2032
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 54

New Zealand Schools of Mines.—Rules Governing Scholarship Examinations.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 17th June, 1941.

SIX scholarships will be offered annually for competition by students attending Schools of Mines within the Dominion—three for the South Island and three for the North Island.

2. The scholarships will be tenable for four years at the University of Otago and will be of an annual value of £50 each to successful candidates who, while attending the classes at the University of Otago, have to reside away from their homes, and of £30 each to successful candidates who are able to reside at their homes while attending the University classes.

3. Holders of scholarships will be required to attend during the University session at the University of Otago (no class fees will be charged on subjects contained in the curriculum of the Otago School of Mines), and during the long recess will also be required to engage in approved practical work at one of the mines or batteries in the Dominion, or in the field with the New Zealand Geological Survey Department.

4. Qualifying examinations for scholarship candidates will be held in or about the month of November in each year on such days and at such centres as the Under-Secretary of the Mines Department may appoint.

5. The examination will embrace six of the following subjects, the scope and standard of which are prescribed in the syllabus of the New Zealand Schools of Mines:—

(1) Mathematics.
(2) Elementary Mechanics.
(3) Theoretical Chemistry.
(4) Practical Chemistry and Quantitative Analysis.
(5) Electricity.
(6) Geometrical and Mechanical Drawing.
(7) General and Mining Geology.
(8) Metallurgy of Gold and Silver.
(9) (a) Coal-mining; or (b) Metal-mining.
(10) Winding, Haulage, and Pumping.
(11) Ventilation.
(12) Land and Mine Surveying.

Three subjects—namely, Mathematics, Electricity, and either Elementary Mechanics or Theoretical Chemistry—will be compulsory for all candidates.

6. The scholarships will be awarded to those candidates who, having complied with the prescribed conditions, obtain the highest total marks in three compulsory subjects and three optional subjects, but no scholarship shall be awarded to any candidate unless he has obtained not less than 60 per cent. of the marks in each of these six subjects.

7. The examination may be passed as a whole or in sections, and shall be open to all students attending Schools of Mines who are not less than sixteen years of age on the 1st day of November of the year in which the examination is held: Provided that no student, unless granted exemption under the next succeeding clause, shall be eligible for examination in any subject unless he has attended regularly at a School of Mines within the Dominion for not less than one year at least 80 per cent. of the lectures in that subject.

8. The Minister of Mines may grant such exemption from the requirements of the last preceding clause as he thinks reasonable in any case where it was not practicable for a student to attend 80 per cent. of the lectures in a subject in which he desires to be examined, or where no lectures were held in any such subject at the School of Mines at which he was a student, or where the Minister is satisfied on the certificate of a Director of a School of Mines that a student has, either prior to or during his attendance at a School of Mines, completed a satisfactory course of study in any such subject at some other institution.

9. The power of waiver exercisable under the last preceding clause shall be so exercised that no student shall be eligible to sit the examination unless he has attended the lectures prescribed by clause 7 in at least four subjects.

10. In order to qualify for a partial pass in the examination a candidate must obtain not less than 60 per cent. of the marks in each of four subjects. The remaining two subjects may be passed separately provided the whole examination is concluded not later than the second examination succeeding the examination at which the candidate passed the first section.

11. No payment on account of any scholarship will be made until the whole examination is passed and the candidate commences his studies at the University of Otago.

12. Every candidate must make application to sit the examination to the Under-Secretary of the Mines Department at Wellington not later than the 1st day of November preceding the examination.

Such application must state the branch of mining the candidate intends to take up and the subjects in which he desires to be examined, and must be accompanied by a fee of £1 and a certificate from the Director of a School of Mines stating the number of lectures which the candidate has attended in each subject.

Candidates who elect to pass the examination in sections as provided by clause 7 must make separate applications for examination in respect of each section, and each application must be accompanied by a fee of £1 and a certificate of attendance from the Director of a School of Mines.

13. Candidates must present themselves for examination on the days fixed, as provided in clause 4 hereof.

14. The Minister of Mines retains to himself the right to cancel any scholarship should the holder attend irregularly or be reported for idleness or bad conduct, and may, if he considers it reasonable or necessary, hold any scholarship over for such period as he thinks fit.

15. There will be refunded by the Mines Department to holders of scholarships having to pay more than £5 for the return railway (second-class), steamer, or motor-service fares to Dunedin any excess over the sum of £5, but such refund will only be made once in each year. Refunds of motor-service fares will be made only in cases where neither steamer nor railway transport is available or where the cheapest form of transport is by motor-service. Receipts for each fare paid in excess of 5s. (other than railway fares) must accompany each application for a refund.

16. These rules supersede the regulations of 4th October, 1938, published in the New Zealand Gazette of the 6th October, 1938, at page 2190.

P. C. WEBB, Minister of Mines.

(Mines, N. 17/20.)

Demonetization of Stamps.

I, PATRICK CHARLES WEBB, Postmaster-General, in pursuance of the power and authority vested in me by section 10 of the Adhesive Stamps Act, 1939, hereby give notice of my determination to discontinue the use of the dies from which the stamps or stamped paper referred to in the Schedule hereto have heretofore been printed; and I hereby fix the 31st day of December, 1941, for the purposes of subsection (2) of the said section 10 to the intent that every instrument bearing date after the said 31st day of December, 1941, that is stamped with any of the said discontinued dies and every postal packet that is posted after that day and is stamped with any of those dies shall be deemed to be not duly stamped.

SCHEDULE.

STAMPS.

1. Stamps of denominations ½d., 1d., 1½d., 2d., 2½d., 3d., 4d., 4½d., 5d., 6d., 7½d., 8d., 9d., 1s., 2s., 3s., bearing a portrait of King George V; and any stamp of this series overprinted in any way.

2. Air stamps of 1931 and 1934 depicting a lake scene with aeroplane overhead and comprising denominations 3d., 4d., 5d., and 7d.; and the 7d. value printed in blue and overprinted “Trans-Tasman Air Mail ‘Faith in Australia.’”

3. Health stamps—
   (a) 1d. postage, 1d. Health, design depicting “Hygeia—Goddess of Health.” (Issued 1932.)
   (b) 1d. postage, 1d. Health, design depicting “The Path to Health.” (Issued 1933.)
   (c) 1d. postage, 1d. Health, design depicting “The Crusader.” (Issued 1934.)
   (d) 1d. postage, 1d. Health, design depicting “The Key to Health.” (Issued 1935.)
   (e) 1d. postage, 1d. Health, design depicting a girl looking through a lifebelt. (Issued 1936.)

4. “Silver Jubilee” series comprising denominations ½d., 1d., and 6d., issued in 1935 to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the reign of King George V.

5. “Benefit” stamps, 1936, of denominations ½d. + ½d., and 1d. + 1d., bearing the design of a New Zealand soldier at Anzac Cove and commemorating the twenty-first anniversary of the “Anzac” landing at Gallipoli.

6. Stamps of denominations ½d., 1d., 2½d., 4d., and 6d., depicting various industrial scenes and commemorating the Congress of British Empire Chambers of Commerce. (Issued 1936.)

7. Stamps of all denominations issued for stamp-duty purposes and bearing an effigy of Queen Victoria.

8. Stamp-duty stamps of all denominations bearing an effigy of Queen Victoria and overprinted in any way.

9. Postage-due stamps, issued from 1902 (value in white on a red centre) of denominations ½d., 1d., 2d., and 3d.

POSTAL STATIONERY.

10. Registered-letter envelopes, embossed envelopes, postcards, letter-cards, and newspaper wrappers bearing a reproduction of any of the stamps bearing a combination of stamp reproductions or stamp reproductions and overprints of which the following designs may form part: A portrait of Queen Victoria, or a portrait of King George V in the denominations ½d., 1d., 1½d., 2d., 3d., 4d., and 6d.

Given under my hand at Wellington, this 16th day of June, 1941.

P. C. WEBB, Postmaster-General.