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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 44

Special Books in Languages and Literature for the Teachers’ Class C Certificate Examinations of August, 1938 and 1939.

Education Department,
Wellington, 24th June, 1937.

IN pursuance of regulations under the Education Act, 1914, notice is hereby given that at the Teachers’ Class C Certificate Examinations of August, 1938 and 1939, respectively, the special books of which a knowledge will be required will be as follows:—

(a) AUGUST, 1938.

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, “Lotus 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”; Sir Walter Scott, “Guy Mannering”; Walpole, “The Cathedral”; Conrad, “Lord Jim.”

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, “Georgic II.”

FRENCH.—A. France, “Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard”; Molière, “Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme”; Voltaire, “Zaïre.”

(b) AUGUST, 1939.

General Literature.—Spenser, “Faery Queene,” Book I; Shakespeare, “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Julius Cæsar”; Milton, “Paradise Lost,” Book IV; Defoe, “Journal of the Plague Year”; Blake’s “Songs of Innocence”; Johnson, Essays Nos. 51, 157, and 181 in “The Rambler”; Coleridge, “Ancient Mariner,” “Christabel”; Keats, Selection from “Endymion,” “To a Nightingale,” “On a Grecian Urn,” “To Autumn”; Shelley, “Adonais,” “To a Skylark,” “To the West Wind,” “To the Night,” “A Dream of the Unknown.”

Drama.—Shakespeare, as above; Sheridan “The Rivals”; Barrie, “Mary Rose.”

Novels.—George Eliot, “Adam Bede”; 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; Bridges, Brooke, De La Mare, Hardy, Masefield, Newbolt.

LATIN.—Pliny, Letters (Allen-Oxford, pp. 49 to end); Virgil, “Aeneid VI.”

FRENCH.—A. Daudet, “Lettres de mon Moulin” (Nelson); V. Hugo, “La Légende des Siècles” (Oxford Higher French Series); Molière, “Les Femmes Savantes.”

N. T. LAMBOURNE, Director of Education.

Branch of Friendly Society registered.

Friendly Societies Department,
Wellington, 29th June, 1937.

THE Loyal Te Puke Lodge, No. 8331, with registered office at Te Puke, is registered as a branch of the Auckland District of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows (New Zealand) Friendly Society, under the Friendly Societies Act, 1909, this 29th day of June, 1937.

R. SINEL,
Registrar of Friendly Societies.

New Zealand Dairy Board Election, 1937.

DECLARATION OF RESULT OF ELECTION IN THE SOUTHERN WARD.

I, LEONARD IRWIN, Returning Officer appointed under section 19 of the Agriculture (Emergency Powers) Act, 1934, do hereby declare the result of the election in the Southern Ward for a member of the New Zealand Dairy Board, which closed at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, the 23rd June, 1937, to be as follows:—

Votes.
Dunlop, John .. .. .. 17,277
Timpany, Thomas Marr .. .. .. 3,561

I therefore declare the said John Dunlop to be elected.

Dated at Wellington, this 24th day of June, 1937.

L. IRWIN, Returning Officer.

CROWN LANDS NOTICES.

Land in North Auckland Land District for Selection on Optional Tenures.

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 30th June, 1937.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on optional tenures under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 16th August, 1937.

Applicants should appear personally for examination at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, on Wednesday, 18th August, 1937, at 10.30 o’clock a.m., but if any applicant is unable to attend he may be examined by any other Land Board or by any Commissioner of Crown Lands.

Applicants are required to produce for inspection when examined documentary evidence of their financial position, such as bank pass-books, certificates or letters of credit from managers of banks, financial institutions, or mercantile firms, or from private persons or parents undertaking to give financial assistance. Persons undertaking to assist financially should state to what extent they are prepared to do so and supply guarantees of their own financial position.

The ballot will be held immediately upon conclusion of the examination of applicants, and the successful applicant is required to pay immediately at conclusion of ballot a deposit comprising the first half-year’s rent, broken-period rent, lease fee, and amount of improvement loading.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.—FIRST-CLASS LAND.

Waitemata County.—Paremoremo Parish.

ALLOTMENT 439: Area, 30 acres. Capital value, £150. Deposit on deferred payments, £10: Half-yearly instalment on deferred payments, £4 11s. Renewable lease: Half-yearly rent, £3.

Weighted with £19 (to be paid in cash) for improvements, comprising fencing and a number of Pinus insignis trees which have been planted on the area.

This property is situated on Rosedale Road, approximately half a mile from the East Coast Road at Albany, and about nine miles and a half from Devonport by metalled road. Undulating land in scrub and Pinus insignis. Practically all ploughable. The soil is a heavy loam resting on clay; watered by swampy streams.

Any further particulars required may be obtained from the undersigned.

W. D. ARMIT,
Commissioner of Crown Lands.

(H.O. 26/26145; D.O. D.S. 572.)

Land in North Auckland Land District for Selection on Renewable Lease.

North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office,
Auckland, 30th June, 1937.

NOTICE is hereby given that the undermentioned section is open for selection on renewable lease under the Land Act, 1924; and applications will be received at the North Auckland District Lands and Survey Office, Auckland, up to 4 o’clock p.m. on Monday, 16th August, 1937.