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District. Section. Block. Area.
Fairfax 12 III. ¼ acre.
" 7 VI. "
" 15 VIII. "
" 16 X. "
Tablehill 2 of 34 III. 45 acres
Hillend 2 of 22 III. 43 "
" 4 XI. 136 "
" 1 XIII. 74 "
Waitahuna West 20 IV. 117 "
" 4 V. 133½"
Akatore 1 VIII. 145½"
Clarendon 1 of 47 VI 3½ "
" 1 V 77 "

Maps showing the Sections, and the conditions of lease, may be seen at the Office of the Auctioneer, or at the Education Office.

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.

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

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

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

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

XI. Marks will be given for the reading of Prose and Poetry, and for Recitation from memory. Competitors will be expected to read and recite before the local Examiners, but those who stand very high in other subjects may be required to attend afterwards at Dunedin for Reading and Recitation.

4. A Scholarship will not be awarded 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, distinguish themselves greatly.

8. Arrangements will be made for holding the Examinations simultaneously at the several Schools of which intending candidates are pupils, and in order that sufficient time may be given for making the necessary preparations, teachers must forward to the Secretary of the Education Board, before the 15th November, 1874, the names of intending competitors belonging to their respective schools, together with a certificate of the age of every such scholar.

THE Monthly Meeting of the Education Board will be held at the Government Buildings, Dunedin, upon Monday, the 2nd November, 1874, at noon.

JOHN HISLOP, Secretary.

WANTED, for the Boys’ High School, Dunedin, a thoroughly Competent English Master. The salary will consist of £300 per annum, and one-twelfth of the School fees. The School is about to be re-organised; and it is expected the supplement from the fees will reach £100.

Applications, with testimonials, to be lodged before December 1st, 1874.

J. HISLOP, Secretary.

WANTED a Teacher for Orepuki School. Salary, Government allowance and School fees. Present number of scholars about 40, with prospect of a rapid increase. Applications, with testimonials, to be sent to me, on or before the 4th November, 1874.

JOHN L. CURRIE,
Secretary

WANTED for East Taieri School, a Pupil Teacher (Male or Female). Further information may be obtained from Mr. Waddell, teacher, who will receive applications until 1st November.

R. SOMERVILLE,
Clerk to East Taieri School Committee.

TEACHER Wanted for Te Shanka School. Salary £75 per annum, and school fees. Applications to be sent to the undersigned not later than the 13th November, 1874.

JAMES WILSON,
Te Shanka, Balclutha.