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(h.) The objects to be obtained by tillage. Improvement
in the mechanical condition. Importance of a good seed-bed.
Chemical changes induced by exposure to the air. Action of
bacteria, &c., in the soil. Fallows. Tillage as partly re-
placing manure. Water in the soil. Capillary action in the
soil. Drainage. Possible loss of plant-food in drainage
water. Differences in modes of cultivation for light and
heavy soils. Plant-food in the soil. Exhaustion of the soil.
Principle of application of manures. Principle of rotation
of crops. Improvement of the soil.

Standard VI.—(i.) Object of manuring. General and
special manures. Farmyard manure, its composition and
value; its liability to ferment; management to prevent loss
of value. Vegetable and animal refuse as manures. Green
manuring. Plant-food most frequently wanting in soils.
Manures supplying particular kinds of plant-food. Guanos.
Special manures supplying nitrogen. Bone manures. Super-
phosphate and other mineral manures. Action of lime on
the soil.

(j.) The characteristics of the commoner crops—cereals,
fodder-crops, root-crops. Habit of growth of a plant. Dis-
tribution of roots. Principle of adaptation of manures to
crops.

(k.) Importance of good seed. Propagation of plants by
cuttings, tubers, bulbs, &c. Objects of grafting and pruning.
Insect-pests. Insect changes, as illustrated by the life-
history of common insects. Nature of parasitic fungi.

In schools in which it is not practicable to have the work
of the three standards done separately: Part I. may be taken
as the work of one year; Part II. may be taken as the work
of another year, together with so much of Part I. as is
necessary to render Part II. intelligible to beginners; and
Part III., with the most necessary portions of Part I., as the
work of a third year.

22. The object-lessons and lessons on natural history,
    manufactures, and common things, for Standards I., II., and
    III., are intended as an introduction to the elementary-
    science lessons for the higher standards. Classes S1 and S2,
    or S1, S2, and S3, may be taught and examined together in
    these subjects if the programme of lessons is varied from
    year to year, so that on the whole the work prescribed for
    two or three classes shall be done in two or three years, as
    the case may be; or S3 may be instructed in elementary
    science with any higher class, and even S1 and S2 may,
    instead of receiving lessons on objects, &c., be instructed in
    the elementary science prescribed for the higher standards
    if the instruction in elementary science is oral, illustrative,
    and experimental, and is, in the teacher's judgment, adapted
    to the capacity of the lower classes, and fitted to promote the
    development of their faculties.

23. Any order of instruction in singing other than that
    prescribed in the standards will be recognised as of equiva-
    lent value if the result be good singing, sufficient theoretical
    knowledge, and careful training of the lower classes as well
    as the higher.

24. All the girls in any public school in which there is a
    mistress or assistant mistress shall learn needlework, and the
    Inspector shall judge all other work done by the girls more
    leniently than that done by the boys in such a degree as
    would be implied in reducing by 10 per cent. the minimum
    marks required for any examination pass. To secure full
    approval the needlework of the several classes must be ac-
    cording to the following programme:—

S1. Threading needles and hemming. (Illustration of
work: Strips of calico or a plain pocket-handkerchief.)

S2. The foregoing, and felling, and fixing a hem. (Illus-
tration: A child's pinafore.)

S3. The foregoing and stitching, sewing on strings, and
fixing all work up to this stage. (A pillow-case, or woman's
plain shift, without bands or gathers.)

S4. The foregoing and button-holing, sewing on buttons,
stroking, setting in gathers, plain darning and fixing. (A
plain day- or night-shirt.)

S5. The foregoing, and whipping, a tuck run, sewing on
frill, and gathering. (A night-dress with frills.)

S6. Cutting out any plain garment and fixing it for a
junior class; darning stockings (fine and coarse) in worsted
or cotton; grafting; darning fine linen or calico; patching
the same; darning and patching fine diaper.

If knitting is learnt it shall be in the following order: A
strip of plain knitting; knitted muffs, ribbed; a plain-
knitted child's sock; a long-ribbed stocking.

25. 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.

26. Standard IV. as defined in these regulations shall be
    the standard of education prescribed under "The Education
    Act, 1877," section 90, subsection (4).

27. The following rules for determining passes in spelling,
    dictation, and arithmetic are prescribed on the recommenda-
    tion of the Inspectors:—

For spelling and dictation the tests will be taken from the
class reading-books. Standards I. and II.: Two-thirds of
the words set will suffice for pass. Standard III.: Not more
than three errors will be allowed in five lines and five selected
words. Standard IV.: Not more than three errors will be
allowed in eight lines. Standards V. and VI.: Not more
than two errors will be allowed in eight lines.

In arithmetic, for Standards III., IV., V., and VI., five
questions will be set for each class.

In questions that are not purely mechanical half-marks
will be allowed for correctness of method. Three questions
right will pass for boys and two and a half for girls.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Amending Boundaries of Opaheke Road District, County
of Manukau.

GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this nineteenth
day of June, 1894.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section twenty of "The Counties Act,
1886" (hereinafter termed "the said Act"), it is
provided that all the powers of a County Council relating to
the alteration of the boundaries of any road or town districts
within a county, or of amalgamating such districts, or of
merging any of them into the county, and all other powers
in relation to such districts exercisable by the Council by
special order or on petition, may be exercised by the
Governor in Council in respect of any of the counties in
which the said Act is suspended: And whereas the said
Act is suspended in the County of Manukau: And whereas
in pursuance of "The Road Boards Act, 1882," and "The
Road Boards Act 1882 Amendment Act, 1883," a petition has
been presented to His Excellency the Governor praying him
to alter the boundaries of the Opaheke Road District:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
powers and authorities vested in him by the said Act, and
of all other powers and authorities enabling him in this
behalf, and acting by and with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order
and declare that from and after the sixth day of July, one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, the boundaries of
the said district as at present constituted shall cease to be
the boundaries of the said district; and that the bound-
aries of the said district shall be those which are specified
in the Schedule hereto; and also that the Road Board of
the said district shall be dissolved upon the said sixth day of
July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four; and that
the Road Board of the said district as altered by this Order
in Council shall consist of five members; and, further, that
the first election of members of the new Board shall be
conducted in accordance with "The Regulation of Local
Elections Act, 1876": and doth, by and with the advice
aforesaid, further appoint John Thomas Stembridge to be
the Clerk and the Returning Officer to conduct the first elec-
tions of the Road Board of the Opaheke Road District; and
doth appoint Saturday, the seventh day of July, one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-four, to be the day for holding
such first elections; and that the first meeting of the new
Board of the said Opaheke Road District shall be held at the
Valley School, Ararimu Schoolhouse, on Saturday, the four-
teenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-
four, at one o'clock in the afternoon.

SCHEDULE.

THE OPAHEKE ROAD DISTRICT.—AMENDED BOUNDARIES.
ALL that area in the Auckland Land District bounded
towards the north and north-west by the Opaheke North
and Hunua Road Districts from the middle of the Great
South Road to the westernmost corner of Section No. 4 of
the Parish of Otah, Opaheke Survey District; thence by the
western and northern boundaries of Section No. 70 of that
parish to its north-eastern angle; towards the east generally
by a right line to the northernmost angle of Section No. 33;
thence by part of the north-eastern boundary of Section
No. 33, the northern and eastern boundaries of Section
No. 72, the eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 71 and 69,
the eastern and southern boundaries of No. 81A and the
eastern boundaries of Sections Nos. 12 and 13, to the south-
eastern angle of the last-named section; towards the south
generally by the southern boundary-line of that section,
across a road 100 links wide, by the western side of the road
which forms the western boundaries of Sections Nos. 13 and