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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 24

Increasing the Holding-area of Land to Settlers in the Rakaunui Village Settlement, Wellington.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of February, 1901.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS by an Order in Council issued on the twenty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, under the authority of section one hundred and sixty-nine of “The Land Act, 1892,” fixing the terms and conditions upon which the land in the Rakaunui Village Settlement should be disposed of, it was provided that no lessee should hold more than one allotment:

And whereas by an Order in Council of the thirteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred, it was provided that any settler in the said Rakaunui Village Settlement could acquire two allotments therein:

And whereas it is expedient to allow one person to hold more than two allotments in the said Rakaunui Village Settlement, provided that the total area acquired does not exceed fifty acres in extent:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance of all powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, doth hereby revoke the Order in Council of the thirteenth day of November, one thousand nine hundred, aforesaid, and doth declare that on and after the date hereof any settler in the Rakaunui Village Settlement may apply for and acquire more than one allotment in the said village settlement, provided that the total area does not exceed fifty acres in extent. And it is hereby further declared that all the provisions of the Order in Council of the twenty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, aforesaid, shall apply, except as regards the number of allotments which may be held, to the Rakaunui Village Settlement.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

“The Education Act, 1877.”—Attendance Registers and Returns.

RANFURLY, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of February, 1901.

Present:
His Excellency the Governor in Council.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Education Act, 1877,” His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the colony, doth hereby cancel the regulations dated the fifth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, and the tenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, made by Order in Council under the authority of the said Act, and relating to attendance registers and returns; and doth cancel also the third, fourth, and sixth sections of regulations relating to attendance registers and returns, made under the same authority on the fifth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven; and in lieu thereof doth make the regulation hereto annexed; and with the like advice and consent His Excellency doth hereby prescribe that this Order shall come into force on the date of the first publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATION.

3. The attendance of a child at morning school shall be reckoned as one attendance, and the attendance of a child at afternoon school shall be reckoned as one attendance, and a school open in the morning and open in the afternoon shall be deemed to have been open twice. The school shall be held to be open any morning or afternoon if one child be present before the first half-hour of the ordinary school time has passed. The average daily attendance for any period shall be ascertained by first throwing out of account every morning and every afternoon on which the attendances have numbered less than one-half of the number of pupils belonging at the time to the school, and by throwing out of account the attendances also of every such morning and such afternoon; and then by dividing the remaining number of attendances by the remaining number of half-days.

4. On the day on which the head-teacher of a school first knows that a pupil has been definitely removed from the school such head-teacher shall record the removal in the admission register and in the register of daily attendance.

He shall record also that a pupil has left the school when such pupil has been absent for any period of sixty-five consecutive school-days. Such pupils shall forthwith be considered as ceasing to belong to the school, and in any computation of average attendance for any period thereafter their names shall not be taken into account in any way.

6. The form of quarterly returns of attendance from each school shall be as follows:—

Return of Attendance for Quarter ending , 19 .
(N.B.—This return should be sent in to the Board within five days after the end of the quarter.)

…………… School.

I. How many scholars were returned as belonging to the school at the end of last quarter? [Line VII. of last return] ..
II. How many of these have left, not having attended at all this quarter? ..
III. What, then, was the number really belonging to the school at beginning of quarter? [Subtract II. from I.] ..
IV. How many have been admitted during the quarter? ..
V. How many, therefore, have belonged to the school this quarter? [Add III. and IV.] ..
VI. How many of these (in V.) left before the end of the quarter? ..
VII. What, then, is the number now belonging? [Subtract VI. from V.] ..
VIII. What is the average weekly number on the roll during the quarter? ..
IX. How many times has the school been open this quarter (mornings and afternoons to be reckoned separately)? ..
X. On how many half-days has the attendance been less than one-half of the number on the roll for the time being? ..
XI. What is the number of attendances on these half-days? ..
XII. On how many half-days has the attendance been at least one-half of the number on the roll for the time being? ..
XIII. What is the number of attendances on these half-days? ..
XIV. What is the average attendance? [Divide XIII. by XII.] ..