NOTICE

Applications having been received to purchase sections 23 and 50 (originally north part of 12), Block II, Tuapeka West, and section 64, block III, Glenkenich District, it is hereby notified that objections to the issue of certificates for the occupation thereof on deferred payment, must be notified at least twenty-four hours before the 11th day of December next, and should no objections be made or sustained, the sections will be granted to the applicants.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.
Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 24th Nov. 1874.

NOTICE is hereby given that Section 22, Block 6, Table Hill District, containing 400 acres, will be offered for sale by public auction at the Survey Office, Lawrence, on Tuesday, the 2nd day of February next, at noon, at the upset price of £1 per acre.

NOTICE is hereby given that Sections 12 and 14, Block 4, Beaumont District, and Sections 5, 6, 7, 19, 21, and 22, Block 5, Tuapeka West District, will be offered for sale by public auction at the Survey Office, Lawrence, on Tuesday, the 9th day of February next, at noon, at the upset price of £1 per acre.

NOTICE is hereby given that Sections 40, 41, and 42, Block 1, Earnslaw District, will be offered for sale by public auction at the Survey Office, Queenstown, on Tuesday, the 9th day of February next, at noon, at the upset price of £1 per acre.

J. T. THOMSON,
Chief Commissioner.
Waste Land Board Office,
Dunedin, 8th December, 1874.

EDUCATION MEETINGS

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 11th day of January, 1875, at seven o’clock p.m., at the following-mentioned places respectively, viz.:

At Dunedin, in the Athenaeum Hall.
At Tokomairiro, in the Grammar School, Milton.
At Oamaru, in the Grammar School.
At Invercargill, in the Grammar School.

And in the respective School-houses, or buildings used as School-houses, of their respective districts on the aforesaid Monday, the 12th day of January, 1875, at 7 o’clock p.m., for the purpose of electing School Committees for the ensuing year, viz.:

• Moa Flat, Hamilton, Sowburn, St. Bathans, Blue Spur, Wetherstones, Otakia, Popotunoa, Taieri Beach, Awamoko, Maerewhenua, Hillend, Tapanui, Upper Harbour West, Lower Harbour, Waiare Flat, Blacks, Te Houka, Waiwera, Merton, Waikaia, Mimibau, Hyde, Wangaloa, Lower Shotover, Moeraki, Macetown, Glenore, South Akatore, South Bridge, Cardrona, Kakanui, Sawyers Bay, Highcliff, Tuapeka Mouth, Thompson’s (Drybread and Tinkers), Tuturau, Taieri Ferry, Greytown, Tuapeka, Waikouaiti, Kuri Bush, Oamaru, Waiareka, Pukeuri, Kuri Bush, Adam’s Flat, Shag Valley, Clarke’s Flat, Upper Kyeburn, Lower Kyeburn, Inch Valley, Purakanui, Evan’s Flat, Dunkeld (Beaumont), Waiton, Manuka Creek, Forest Hill, Mabel Bush, Grove Bush, Gropers’s Bush, Limestone Plains, Orepuki, Oreti, Wild Bush, Welshman’s, Millers’s Flat, Owaka Flat, Clifton, Ahuriri Flat, Kingston, Kawarau Gorge, Bannockburn, Blackstone Hill, Maerewhenua, Eden-dale, Mataura Bridge, Brighton, Beaconsfield Coast, Oteramika, Tuapeka Flat, Fortrose, Stewart’s Island, Ida Valley, and Maheno.

By order of the Education Board,
JOHN HISLOP,
Secretary.
Dunedin, November 26th, 1874.

"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."

TEACHER WANTED

TEACHER wanted for the Waikivi School, near Invercargill. Salary not less than £200 per annum, with a good house and other conveniences. Applications, with testimonials, to be lodged with the undersigned, on or before the 12th December, 1874.

THOMAS PERKINS, Chairman,
Eldon Chambers, Invercargill.

EXAMINATION OF PUPIL TEACHERS

EXAMINATIONS of Pupil Teachers, and of Candidates for employment as such, will be held at the Education Office, Dunedin, and at the Schoolhouses of Invercargill, Oamaru, Milton, and Queenstown, upon the 21st and 22nd of December, 1874, at half-past 9 o’clock a.m. on each day. Intending candidates must send notice through their teachers before the 15th December.

JOHN HISLOP,
Secretary.

WANTED

WANTED a competent Master for the District School of Limestone Plain, Southland. Salary,