[1st March, 1881.]

The books entitled "A Class-book and Method for teaching Geography and History to the Second and Third Standards" (Robertson, Melbourne); "Geography of New Zealand and Oceania," by Rev. Peter Mason, B.A. (Upton and Co., Auckland); and "A First Geography for the Schools of New Zealand and the Australian Colonies," by D. Petrie, M.A. (Henry Wise and Co., Dunedin), may be used in any public school as if they had been described and included in the list of works set forth in the Order in Council dated the twenty-fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.