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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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respectively, the special books of which a knowledge will be required will be as follows:

(a) AUGUST, 1931.

ENGLISH. —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.

Reasonable knowledge showing only appreciation of the structure and characterization in the following works by the authors named will be required.

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.

LATIN.—Livy V; Virgil, Aen. IV.

FRENCH.—Beaumarchais, “Le Barbier de Séville”; Bazin, “La Terre qui Meurt”; Molière, “Tartuffe.”

(b) AUGUST, 1932.

ENGLISH. —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.

A reasonable knowledge showing only appreciation of the structure and characterization in the following works by the authors named will be required.

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”; Tennyson, “Lotos Eaters,” “Morte D’Arthur”; Browning, “Abt. Vogler,” “Rabbi Ben Ezra.”

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

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

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

LATIN.—Livy IX; Virgil, Aen VI.

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

T. B. STRONG, Director of Education.

School Colours.

Education Department,

Wellington, 26th March, 1931.

THE following claim for registration of school colours has been received in accordance with the regulations published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 12th August,

1915 ; the claim will be registered unless objection is received by me within forty days of the publication hereof.

GREYMOUTH TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL.

Colours : Blue, Gold and Red.

Monogram : Letters “G.T.H.S.” in gold on a blue ground.

T. B. STRONG, Registration Officer.

Officiating Ministers for 1931.—Notice No. 12.

Registrar-General’s Office,

Wellington, 31st March, 1931.

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:

Congregational Independents.

Mr. Raymond Simpson.

The Salvation Army.

Captain George R. Thompson.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Officiating Ministers for 1931.—Notice No. 13.

Registrar-General’s Office,

Wellington, 31st March, 1931.

IT is hereby notified that the following names of Officiating Ministers have been removed from the list of Officiating Ministers under the Marriage Act, 1908, by request:

The Church of the Province of New Zealand, commonly called the Church of England.

The Reverend Harry Augustus Coleman,

The Reverend John Ecclestone,

The Reverend Thomas Wallace Edwards,

The Reverend Francis James Ferry,

The Reverend Claude Edward Hyde,

The Reverend Alexander Moncur Niblock,

The Right Reverend Bishop William Walmsley Sedgwick, D.D., and

The Reverend Francis Carew Thomas.

W. W. COOK, Registrar-General.

Main Highways Act.—Constitution of Main Highway Districts.

THE following resolution was passed by the Main Highways Board, at a meeting held at Wellington on the 30th day of March, 1931:

Whereas, in pursuance of section 8 of the Main Highways Act, 1922, the Board did, by resolution passed on the 16th day of December, 1927, and published in the Gazette on the 26th day of January, 1928, at page 224, constitute the highway districts set out in the said resolution, and define the boundaries thereof:

And whereas it is expedient that the boundaries of the Nos. 1 and 2 Highway Districts be altered as hereinafter appears:

Now, therefore, the Board hereby resolves: “That, as from the 1st day of April, 1931, the boundaries of the respective highway districts enumerated in the Schedule hereto be the external boundaries of the contiguous areas comprised within the counties, boroughs, and town districts (not forming part of counties) which are set out in the said Schedule, following the name of each respective highway district.

SCHEDULE.

HIGHWAY DISTRICT No. 1.

ALL that area comprised within the Counties of Mangonui, Hokianga, Bay of Islands, Whangaroa, Hobson, Whangarei, Otamatea, and Rodney, and the Borough of Dargaville, and the Town Districts (not forming part of a county) of Kaitaia, Kamo, Hikurangi, Kaikohe, and Warkworth.

HIGHWAY DISTRICT No. 2.

All that area comprised within the Counties of Waitemata, Eden, Manukau, Franklin, Waikato, Raglan, Waipa, Coromandel, Thames, Hauraki Plains, Ohinemuri, Piako, and Matamata, and the Boroughs of Birkenhead, Northcote, Newmarket, Otahuhu, Pukekohe, Cambridge, Ngaruawahia, Te Awamutu, Te Aroha, Morrinsville, Paeroa, Waihi, and Thames, and the Town Districts (not forming part of a