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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 43

tion Songs; Gill’s Movement Plays, and Calisthenic Song Book; Philips’s Action Songs; Stimpson’s Singing Class Book.
2. The Minister may, on the application of the Education Board of any district, grant authority for the use in such district of any book not contained in the foregoing list.

VI.—TEACHERS’ CERTIFICATES.

1. There shall be five classes of certificates, distinguished (from the highest to the lowest) by the letters A, B, C, D, E.
2. In each class there shall be five divisions, distinguished (from the highest to the lowest) by the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
3. The class for which a certificate is granted shall depend upon attainments in learning as proved by examination; the division in the class upon experience and practical skill in the art of teaching and of school management.
4. The relative values of certificates shall depend in equal degree upon attainments in learning and upon practical skill, as indicated in the subjoined scale, in which the letter and number denoting any one certificate stand opposite to the letter and number which in any other column denote a certificate of equal value.

SCALE OF COMPARATIVE VALUES.

| A1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1st Rank. |
| A2 | B1 | ... | ... | ... | 2nd " |
| A3 | B2 | C1 | ... | ... | 3rd " |
| A4 | B3 | C2 | D1 | ... | 4th " |
| A5 | B4 | C3 | D2 | E1 | 5th " |
| | B5 | C4 | D3 | E2 | 6th " |
| | | C5 | D4 | E3 | 7th " |
| | | | D5 | E4 | 8th " |
| | | | | E5 | 9th " |

5. A certificate shall not be granted to any candidate who has not given proof of having been regularly engaged in teaching for at least two years in a public school or schools, or in some school or schools subject to Government inspection, in New Zealand or elsewhere; provided that the Minister of Education may estimate a period spent in teaching in other schools than those described in this regulation as equal to a shorter period of service in a public school; and that a period spent in a normal school by a student in training shall be regarded as equivalent to an equal time spent in teaching.
6. A certificate shall not be granted to any candidate until an Inspector of Schools has testified to the candidate’s practical efficiency, by awarding at least two marks, according to the scale of marks defined in Regulation 19.
7. A certificate granted to a candidate under the age of twenty-one years shall be a provisional certificate, which may be exchanged for an ordinary certificate when the candidate has reached the age of twenty-one.
8. A certificate shall not be granted to any person who does not produce sufficient evidence of good moral character and of freedom from all such physical defects as are incompatible with efficiency in teaching, and in the management of a school, nor shall any person be admitted to examination under these regulations without producing such evidence.
9. A certificate shall not be granted except after examination held in accordance with these regulations, or after proof of the passing of an equivalent examination held by some sufficient public authority; provided that a partially equivalent examination may be recognised pro tanto, and supplemented by such further examination as the Minister of Education may order, and that the Minister shall be the judge of the value to be assigned to examinations proposed for acceptance as equivalent or partially equivalent.
10. A candidate who has served four years as a pupil-teacher, or has been a student in a teachers’ training-college for one year, may be examined without regard to age; but, with this exception, every candidate for examination must give evidence of having reached the age of nineteen years, and, with the same exception, every candidate relying on an equivalent examination must give evidence of having reached the age of nineteen years before the time of such examination.
11. The examination for Class E shall include the following subjects:—
    Reading, writing, spelling, English grammar and composition (including punctuation), arithmetic, geography, English history,