THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

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Objections to the same are lodged previous to the 9th day of December next:

Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 1st September, 1874.

THE undermentioned Town Sections will be sold by auction, at the Land Office, Invercargill, at noon on Friday, the 30th day of October proximo:-

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent of Otago.

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 28th Sept. 1874.

MONDAY, 2nd NOVEMBER.

EDUCATIONAL RESERVES, SOUTHLAND.-
The following Reserves will be Leased by auction, at the Land Office, Invercargill, at noon, on Monday, the 2nd of November next. Further particulars may be obtained on application at the office of Mr. Baker, Invercargill :-

The special attention of agriculturists is called to the leasing of these Educational Reserves in Southland, most of which are first class agricultural land, several of them adjoining the lines of railway now under construction.

It is hereby notified that the following mentioned Sections have been set aside as a School site by the Education Board, viz.: Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, Block II., Edendale Township, containing 1 acre, 2 roods 9 perches, being part of Education Reserve, Section 5, Block I., Mataura Hundred.

JOHN HISLOP, Secretary.

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 15th November, 1874, a list containing the names and ages of intending competitors belonging to their several schools.

By order of the Education Board,
JOHN HISLOP,
Secretary.

REGULATIONS.

1. Three Scholarships in connection with the Boys’ High School, and three in connection with the Girls’ High School, shall be open for competition on the 21st of December, 1874, to boys and girls respectively who shall have attended the public schools of Otago for at least one quarter during the current year (1874). One of the boys’ and one of the girls’ Scholarships shall be bestowed on a boy and a girl respectively from the High School or the Grammar Schools. Two of the Scholarships shall be conferred on boys and two on girls attending 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 simultaneously at the different schools 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. 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.

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

V. Euclid.- For Common School competitors Book I., prop. 1-15; for High and Grammar School competitors, the whole of Book I. (For Boys only.)

VI. Writing from Dictation.