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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 100

(3.) Machine construction and drawing.
(4.) Building construction and drawing.
(5.) Free-arm and blackboard drawing and drawing from memory.
(6.) Drawing in light and shade from flat examples of rigid forms, from models or casts, or from objects of still life.
(7.) Elementary design and colour work.
(8.) Painting from flat examples, or from nature, of flowers, or of still life.
(9.) Painting ornament in monochrome from flat examples or from casts.
(10.) Modelling in clay, or plasticine, or plaster.
(11.) Modelling in cardboard.
(12.) Chip carving from pupils’ own designs.
(13.) Wood-carving.

(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.) For any one of the above subjects 2s. 6d. will be paid for each unit of the average attendance at the classes. If two subjects are taken 3s. 6d. will be paid, provided that at least one hour a week is given to each of them; but in no case shall the payment on account of a pupil for work done in the above subjects exceed 3s. 6d. per annum.

(d.) Nevertheless, where it is not possible to provide for two hours’ instruction a week, a payment of 1s. 3d. may be made for one hour’s instruction a week regularly throughout the school year in any one of the above subjects.

22. School classes in the subjects specified in clauses 23 to 27 hereunder must, to earn the grant, be also doing work in other subjects not lower than that of Standard V.

(In public schools of less than 200 in average daily attendance Standard IV. pupils may be included.)

23. (a.) (1.) First aid and ambulance (boys and girls).
    (2.) Cottage gardening (boys and girls).
    (3.) Swimming and life-saving (boys and girls).

(b.) In each of the above subjects twenty lessons must be given during the school year. The duration of each lesson in the case of (1) and (2) must be at least one hour, and at least half an hour in the case of (3). For these subjects 2s. 6d. per annum will be paid for each unit of the average attendance. For cottage gardening, if forty lessons of not less than one hour each are given during the year, 5s. will be paid.

24. (a.) (1.) Woodwork.
    (2.) Work in iron.

(b.) Where special and appropriate provision has been made for teaching the above subjects a payment of 10s. per annum will be paid for each unit of the average attendance, provided that the instruction is given to the pupils of the school for two hours a week regularly for thirty weeks during the school year; provided also that until the end of the year 1903 payment of 15s. per annum may be made if the ordinary staff of the school is unable to provide instruction in these subjects.

(c.) The two hours a week required may include half an hour for the drawing necessary for these subjects, and must include at least one hour and a half of actual use of tools by the boys themselves working at the bench.

(d.) The instruction in woodwork or work in iron must be in the use of the ordinary tools used in the handicrafts of wood or iron, and must be connected with the instruction in drawing—that is to say, the work must be from drawings to scale previously made by the pupils.

(e.) The number of pupils at any one time receiving instruction in either of these subjects from one teacher must not exceed twenty-four.

(f.) A pupil leaving the school during the school year may complete his course in either of these subjects at the class in which he was enrolled, and his attendance may be counted as if he were still a pupil at the school.

25. (a.) (1.) Cookery.
    (2.) Dairy work.

(b.) Where special and appropriate provision has been made for the practical teaching of the above subjects, 10s. per annum for each unit of the average attendance will be paid, provided that the instruction is given to pupils of the school for not less than forty hours during the school year. Nevertheless, where the Minister is satisfied that it is impossible to provide for forty hours’ instruction, a payment of 5s. may be made for twenty hours. Until the end of the year 1903 payments of 15s. or 7s. 6d. respectively may be made if the ordinary staff of the school is unable to provide instruction in these subjects.

(c.) At least half the total time given to the instruction must be devoted to individual practice by the pupils themselves.

(d.) The number of pupils at any one time receiving instruction in either of these subjects from one teacher must not exceed twenty; except that for the purpose of a demonstration lesson three classes of twenty scholars may be present, provided that that number can be conveniently accommodated.