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SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

OF

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1902.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1902.

"The Education Act, 1877," and "The Public-school Teachers' Salaries Act, 1901."—District High Schools.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fourteenth day of February, 1902.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE J. CARROLL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by "The Education Act, 1877," and "The Public-school Teachers' Salaries Act, 1901," His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth make the regulations hereto annexed regarding district high schools, and, with the like advice and consent, doth prescribe that this Order shall come into force on the date of the first publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

1. In district high schools instruction shall be given in such of the subjects of secondary education specified in clause 6 hereof as the Education Board of the district shall in each case determine. The instruction shall be given by a teacher or teachers duly qualified to impart such instruction, and in classes separate from those in which the ordinary subjects of the public-school course are taught.

2. The pupils receiving instruction in secondary subjects shall also receive instruction in arithmetic and in the English language and literature to a standard as high at least as that prescribed for Standard VI. The English shall include the study of one or more of the works of some standard author—not less than 800 lines of poetry or 200 pages of prose in a year, or an equivalent in poetry and prose.

3. To ascertain the staff to be employed at a district high school, the average daily attendance thereat of all the pupils (including those receiving instruction in secondary subjects) shall be taken, and the staff shall be the same as that for any other public school with that average attendance; but the Board may, with the sanction of the Minister, make such additions thereto as the additional work of teaching the secondary subjects may require: Provided, however, that (a) the staff employed in teaching the ordinary branches of the public-school course shall at all times be as strong as would be prescribed for a school having the same average attendance as that of the pupils at such district high school who are receiving instruction in such ordinary branches; and (b) the head-teacher shall devote the greater part of his time to the supervision and instruction of the classes in which such ordinary branches are taught.

4. In respect of every district high school, the special grants specified in clauses 5, 6, and 7 hereof shall be made to the Education Board of the district, subject to the following provisions:—

(a.) "Qualified pupil" means a pupil that has passed Standard VI., and no payment hereunder shall be made in respect of any other than a qualified pupil.

(b.) No payment shall be made under clause 6 in respect of any district high school at which the number of qualified pupils is less than twelve.

(c.) In respect of pupils that have attended less than 80 per cent. of the number of times that the school was open, or less than 70 per cent. of such times if they are entitled to exemption under subsection (a) of section 4 of "The School Attendance Act, 1901," the payment under clause 5 shall be made on the average number of such pupils in daily attendance, and there shall be no payment under clause 6.

5. Subject to the provisions of clause 4, there shall be paid £2 per annum for each qualified pupil instructed in three or more of the following subjects, or 10s. per annum for each such pupil instructed in one of the subjects, or £1 per annum for each such pupil instructed in two of the subjects:—

(1.) Latin.
(2.) French.
(3.) Euclid.
(4.) Algebra.
(5.) Trigonometry.

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