Persons in whose favor Crown Grants have been signed,

can only obtain them by calling at the Crown Grant Office, or by sending an Agent with an authority in the subjoined form, signed before a Justice of the Peace, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court, a Clergyman, or Postmaster.

I, A. B., of hereby authorise C. D., of to receive from the Commissioner of Crown Lands the Crown Grant in my favor for section block District, his receipt for which shall be binding on me.

Signature of Claimant.

Signed before me this __ day of ___, 18 _ J.

A Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

EDUCATION BOARD.

The Statutory half-yearly meeting of the Education Board will be held at the Government Buildings, Dunedin, on Thursday, the 18th January, 1872, at 12 o’clock noon.

JOHN HISLOP,
Secretary.

EDUCATION MEETINGS.

MONDAY, 8th JANUARY, 7 P.M.

NOTICE is hereby given, that the Annual Statutory Meeting of the Owners and Occupiers of Land and Householders in each Educational District, for the Election of a new School Committee, and for the other purposes specified by Ordinance, will be held upon Monday, the 8th day of January, 1872, at seven o’clock p.m., at the following mentioned places respectively, viz.:

At Dunedin, in the Middle District School-house, between York Place and Dowling Street.

At Tokomairiro, in the Main District School-house, Milton.

And in the respective School-houses, or buildings used as School-houses, in the following mentioned districts, viz.:

• Port Chalmers, Portobello, North East Harbour, Anderson’s Bay, North East Valley, Wakari, Kaikorai, Mornington, Caversham, Green Island, East Taieri, Saddle Hill, North Taieri, Lake Waipori, Waihola, Balclutha, Warepa, Kaitangata, Blueskin, Waikouaiti, Hampden, Otepopo, Oamaru, Lawrence, Queenstown, Waihola Gorge, West Taieri, Maungatua, Clyde, Alexandra, Naseby (Mount Ida), Palmerston, Waitahuna.

Port Molyneux, Pleasant River, Arrowtown, Cromwell, East Clutha, Waitepeka, Inch Clutha, Kaitangata, Switzers, Invercargill, Long Bush, Wallace Town, Campbelltown, Woodlands, Waianiwa, Flint’s Bush, Roslyn, Winton, Gummie’s Bush-One Tree Point, Rive-ton and Waikivi.

The householders in the following mentioned localities respectively, in which Side Schools have been established or authorised, are advised to meet in the School-houses or buildings used as School-houses, of their respective districts on the aforesaid Monday, the 8th day of January, 1872, at 7 o’clock p.m., for the purpose of electing School Committees for the ensuing year, viz.:

• Teviot, Moa Flat, Hamilton’s, St. Bathans, Waipori, Blue Spur, Weatherstones, Otokia, Popotunoa, Tapanui, Upper Harbour West, Lower Harbour, Whare Flat, Black’s, Te Houka, Waiwera, Merton, Waireka (Cave Valley), Mimihau (Mataura), Hide, Wangaloa, Lower Shag Valley, Moeraki, Macetown, Glenore, South Akatore, Kakanui, Sawyer’s Bay, Highcliff, Tuapeka Mouth, Thomson’s (Drybread), Tuapeka, Taieri Ferry, Greytown, Tuaikoto, Albertown (Wanaka), Sandymount, Mount Cargill, Nokomai, Papakaio, Kuri Bush, Adam’s Flat, Shag Valley, Sowburn, Clarke’s Flat, Forest Hill, Manuka Creek, Mabel Bush, Grove Bush, and Mosgiel.

By order of the Education Board,
JOHN HISLOP,
Secretary.
Dunedin, December 5, 1871.

Extract from Section XIV of the “Education Ordinance, 1864.”

On the second Monday in the month of January in each year, a public meeting of the owners and occupiers of land and householders in every Educational District, being male persons above twenty-one years of age, shall be held at a time and place to be fixed by the Secretary of the Board, and notified by public advertisement at least one month previously, and in such other manner as the Board shall direct, and at such meeting a Chairman shall be chosen and the School Committee for the preceding year shall give a full report of their proceedings, and thereupon the electors present shall proceed to elect, either by show of hands or by ballot, as shall be determined upon by the said meeting, a new School Committee for the ensuing year of not less than five nor more than nine persons possessing the qualifications prescribed by clause 13, and may re-elect all or any of the persons going out of office to be members of such new Committee, and every Committee so to be appointed shall hold office until the appointment of their successors.

WANTED,

A Schoolmaster and Sewing Mistress
for the Native School at Otago Heads. A married couple preferred. Salaries £130 and £20, with house.—Apply in the first instance by letter, stating full particulars, to

I. NEWTON WATT, R.M.
Supreme Court House,
Dunedin, 30th December, 1871.

TONY CREEK Road Board.—Notice to Ratepayers.

All unpaid rates will be sued for after the 20th January, 1872, without further notice.

H. S. M’COLL, Collector,
Hillend, 19th December, 1871.

CLYDEVALE Road Board.

The punt on the Molyneux, at Clydevale Ferry is again in working order.

W. L. TAYLOR, Clerk.

Names and Sections:

• Shrimski, S. E., sections 3, 4 and 5, block V, Reidston
• Simpson, Andrew, section 20, block LXX, Oamaru
• Smith, Geo., section 16, block II, Tutarau district
• Tibbits, C. H., sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 39, 40 and 41, block II, Tutarau district
• Thomson, A. C., sections 3, 5, 29 and 30, block IX, Clutha district
• Tynan, Michael, sections 1, 3, 4, 5, 18, 19, 20 and 21, block IV, Outram
• Tynan, Michael, sections 1, 21 and 22, block V, Outram
• Tyrrell, James, section 15, block I, Clyde
• Valentine, Mary, section 10, block XIV, Hawksbury
• Watkins, T. H., section 12, block LXIV, Hampden
• Wells, William, sections 1, 2 and 3, block XXIV, Clyde
• Welsh, William, section 7, block I, Arrowtown
• Wilkie, James, and others, section 28, block XXV, Dunedin
• Wilkie, William, section 8, block III, Roxburgh
• Williams, B., sections 8, 14, 15 and 16, block XCII, Oamaru
• Nelson, John, section 2, block III, Reidston
• Wright, Martin, section 2, block II, Fortrose