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efficiency, the Inspector will use the number 2 as a substitute for the lowest, and the number 10 as a substitute for the highest term in a series of terms beginning with “tolerable,” and ending with “excellent;” and an Inspector may put 0 in place of a number to indicate that he considers the candidate to be incompetent. Marks for efficiency can be given only by the Inspector in whose district the teacher is at work, except that the Inspector-General of Schools may assign marks for efficiency not exceeding four to teachers whose practical skill is sufficiently attested by certificates granted by authorities acting outside of the Colony of New Zealand, and may also assign marks to teachers in schools subject to his inspection, and not under the control of any Education Board. On the thirtieth day of June in each year teachers who by length of service or upon a more favourable judgment expressed by the Inspector before the thirty-first day of May, shall have become entitled to promotion to a higher division, shall receive such promotion.

20. A candidate who does not fall far short of the requirements for a certificate, may, if of the age of twenty-one years and qualified by such experience as is required by Regulation 5 in the case of a candidate for a certificate, receive from the Minister of Education a license to teach, which license shall be in force for two years only from the date at which it is issued, but may, at the discretion of the Minister, be renewed from time to time, and while it is in force shall have the force of a certificate.

21. Provisional certificates granted under any regulation hereby repealed shall continue in force under these regulations.

22. The Minister of Education may, on application being made to him by any Education Board, grant to any person who shall have served as pupil-teacher under such Board for a term of three years or more, and who shall have passed the final examination of the pupil-teachers’ course as prescribed by such Board, a district license tenable for two years from the date at which the aforesaid final examination was passed, and during such two years such district license shall, within the education district of the Board by which such application shall have been made, have the force of a certificate granted under “The Education Act, 1877.”

23. At any examination of candidates for teachers’ certificates, pupil-teachers in the service of any Education Board may present themselves for examination in drawing. Of four divisions of the subject—viz., (1) freehand, (2) geometrical, (3) perspective, and (4) model drawing, they may take up any one or more at one examination, or at successive examinations, and in any order; and their success in one or more of the four divisions will render them so far exempt from examination in drawing when they become candidates for certificates.

24. At every annual examination three prizes, of £5, £3, and £1 respectively, will be awarded in order of merit to the three candidates who are most highly commended by the examiner in drawing. The prizes will be awarded without regard to the classes for which the winners are candidates.

25. At every examination in elementary experimental science for Class D, three prizes, of £5, £3, and £1 respectively, will be awarded in order of merit to the three most proficient candidates, and teachers who hold certificates of Class E, or who have passed the examination for that class, may compete for these prizes on condition of giving notice before the thirty-first day of October, and without paying a fee.

26. With the report of every examination for Classes D and E lists will be published containing the names of candidates who pass in any subject well enough to deserve special mention.

27. In the month of June, in each year, a list of teachers holding certificates and licenses shall be issued by the Minister of Education, and such list shall set forth, in every case of promotion to a higher class or division, the reason of such promotion; and after the publication of such list every teacher who has been so promoted shall be entitled, upon making due application to the Minister, to have a record of his promotion indorsed upon his certificate.

28. The Minister of Education shall have power to cancel any certificate or license to teach if the holder of such certificate or license shall at at any time be proved guilty of immoral conduct, or gross misbehaviour, within the meaning of “The Education Act, 1877,” or of any subsequent Act.

VII.—PUPIL-TEACHERS.

1. Subject to the provisions of these regulations, the Board of each education district shall make its own regulations for the employment, maintenance, education, and examination of pupil-teachers, and shall submit such regulations to the Minister of Education, and such regulations shall, upon receiving his approval, come into operation, and shall not be altered or amended without his authority.

2. Any agreement already entered into between any Board and any pupil-teacher, and in force at the date hereof, shall not be affected by these