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of land and householders in every Educational district, being male persons above twenty-one years of ages, 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.

PROVINCIAL SCHOLARSHIPS.—The following Regulations of the Education Board respecting Provincial Scholarships are published for general information. School teachers are requested to forward to me, before the 10th January, 1874, a list containing the names and ages of intending competitors belonging to their several schools.

By order of the Education Board,

JOHN SPERREY,
Secretary.

REGULATIONS.

1. Two Scholarships in connection with the Boys’ High School, and two in connection with the Girls’ High School, shall be open for competition on the 20th of January, 1874, to boys and girls respectively who shall have attended the public schools of Otago for at least one quarter during the current year (1873). One of the boys’ and one of the girls’ Scholarships shall be bestowed on a boy and a girl respectively from the High Schools or the Grammar Schools. The other two Scholarships shall be conferred on a boy and a girl respectively from the ordinary District Schools. Competitors must be under sixteen years of age at the date of the competition.

2. The holders for the time being of the said Scholarships shall be called “Provincial Scholars,” and shall be entitled to the privileges and advantages hereinafter specified. A scholarship shall be tenable as long as the holder of it remains a pupil of the Boys’ or Girls’ High School, but not longer than three years. The Education Board may extend the period of tenure in the case of any Provincial Scholar who may have given highly satisfactory evidence of diligence and progress in study.

3. The said Scholarships respectively shall be awarded to such candidates as shall have shown the greatest proficiency at a Competitive Examination, to be held at Dunedin on the day above specified; such Competitive Examination shall be by written papers, and shall embrace the following subjects:—

I. English Grammar, including Analysis of Sentences.

II. Geography.—The Elements of Mathematical and Physical Geography; the chief Physical Features, Political Divisions, and Principal Towns of Europe and Australasia; the drawing from memory of an outline Map of a country in Europe or a colony in Australasia, to be named by the Examiners.

III. British History.—The Tudor Period, 1485—1603; and the Reign of Queen Victoria.

IV. Arithmetic.—Simple and compound Rules, Practice, Simple and Compound Proportion, Vulgar and Decimal Fractions, Interest, Discount, Profit and Loss, Extraction of the Square Root, Square Measure and Duodecimals.

V. Algebra.—For Common School competitors, the Four Elementary Rules; for High and Grammar School competitors, as far as Simple Equations, inclusive.

VI. Euclid.—For Common School competitors, Book I, prop. 1—15; for High and Grammar School competitors, the whole of Book I.

VII. Writing from Dictation.

VIII. A simple Narrative, selected by the Examiners, to be read aloud to the competitors and reproduced by them.

IX. A short Essay on some familiar subject to be named by the Examiners.

X. Penmanship, as shown by the competitors’ papers under subjects VII, VIII, and IX. Preference will be given to a plain round hand.

XI. Latin.—(High and Grammar School Boys), Grammar and Accidence; translation into English of a passage in Latin.

XII. French.—(High and Grammar School Girls), Grammar; translation into English of a passage from a French author.

XIII. Marks will be given for the reading of Prose and Poetry, and for Recitation from memory.

4. It shall not be necessary to award a scholarship to the best, or any other candidate, unless he or she shall have gained, in the aggregate, at least 70 per cent. of the number of marks attainable; and the Board shall be at liberty to suspend or terminate any scholarship on account of wilful misconduct or neglect of studies on the part of the holder.

5. Each holder of a Provincial Scholarship shall receive free education at the High School and a payment of £30 per annum.

6. Free education for terms of not less than two years nor more than four years may, at the discretion of the Board, be granted to the unsuccessful competitors for Scholarships who shall have gained a satisfactory percentage of the whole number of marks attainable; such Free Scholars may attend the High School, a Grammar School, or an approved Main District School, at their option.

7. Certificates of Merit will be granted to those competitors who, though failing to gain Scholarships, distinguished themselves greatly.

8. Teachers must forward to the Secretary of the Education Board, before the 10th January, 1874, the names of intending competitors belonging to their respective schools, together with a certificate of the age of every such scholar.

TO SCHOOL TEACHERS.

MR. HISLOP, Inspector of Schools, will hold an examination of Teachers and Pupil Teachers, and of persons desirous of being employed as such, at the Grammar School, Invercargill, upon Friday and Saturday, the 26th and 27th December, 1873, at half-past 9 o’clock a.m. each day.

TO SCHOOLMASTERS.—The School Committee of Tokomairiro invite applications for the office of Head-Master of the Grammar School, Milton. Further information will be given on application at my office, Milton, or at the Education Office, Dunedin. Applications, with testimonials and references, to be lodged with me on or before January 2nd, 1874.

R. R. JONES,
Clerk to School Committee, Milton.

TENDERS will be received at the Office of the Secretary for Works, until noon of Tuesday, 16th Dec., 1873, for

Contract No. 480.—Construction of 57 chains of road, between Shag Valley and Waihemo.

Plans and specifications may be seen and forms of tender obtained at the office of the Provincial Engineer, Dunedin, and at Police Camp, Palmerston.

Tenders to be indorsed “Tender for Contract No. 480.”

The Government does not undertake to accept the lowest or any tender.

HORACE BASTINGS,
Secretary for Works.

Dunedin, 2nd December 1873.

AT CONTRACTOR’S RISK.

FRESH TENDERS will be received at the office of the Secretary for Works until noon of Tuesday, 23rd December, 1873, for

Contract No. 708—Completion of the works for the construction of a timber bridge across Jacobs River.

Plans and specifications may be seen and forms of Tender obtained at the Office of the Provincial Engineer, Dunedin; and at District Engineer’s Office, Invercargill.

Tenders to be indorsed “Tender for Contract No. 708.”

The Government does not undertake to accept the lowest or any tender.

HORACE BASTINGS,
Secretary for Works.

Dunedin, 2nd December, 1873.