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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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regulations, or by such regulation as any Board shall hereafter make in pursuance of these regulations.

3. The regulations to be made by any Board shall include provisions to the effect that a young person of either sex, to be eligible for appointment as a pupil-teacher, must be at least thirteen years of age, of good character, of good constitution, and free from any bodily or other defect or infirmity detrimental to usefulness or efficiency as a teacher, and must have passed the examination prescribed for the Fifth Standard.

4. The regulations to be made by any Board shall also deal with the matters following:—

The nature of the agreement with pupil-teachers, whether indenture of apprenticeship or otherwise.

The term of service, and the number of hours to be spent each day in teaching.

The rate of pay.

The number of hours which head-teachers shall devote to the instruction of pupil-teachers, and the remuneration for the same.

The programme of annual examinations.

5. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in these regulations or in the regulations made by any Education Board, a Board may appoint any matriculated student of any University who is of suitable character, of good health, and free from defect and infirmity detrimental to usefulness or efficiency as a teacher, to be a pupil-teacher with position and emolument equal to those of a third-year pupil-teacher, and under agreement to serve a second year as a fourth-year pupil-teacher, or under such agreement, with further agreement to serve a third year as a fifth-year pupil-teacher.

6. The Education Department will supply short examination-papers (each for the work of an hour and a half) on composition, drawing, elementary science, school method, arithmetic, grammar, geography, history, and the optional subjects, to Boards that adopt the following scheme of examination for pupil-teachers, and that hold the examination between the 15th and 20th of December:—

(a) For pupil-teachers of the first and second years. In one year—Parsing and analysis of simple sentences, and of easy complex sentences; and, in geography, the form and motions of the earth, the phenomena of day and night and of the seasons, the real significance of the polar circles, the tropics and the equator, and the most elementary parts of physical geography: and in the alternate year—reduction, and vulgar and decimal fractions; and history, so far as to show ability to give instruction in it to a third-standard class.

In any year this part of the examination will be the same for candidates of the first year as for those of the second year.

(b) For pupil-teachers of the third and fourth years. In one year—Parsing and analysis generally and the derivation of words; and general topography, not including a knowledge of obscure and unimportant places: and in the alternate year—arithmetic as a whole; and the history of England in simple outline.

In any year this part of the examination will be the same for candidates of the third year as for those of the fourth.

(c) For all pupil-teachers every year.—Reading, recitation, spelling, writing, and composition, together with one text-book of school method (four books in four years), one of the four branches of drawing (freehand, geometrical, model, perspective), and one of the four parts into which the elementary science examination for Class E is hereinafter divided.

In any year all the pupil-teachers will be examined together in the same text-book of school-method, the same branch of drawing, and the same part of the elementary science examination, and due notice will be given of the special work for the year.

The elementary science will be divided as follows:—Part I.: Fundamental ideas of matter and motion, conditions of matter, gravitation, mechanical powers. Part II.: Sound, light, heat, magnetism. Part III.: Electricity, chemistry. Part IV.: Physiology and health.

Candidates may be excused from drawing at this examination, if they attend the drawing examination for Class E every year for one branch of the subject.

(d) In any year any pupil-teacher may take up one of the subjects named as optional for Class D.