220 THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. [No. 9

The instruction in a foreign language must include in every case a reasonable amount of continuous reading-matter, and in the case of a living language should be directed to the practical end of giving the pupils the power of speaking the language.
4. Mathematics.
5. Book-keeping, shorthand, typewriting, commercial and actuarial arithmetic, commercial law, political economy, economics of industry, commercial history, industrial history, commercial geography—when claims cannot be made for these subjects under the head of technical instruction.
6. Any natural, physical, or chemical science, treated practically, although not fulfilling the conditions laid down for such science as a branch of technical instruction. Not less than one-third of the time must, however, be devoted to practical work either as class demonstration or as individual work.
7. English history, general history, constitutional history.
8. Elocution.
9. (a) Linear drawing by aid of instruments; (b) freehand outline drawing of rigid forms from flat examples; (c) freehand outline drawing from the “round.”
Except in the case of subjects marked with an asterisk, no payment will be made for more than two hours in any one week. In the case of subjects marked with an asterisk, payment will not be made for more than four hours in any one week.

II.—School Classes.

The following subjects will be recognised as subjects of manual and technical instruction in school classes, and annual grants will be made if the conditions are observed:—

Classes P.—Standard II.

Any of the following subjects:—
Kindergarten manual exercises (not including games)—e.g., paper-weaving, paper-folding, paper-mounting, brick-laying, drawing in chalk—for not less than two hours a week continuously throughout the school year, 6d. a head per annum on the average attendance. Modelling in clay or plasticine, brush-work, modelling in carton (thin cardboard), cane-weaving, and basket-work, &c.—not less than two hours a week continuously throughout the school year, 1s. a head per annum on the average attendance. But in no case shall the payments on account of a pupil in Classes P.—Standard II. exceed 1s. per annum.

Standards III.—IV.

Modelling in clay or plasticine, brush-work, modelling in cardboard or carton, wire-work, basket-work in cane or willow, drawing in chalk or charcoal, &c.—not less than two hours a week continuously throughout the school year, 2s. a head per annum on the average attendance.

School Classes doing Work in other Subjects not lower than that of Standard V.

(a.) (i.) Drawing, painting, modelling, or design, or any other of the subjects named for special or associated classes in manual or technical work, as in Section III., Division A (except subjects 1, 2, and 3), and Division B, but treated in a more elementary manner. (ii.) Modelling in cardboard. (iii.) Sgraffito work. (iv.) Wood-carving. (v.) Parquetry work—not less than two hours a week continuously throughout the school year, 2s. 6d. per head per annum on the average attendance.
Other subjects similar to the above may be recognised, but the programme must be in any case submitted for the approval of the Minister before the commencement of the instruction.
It will in general be a sufficient indication of the programme if the handbook followed be named—e.g., “carton work, as in ‘Carton Work,’ by G. C. Hewitt, published by King and Sons, Halifax.”
(b.) For the following subjects, 2s. 6d. will be paid for each pupil who has received not less than twenty lessons during the school year: First aid and ambulance (boys); first aid and nursing (girls); cottage gardening (boys and girls)—each lesson to be for at least one hour; swimming and life-saving (boys and girls)—each lesson, as a rule, to be for at least half an hour.
The work in these classes (b) must be practical. In the cases of cottage gardening, 5s. will be paid for such pupil who has received forty lessons of not less than one hour each during the school year.
(c.) Where special and appropriate provision has been made for the practical teaching of woodwork or of work in iron, a payment of 10s. will be made on account of any boy whose work in other subjects is not