569

MEMORANDUM OF GOVERNMENT LAND SALES, &c.

SALE OF LAND IN HERRIOT HUNDRED POSTPONED.

Land Department, Dunedin, November, 1875. J. T. THOMSON, Chief Commissioner.

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 on Monday, the 10th day of January, 1876, at 7 o\'clock p.m., at the following-mentioned places respectively, viz :—

At Dunedin in the Normal School, Moray Place.
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, in the following mentioned districts, viz :—Port Chalmers, Portobello, North-East Harbor, Anderson\'s Bay, North-East Valley, Wakari, Kaikorai, Mornington, Caversham, Green Island, East Taieri, Saddle Hill, North Taieri, Lake Waipori, Waihola, Balclutha, Warepa, Kaihiku, Blueskin, Waikouaiti, Hampden, Otepopo, Oamaru, Lawrence, Queenstown, Waihola Gorge, West Taieri, Maungatua, Clyde, Kaitangata, Switzers, Teviot, Waipori, Invercargill, Long Bush, Wallace-town, Campbelltown, Woodlands, Waianiva, Flint\'s Bush, Myross Bush, Winton, Gummie\'s Bush, One Tree Point, Riverton, Waikivi, Outram, Kensington, Forbury, Mosgiel, Wairuna, Clinton, and Havelock.

The householders, in the following-mentioned localities respectively, in which schools have been established or authorised, are advised to meet in the school-house or buildings used as a school-house, 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, Macraes, Stoney Creek, Tapanui, Upper Harbor West, Lower Harbor, Whare Flat, Blacks, Te Houka, Waiwera, Merton, Waiacka, Mimihau, Hyde, Wangoloa, Lower Shotover, Moeraki, Macetown, Glenorchy, South Akatore, South Bridge, Cardrona, Kakanui, Sawyer\'s Bay, Highcliffe, Tuapeka Mouth, Thompson\'s (Drybread and Tinkers) Taturau, Taieri Ferry, Greytown, Tuakito, Albertown (Wanaka), Sandymount, Mount Cargill, Nokomai, Papakaio, Pukeuri, Kuri Bush, Adam\'s Flat, Shag Valley, Clarke\'s Flat, Upper Kyeburn, Lower Kyeburn, Inch Valley, Purakanui, Evan\'s Flat, Dunkeld (Beaumont), Walton, Manaka Creek, Forest Hill, Mabel Bush, Grove Bush, Groper\'s Bush, Limestone Plains, Orepuki, Oreti, Wild Bush, Welshman\'s, Millar\'s Flat, Owake Flat, Clifton, Ahuriri Flat, Fortrose, Steward\'s Island, Ida Valley, Maheno, Roslin Bush, Waikaia, and Hillend.

By order of the Education Board,
JOHN HISLOP,
Secretary.
Dunedin, November 23rd, 1875.

"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 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."

REGULATIONS OF OTAGO NORMAL SCHOOL.

I. The entrance examination shall be that prescribed for pupil teachers of the First Class (Regulations, Sept. 15th, 1874); and all candidates for training shall pass it previous to entrance as students.
II. Candidates for training shall consist of the following classes :—