bridges, Davies, Flecker, Kipling, Meynell,
Thompson.

Candidates will be required to give evidence of a competent
knowledge of the principles of English composition, and
display ability to write good English. They must also show
satisfactory knowledge of English literature based upon a
general survey from 1579 to the present day. This survey
shall include (1) a study of the principal literary movements
and their leaders; (2) a short treatment of the origin and
development of the drama; (3) the evolution of the English
novel; (4) the main streams of romantic and classical poetry;
(5) acquaintance with modern poetry. Candidates are also
required to know something of the broad principles on which
children’s literature should be selected and studied.

(b) August, 1929.

General Literature.—Spenser, “Faery Queene, Book I”; Shakespeare, “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Julius Caesar”; Milton, “Paradise Lost, Book IV”; Swift, “Gulliver’s Travels”; Johnson, Essays, Nos. 51, 157, and 181, in “The Rambler”; Coleridge, “Ancient Mariner,” “Christabel”; Keats, Selections from “Endymion,” “To a Nightingale,” “On a Grecian Urn,” “To Autumn”; Tennyson, “Lotos Eaters” “Morte D’Arthur.”

Drama.—Shakespeare, as above; Sheridan, “The Rivals”; Barrie, “Quality Street.”

Novels.—C. Bronte, “Jane Eyre”; Thackeray, “Esmond”; Dickens, “David Copperfield”; Hardy, “Under the Greenwood Tree”; Galsworthy, “The Man of Property.”

Modern Poetry.—A selection from the works of the following
as contained in the “Golden Treasury of Modern Lyrics,”
Part II”: Brooke, De la Mare, Hardy, Masefield, Newbolt, Yeats.

Candidates will be required to give evidence of a competent
knowledge of the principles of English composition, and
display ability to write good English. They must also show
satisfactory knowledge of English literature based upon a
general survey from 1579 to the present day. This survey
shall include (1) a study of the principal literary movements
and their leaders; (2) a short treatment of the origin and
development of the drama; (3) the evolution of the English
novel; (4) the main streams of romantic and classical poetry;
(5) acquaintance with modern poetry. Candidates are also
required to know something of the broad principles on which
children’s literature should be selected and studied.

NOTE.—For the years 1928 and 1929 a reasonable knowledge
showing only appreciation of the structure and characterization in the above works by the authors named will be
required.

T. B. STRONG, Director of Education.