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.

EDUCATION RESERVES FOR LEASE.

THE Lease of the following Sections in Palmerston will be sold at the Court-house, Hawksbury, on the 21st December 1874, immediately after the sale of Crown Lands:—Section 1, block VI; section 15, block VII; section 1, block XI; section 4, block XVI; and section 16, block XXII.

For further particulars apply to

JOHN HISLOP, Secretary.

WANTED a competent Master for the District School of Limestone Plain, Southland. Salary, £75 and school fees. There are upwards of 30 pupils on the Roll. Applications with testimonials to be lodged with the undersigned on or before January 1st 1875.

W. A. LYON, Secretary.

WANTED a competent Master for Roxburgh Main District School. Salary £175 and a comfortable stone residence. The School, also of stone, is commodious and comfortable. It is an excellent opening for a thoroughly good teacher. Applications, with testimonials to be lodged on or before the 2nd January, 1875, with

GEORGE F. MACKAY, Secretary.

WANTED a Competent Teacher for Southbridge School, Tokomairiro. Salary, £75 with school fees and residence. Applications with testimonials will be received till the 4th January, 1875, by

HUGH BLAIKIE, Southbridge, Milon.

WANTED a qualified Schoolmaster for the Bannockburn School. Applications to be sent to the undersigned up to 28th December. Duties to commence on the 11th January, 1875. Salary £150 per annum and free residence.

CHARLES KOCH, Hon. Secretary.

FURTHER Applications for the office of Teacher (Male or Female) for Blackstone Hill School, Salary, Government subsidy of £60 per annum and School fees, with residence,—will be received by the Secretary until the 30th inst. Duties to commence on 11th January, 1875.

3 6s.

WILLIAM HAY, Clerk and Collector to Road Board.

TEACHER wanted for the Popotunoa School. Salary, £75 per annum and School fees and residence. Applications to be lodged with the undersigned before the 12th of January, 1875.

W. G. MURRAY, Clerk School Committee.

TEACHER wanted for the Kran’s Flat School. Salary, £75 per annum, with School fees and a good house and garden. Duties to commence, January 20th, 1875.

Applications with testimonials, to be lodged with the undersigned on or before 12th January.

HENRY HANAWAY, Clerk to School Committee.

CLOSING ROADS.

NOTICE is hereby given that objections have been lodged with me against the shutting up of certain road lines included in the Roads Diversion Ordinance 1874, situate in the Road Districts of Aparima, Blueskin, Half-Way Bush, Peninsula, Portobello, Shotover, and Otepopo, a special meeting of the Executive Council will be held in the Government Buildings, Dunedin, on Friday, the 18th day of December, at noon, for the purpose of deciding the said objections, when parties interested are invited to attend.

J. MACANDREW,
Superintendent of Otago.

HAWKSBURY ROAD DISTRICT.

NOTICE is hereby given, that an application has been made to His Honor the Superintendent to proclaim certain Roads, twelve in number, in the Hawksbury Road District, to be Main District Roads, and that His Honor will proceed to consider the application on Friday, the 18th of December next, at noon. Objections to the request of the Board being complied with must be lodged at the Provincial Secretary’s Office on or before that date.

ALEX. WILLIS, Under-Secretary.

Provincial Secretary’s Office,
Dunedin, 26th Nov. 1874.

PENINSULA ROAD BOARD.

I.—Tenders wanted for procuring, spreading, &c., 300 yards of Beach Gravel on the road near the residence of J. Macandrew, Esq., N.E. Harbour Subdivision. Information supplied by Messrs Hooper and Hunter, N.E. Harbour. Tenders sent in before 2nd January, 1875.

II.—Tenders wanted, for cutting the hill on Beach Road, opposite sections 50, 51, 52, 53, N.E. Harbour. Information supplied and tenders sent in as above.

III.—Tenders wanted for providing, spreading, &c., 120 yards best metal on Valley Road, Tomahawk Subdivision. Also 30 yards best metal on Small’s road, Tomahawk. All information supplied by any of the Tomahawk members. Tenders to be sent in before 2nd January, 1875.

IV.—Tenders wanted for clearing, forming, &c., 12 feet wide, the Main District Road, Tomahawk, from Mr. Fraser’s to Mr. T. Robertson’s. Information supplied and tenders sent in as above.

V.—Tenders wanted, for finishing the upper ten chains of Brown’s road, Anderson’s Bay, leading from Portobello road to Lagoon. Specifications, &c., with Mr. Thomas Somerville, Anderson’s Bay. Tenders sent in as above.

VI.—Notice is hereby Given, that the General Rate of One Shilling per £ on the whole district, and the special rate of One Shilling per £ on the N.E. Harbour and Tomahawk Subdivisions, are now due, and must be paid before the 1st January, 1875, after which all unpaid rates will be handed over to the Board’s solicitor for collection.

For the convenience of ratepayers I will attend at Anderson’s Bay Schoolhouse, on Saturday, 19th instant, from 10 a.m. till noon; and at Tomahawk Schoolhouse, on 19th instant, from 1 till 4 p.m.; and at N.E. Harbour, Mr. C. Hunter’s, on Monday, 21st instant, from 5 till 7 p.m.

WILLIAM HAY, Clerk and Collector to Road Board.

Dec. 7th, 1874.

KAIKORAI ROAD DISTRICT.

RATEPAYERS are hereby notified that a statement of the proposed Rates can be inspected for ten days, as follows:—

Abbotsford Subdivision, at Mr. McCracken’s.
Aibotshill Subdivision, at Collins’s Volunteer Club.

All Objections to the rate must be lodged with the Clerk, within 30 days from the date of this notice.

2 7s. 6d

JAMES THOMSON, Clerk.

TAIERI ROAD BOARD.

NOTICE

THE Taieri Road Board intend to levy general rates for year 1874-75 on all rateable property within the District, as follows, viz.:—

East Taieri Subdivision—Sixpence per £.
Owhiro Subdivision—One Shilling per £.
Breadalbane Subdivision—Sixpence per £.

The Rate Book lies at the Clerk’s house, in Mosgiel, where objections, if any, must be lodged in writing within 30 days from date hereof.

Objections will be heard at a Special Meeting of the Board, at Riccarton, on the second Saturday in January, 1875, at 3 o’clock p.m.

A. LEES, Clerk to the Board.

Mosgiel, 25th Nov. 1874.

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