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Division C.

(1.) Steam. (2.) Sound. (3.) Light. (4.) Heat. (5.) Magnetism. (6.) Electricity. (7.) Inorganic chemistry. (8.) Organic chemistry. (9.) Metallurgy. (10.) Mining. (11.) Chemistry of commerce. (12.) Surveying.

Division D.

(1.) Telegraphy and telephony. (2.) Electric-light and power distribution. (3.) Metal-plate work. (4.) Photography. (5.) Plumbers’ work. (6.) Mechanical engineering. (7.) Carpentry and joinery. (8.) Brickwork. (9.) Plasterers’ work. (10.) Painters’ and decorators’ work. (11.) Cabinetmaking. (12.) Dressmaking. (13.) Plain needlework. (14.) Plain cookery. (15.) Wheelwrights’ work. (16.) Woodwork. (17.) Metal-work. (18.) Agriculture. (19.) Horticulture. (20.) Dairy-work. (21.) Laundry-work. (22.) Household management.

In Divisions A and B not more than 160 attendances in any one subject will be counted during each year on account of any student. Any appropriate grouping of subjects in Sections A, B, C, D will be allowed.

In Divisions C and D not more than 240 attendances in any one subject will be counted during each year on account of any student.

In the case of any subject in Divisions A or C the class must be held for not less than fifty hours in the year, of which not more than eight hours may be in any one week or more than four hours in any one day. In the case of any subject in Divisions B or D, the class must be held for not less than thirty hours in the year, of which not more than six hours may be in any one week or more than two hours in any one day. These limits do not apply to classes established for teachers or instructors.

In all cases students must receive an appropriate amount of practical instruction to the satisfaction of the Minister.

In Divisions C and D, in addition to the practical work necessary for demonstration, at least half of the total time for which payment is claimed must be devoted to individual practice by the students working with their own hands; such individual practice must in general not be less than a continuous hour and a half in any one lesson.

Division E.—Commercial Work.

To be entitled to payment under the head of “technical instruction” commercial work must include three or more of the following subjects, two at least of which must be taken from subdivision (a):—

(a.) Book-keeping; shorthand; commercial law; industrial law; economics of industry; chemistry of commerce.

(b.) Typewriting; correspondence and précis-writing; commercial or actuarial arithmetic; commercial history; industrial history; commercial geography.

For the subjects of the two subdivisions together there will be counted for payment not more than 180 hours in a year, or six hours in any one week, or three hours in any one day. At least two-thirds of the time must be given to subjects taken from subdivision (a).

To entitle it to be counted as technical instruction, not less than sixty hours in a year must be devoted to commercial work as above defined.

IV.—College Classes.

1. All the subjects in divisions A, B, C, and D of Section III. will be recognised as subjects of technical instruction in college classes; also

2. Chemistry, or any other science treated practically with immediate reference to agriculture, horticulture, or dairy-work, or to any other industry, or to manufactures.

3. Commercial law; industrial law; economics of industry; actuarial arithmetic (including the use of logarithms); commercial history; industrial history; higher commercial geography.

Claims for payment on account of the subjects named in 3 are subject to the conditions named in Division E of Section III. No claim for payment will be recognised in respect of any subject on account of a student who is taking such subject in the ordinary course of his university studies. In other respects the conditions are the same as for special or associated classes.

V.—Regulations for the Appointment of Managers of Associated Classes.

For the Auckland Technical Classes, the “Elam” School of Art, the Masterton Technical School, the Christchurch School of Domestic Instruction, the Dunedin Technical Classes, the Invercargill Technical Classes, being the associated classes specified in Part II. of the Second Schedule of the Act, there shall be in each case five managers, who shall be elected by the subscribers or trustees, or subscribers and trustees, as the case may be, yearly, in the month of January or February, at a meeting specially called for the purpose, notice in every case of not less than ten clear days