Dec. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2623

13. The payment on account of a school class shall be based on the average attendance of pupils at that class.
14. All claims for payment must be made by the controlling authority on forms supplied by the Department, and must be rendered to the Department within three months after the end of the year.
15. Grants for work done in school classes are, as a rule, to be paid at the end of the year; but if, in the opinion of the Minister, the nature of the work requires it, proportionate payments on account may be made during the year.
16. Claims on account of any pupil attending two or more classes must not exceed a total of 15s. per annum; except that until the end of the year 1903 20s. may be claimed where one of the classes attended by the pupil is a class in woodwork, work in iron, cookery, or dairy work.
17. All school classes for manual and technical instruction must be conducted in rooms adapted to the purpose, and, for practical work, fitted with suitable apparatus or tools.
18. (a.) The subjects specified in clauses 19 to 27 hereunder are examples of what may be recognised as subjects of manual and technical instruction for school classes.
    (b.) Instruction in handwork must, wherever the nature of the particular subject treated of allows, be accompanied by and connected with appropriate instruction in drawing.
19. (a.)

Classes P.—Standard II.

DIVISION I.

(1.) Stick-laying.
(2.) Brick-laying.
(3.) Paper weaving and plaiting.
(4.) Drawing in chalk.
(5.) Free-arm drawing.

DIVISION II.

(1.) Paper-folding.
(2.) Designing in coloured papers.
(3.) Modelling in clay or plasticine.
(4.) Modelling in carton (thin cardboard).
(5.) Brush drawing.
(6.) Cane-weaving.

(b.) To earn the grant the time given to instruction must be not less than two hours a week regularly throughout the school year. The two hours may be given entirely to one of the subjects, or may be divided between two or more of them.
(c.) If subjects from Division I. are taken, 6d. per annum will be paid for each unit of the average attendance at the classes. If subjects from Division II., or from both divisions, are taken, 1s. will be paid, provided that in the latter case at least one hour a week is given to the subject selected from Division II.; but in no case shall the payment on account of a pupil exceed 1s. per annum.
20. (a.)

Standards III., IV.

DIVISION I.

(1.) Wirework.
(2.) Bricklaying.
(3.) Drawing in chalk or charcoal.
(4.) Free-arm drawing.

DIVISION II.

(1.) Modelling in clay or plasticine.
(2.) Brush-drawing.
(3.) Designing in coloured papers.
(4.) Modelling in carton or in cardboard.
(5.) Basket-work in cane or willow.

(b.) To earn the full grant the time given to instruction in any one or any two of the above subjects must be not less than two hours a week regularly throughout the school year.
(c.) If subjects from Division I. are taken, 1s. 6d. per annum will be paid for each unit of the average attendance at the classes. If subjects from Division II., or from both divisions, are taken, 2s. 6d. will be paid, provided that in either case at least one hour a week is given to any subject selected from Division II.; but in no case shall the payment on account of a pupil for work done in the above subjects exceed 2s. 6d. per annum.
(d.) Nevertheless, where it is not possible to provide for two hours’ instruction a week, a payment of 9d. for a subject in Division I., or of 1s. 3d. for a subject in Division II., may be made for one hour’s instruction a week therein regularly throughout the school year.
21. (a.) School Classes doing Work in other Subjects not lower than that of Standard V.

(In public schools of less than 100 in average daily attendance Standard IV. pupils may be included.)

(1.) Perspective.
(2.) Elementary practical surveying and elementary practical mensuration.