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SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1883.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1883.

Regulations and Forms under “The Industrial Schools Act, 1882.”

JAMES PRENDERGAST,
Administrator of the Government.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of January, 1883.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE GOVERNMENT IN COUNCIL.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Industrial Schools Act, 1882,” His Excellency the Administrator of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the colony, doth make the following regulations, and doth prescribe the following forms, numbered one to fourteen, each inclusive, as those to be used for the matters to which they severally relate.

REGULATIONS FOR THE BOARDING-OUT OF CHILDREN.

1. For the purpose of these regulations, “boarding-out” shall mean the placing of industrial school children with foster-parents, and “local visitor” shall mean a lady whose name is registered in the office of the Education Department as undertaking to maintain a regular supervision of some child or children boarded out.

2. Unless in special circumstances, of which the Minister shall be the judge, every child boarded out shall be visited once a month by one or more of the local visitors.

3. In each of the larger centres of population the Minister may appoint one of the local visitors to be the official correspondent between the local visitors and the Education Department, and such correspondent shall keep a list of boarded-out children within her district, shall see that each child is visited once a month, and shall receive and transmit to the Education Department the monthly reports of the local visitors.

4. In districts in which there is no official correspondent the local visitors shall correspond directly with the department, and make to the department a monthly report on the case of each child boarded out.

5. Every monthly report shall be made on a printed form provided for the purpose, and shall give particulars as to the health, clothing, cleanliness, and school attendance of the child to whom it relates, and as to any reasonable complaints made by the child or the foster-parents.

6. In any case in which it becomes necessary to act with promptitude in sending a child back to its school, or removing a child from one home to another, the official correspondent, if there be one in the district, or the local visitor specially responsible for the child, if there be no official correspondent, will be at liberty to act on her own judgment of the necessity of the case, but will be expected to make a special report at once to the department.

7. Proposals for the boarding-out of a child shall be made in a form provided for the purpose, wherein the manager of the school shall enter a description of the child, and the official correspondent, or one of the local visitors, if there be no official correspondent for the district, shall enter a description of the proposed foster-parent and of the circumstances of the proposed home.

8. Every boarded-out child of school age must attend a school, and must also attend the same place of worship as the family in which it is placed.

9. Clothing will be supplied from the school when a child is first boarded out, and, as the articles so supplied are worn out, the foster-parent shall replace them with others, so that the child shall always have its own clothing to the full extent of the original supply.

10. In case of illness or accident happening to a boarded-out child, or in case of the death or absconding of the child, the foster-parent must at once report the matter to the local visitor who regularly visits the child.

11. Foster-parents may at any time return a child to the school on giving a fortnight’s notice to the local visitors, but may not, while they keep the child, change their residence without giving a week’s notice to the local visitors, nor remove out of one visiting district into another without the sanction of the Minister, obtained through the local visitors.

12. The payment to be made for each child boarded out shall be stated in the Third Schedule indorsed on the form of license. The extreme rate of 10s. a week will be paid in the case only of children under twelve months old, or for some reason requiring very special care. The payment will be made monthly through the local visitors, who will take the foster-parents’ receipts on a form provided for the purpose.

13. Foster-parents must always allow reasonable facilities to the local visitors, or to any person appointed for the purpose by the Government, for ascertaining the condition of boarded-out children.

14. Every boarded-out child must be treated by the foster-parent with all the care and kindness suited to the child’s tender age.

15. These regulations shall be indorsed as the First Schedule on the form of license.

REGULATIONS FOR PLACING INMATES OUT AT SERVICE.

1. The Minister may, if he please, direct that any inmate placed out at service shall be visited under the regulations for the boarding-out of children.