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(e.) The time devoted to cookery must be not less than a continuous hour and a half at any one meeting. A list of the dishes prepared in class must be included in the details of the work forwarded to the Department at the close of the instruction, and the record of the instruction given at each lesson must be shown to the Inspector at the time of his visit, if he should so desire.

(f.) Pupils leaving the school during the school year may complete their course at the class in which they were enrolled in either of these subjects, and their attendance may be counted as if they were still pupils at the school.

26. (a.) (1.) Dressmaking, or advanced plain needlework—that is, plain needlework more advanced in character than that required by the Standard Regulations.

(2.) Laundry work.

(b.) Where special and appropriate provision has been made for teaching the above subjects, 5s. per annum will be paid for each unit of the average attendance, provided that instruction is given to the pupils of the school for forty hours in respect of (1) and for twenty hours in respect of (2) during the school year. The duration of each lesson must be not less than one hour.

(c.) At least half the total time given to the instruction must be devoted to individual practice by the pupils themselves, and in the case of dressmaking or plain needlework this practice must include the measuring, drafting, and cutting-out of patterns by the pupils with their own hands.

(d.) The number of pupils at any one time receiving instruction from one teacher in either of these subjects must not exceed thirty.

(e.) From the 1st of January, 1903, in any public school having not more than forty children in average daily attendance, and having no female teacher, 10s. per annum will be paid for each unit of the average attendance of the girls who receive instruction in needlework, as defined in the Standard Regulations, for not less than two hours a week regularly throughout the school year.

27. (a.) (1.) Elementary agriculture.
    (2.) Elementary chemistry.
    (3.) Elementary physics.
    (4.) Elementary botany.
    (5.) Elementary geology.
    (6.) Elementary physiography.

(b.) Where special and appropriate provision has been made for teaching the above subjects, 2s. 6d. per annum for each unit of the average attendance will be paid, provided that instruction is given regularly to the pupils of the school for not less than one hour a week throughout the school year. For subjects (1), (2), (3), 5s. will be paid if the instruction is given regularly for two hours a week throughout the school year.

(c.) Each pupil must give to individual practice at least half the total time devoted to instruction in any of these subjects.

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

SECOND SCHEDULE.

New clause 31A.—The instructions printed in the register must be strictly observed. Failure to observe them may lead to a reduction in or to the withholding of the capitation earned by the class concerned.

New clause 36, in substitution for the present clause, which is hereby revoked.—Except in the case of classes for teachers, or of classes conducted in country districts by itinerant instructors, no capitation shall be paid on account of any class which has not received regular instruction during a period of at least ten weeks.

Clause 40 amended by the insertion of the words “special or an associated” after the words “means a” in the first line thereof.

Clause 40, paragraph (3), amended by the insertion of the word “*Maori” after the word “Italian” in the first line thereof.

Clause 43 amended by the deletion of the words “for instruction,” and by the insertion of the words “of manual and technical instruction” after the word “subjects,” and of the words “special or associated” after the words “recognised as.”

Clause 43, division IV., amended by adding “woolsorting” to the list of subjects.

Clause 50 amended by inserting after the words “derived from,” in the sixth line thereof, the word “lands.”

Clause 61 amended by inserting after the words “of any,” in the first line thereof, the word “land.”

Clause 64 amended by the deletion of the words “in connection with public schools.”

Clause 65 amended by the insertion of the word “school” after the words “in respect of” in the second line thereof, by the deletion of the words “in connection with public schools,” and by substituting therefor the words “in subjects named in clauses 23 to 27.”

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.