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23. In case of any misunderstanding arising as to the meaning of any
    part of these regulations, the Minister of Education may declare what is
    to be taken as the meaning, and his interpretation shall be binding upon
    all persons to whom it is communicated, and shall, if declared by publica-
    tion in the New Zealand Gazette, have equal force with these regulations.
24. Standard IV. as defined in these regulations shall be the standard
    of education prescribed under “The Education Act, 1877,” section 90,
    subsection (4).

V.—SCHOOL BOOKS.

1. Subject to such restrictions as the Education Board of any district
   may impose, any books described in the following list may be used in any
   public school:—

Reading.—Nelson’s Royal Readers and Sequels; Chambers’s English
Readers and Graduated Readers; Macmillan’s Readers, Globe Readers,
and Shorter Globe Readers; Blackie’s Graded Readers; Longman’s New
Readers; Palgrave’s Children’s Treasury of English Song (Macmillan);
Blackwood’s School Recitation Books; Yonge’s Book of Golden Deeds
(Macmillan); Richardson’s Temperance Lesson Book; First Steps to
Temperance (National Temperance Publication Dépôt, London); Pope’s
Native School Reader (Government Printer).

Writing.—Vere Foster’s, Darnell’s, and Marcus Ward’s Copy Books,
and the Public School Copy Books.

Arithmetic.—Colenso’s Shilling Arithmetic, School Arithmetic, and
Examples; Chambers’s Arithmetic, and Examples; Nelson’s Royal Series;
Barnard Smith’s Shilling Arithmetic, and School Arithmetic; Hamblin
Smith’s Arithmetic; Blackie’s Comprehensive Arithmetic; Goyen’s
Complete Arithmetic for Standard III., Problems for Standard III., and
Exercises in Compound Rules (Wise, Dunedin); Lee’s Arithmetic for
Standard I. (Hughes, Wellington).

Grammar and Composition.—Abbott’s How to Tell the Parts of Speech,
and How to Write Clearly; Allen and Cornwell’s English Grammar, and
Grammar for Beginners; Bain’s Smaller Grammar; Chambers’s Intro-
duction to Composition; Hall’s Primary Grammar; Mason’s Grammars;
Meiklejohn’s Standard Grammar (Chambers); Morell’s English Gram-
mar; Morris’s Primer (Macmillan); Morrison’s English Grammar,
Initiatory Grammar, and First Book of Composition; Nichols’ Composi-
tion Primer (Macmillan); Park’s Composition (Colls and Culling,
Dunedin); Smith and Hall’s English Grammar; Trotter’s English Gram-
mar (Collins).

Geography.—Marcus Ward’s Child’s Geography; Blakiston’s
Glimpses of the Globe (Griffith and Farran); Longman’s School Geo-
graphy (by G. C. Chisholm); Nelson’s, Blackie’s, Blackwood’s, and Long-
man’s Geographical Readers; Mackay’s Outlines, and Intermediate
Geography, and Elements; Cornwell’s School Geography, and Geography
for Beginners; Petrie’s First Geography, and New Zealand Geography
(Wise, Dunedin); Mason’s New Zealand and Oceania (Upton, Auck-
land); Bowden’s New Zealand Geographies; Patterson’s New Zealand
and Australia (Whitcombe and Tombs, Christchurch); Hill’s Geography
for New Zealand Standards II., III., IV. (Whitcombe and Tombs);
Proctor’s Elementary Physical Geography (1s. 6d., Longman); Hughes’s
Geographies.

History, &c.—Miss Bourke’s Little History of New Zealand (Robertson,
Melbourne); Wallace’s Manual of New Zealand History (J. H. Wallace,
Junr., Wellington); Chambers’s Historical Readers; Nelson’s Pictures of
English History; Nelson’s “The Royal Story Book of English History”;
Blackwood’s Historical Readers, and Short Stories; Smith’s Primary
History; Petrie’s History for Standard III.; Gardiner’s Outline of Eng-
lish History; the Shilling History of England (introductory to
“Epochs”); Collier’s History of the British Empire; Edith Thomson’s
History of England; Mrs. Fawcett’s Lessons in Political Economy, and
Tales in Political Economy; Pope’s “The State ” (Government Printer);
National Society’s Political Economy Reading Book.

Science and Domestic Economy.—Berners’s First Lessons on Health;
Buckton’s Health in the House; Huxley’s Physiography; Johnston’s
Catechism of Agricultural Chemistry; Tanner’s Alphabet of Agriculture,
and First Principles, and Further Steps (Macmillan); Nelson’s Science of
Home Life (3 volumes in “Royal” Series); Questions and Answers upon
Ambulance Work (Baillière and Co., London).

Drawing.—The Colonial Drawing Book (Simpson, Christchurch),
issued by authority; “Drawing Book for Standard I,” and “Drawing
Book for Standard II” (Lyon and Blair, Wellington), by authority;
Hutton’s New Zealand Drawing Book (Horsburgh, Dunedin); Seager’s
Art Drawing Books (Whitcombe and Tombs, Christchurch).

Singing.—Crampton’s 24 School Songs; Curwen’s Standard Course, and
Blackbird, and his other Tonic Sol-fa publications; Child’s Garland of Ac-