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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(6.) Elementary mechanics.
(7.) Physics.
(8.) Chemistry.
(9.) Botany.
(10.) Book-keeping.
(11.) Shorthand.
(12.) Agriculture.
(13.) Physiology.
(14.) Geology.
(15.) Any other subject approved by the Minister.
(16.) Two of the following:—
(a.) Geography } as for Junior Civil Service
and } Examination.
(b.) History
(c.) Handwork.
(d.) Mechanical drawing.

• The work in these subjects must show advance beyond what is offered or required for Standard VI.

6. Subject to the provisions of clause 4, £4 per annum, in addition to the grant under clause 5, shall be paid for each qualified pupil who is admitted to the secondary classes without payment of fee, and who takes not less than three secondary subjects in addition to English and arithmetic.

7. Subject to the provisions of clause 4, £30 per annum, in addition to the grants under clauses 5 and 6, shall be paid on account of each district high school having not less than twelve qualified pupils receiving instruction in three or more secondary subjects in addition to English and arithmetic.

8. Grants under clause 7 may, at the discretion of the Board, be expended in whole or in part in the purchase of apparatus for the use of the secondary classes, but with this exception the whole of the grants made hereunder shall be paid either to the additional teachers appointed to the school, or as additions to the salaries of the other teachers at the school, or partly in one way and partly in another, as the Board may determine.

9. Grants hereunder shall be paid quarter by quarter, and applications for payment thereof shall be made on forms supplied by the Education Department.

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

"The Public-School Teachers' Salaries Act, 1901."—Regulations.

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 exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by "The Public-School Teachers' Salaries Act, 1901," His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the colony, doth hereby make the following regulations for the purposes of the said Act; and, with the like advice and consent, doth hereby prescribe that this Order shall come into force on the date of the first publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATIONS.

1. For the purposes of "The Public-School Teachers' Salaries Act, 1901" (hereinafter called "the Act"), the average attendance for any year shall be the average daily attendance for the year ended 31st December immediately preceding, called hereinafter "the yearly average attendance." The yearly average attendance for any school shall be found by adding together the average daily attendances for the four quarters ending 31st December, as ascertained at the end of each quarter, and dividing the total by four; the result shall be expressed as a whole number correct to the nearest unit, one-half being reckoned as a whole:

Provided that in the cases stated in the following clauses the average attendance shall be taken to be as therein prescribed.

On the 1st January in each year the schools in each district shall be placed in the grades named in the scale of staffs and salaries in Schedule I., Part I., of the Act, according to the yearly average attendance.

2. Increases of staff due to increase of attendance during the current school year may be made as follows:—

(a.) For a school graded on the 1st January as having not over 40 in yearly average attendance, if at the beginning of any subsequent quarter it shall appear that the average daily attendance thereat has reached—
51 for the quarter immediately preceding, or
47 " two quarters "
43 " three "
the Board may at its discretion appoint an additional teacher, as prescribed in Schedule I. of the Act.

(b.) For a school graded on the 1st January as having over 40 but not over 90 in yearly average attendance, if at the beginning of any subsequent quarter it shall appear that the average daily attendance thereat has reached—
110 for the quarter immediately preceding, or
100 " two quarters "
95 " three "
the Board may at its discretion appoint the additional pupil-teacher, as prescribed in Schedule I. of the Act.

(c.) For a school placed on the 1st January in one of the grades 7 or 8 (over 90 and not over 150), if at the beginning of any subsequent quarter it shall appear that the average daily attendance thereat has risen above the maximum for such grade by—
20 for the quarter immediately preceding, or by
10 " two quarters "
5 " three "
the Board may at its discretion appoint the additional teacher or pupil-teacher, as prescribed in Schedule I. of the Act.

(d.) For a school placed on the 1st January in grade 9, or a higher grade (over 150), if at the beginning of any subsequent quarter it shall appear that the average daily attendance thereat has risen above the maximum for such grade by—
40 for the quarter immediately preceding, or by
20 " two quarters "
10 " three "
the Board may at its discretion appoint the additional teacher or pupil-teacher, as prescribed in Schedule I. of the Act.

3. Decreases of staff due to decrease of attendance during the current school year shall be regulated as follows:—

(a.) For a school placed on the 1st January in grade 4, 5, or 6, if at the beginning of any subsequent quarter it shall appear that the average daily attendance thereat has fallen below—
31 for the quarter immediately preceding, and below
35 " two quarters "
39 " three "
the staff shall be reduced in accordance with the First Schedule of the Act.

(b.) For a school placed on the 1st January in grade 7, 8, or 9, if at the beginning of any subsequent quarter it shall appear that the average daily attendance thereat has fallen below the minimum for such grade by—
20 for the quarter immediately preceding, and by
10 " two quarters "
5 " three "
the staff shall be reduced in accordance with the First Schedule of the Act.

(c.) For a school placed on the 1st January in grade 10, or a higher grade, if at the beginning of any subsequent quarter it shall appear that the average daily attendance thereat has fallen below the minimum for such grade by—
40 for the quarter immediately preceding, and by
20 " two quarters "
10 " three "
the staff shall be reduced in accordance with the First Schedule of the Act.

4. Nothing in clauses 2 and 3 shall be held to apply to salaries, which, except as stated in clause 6 below, shall be regulated by the yearly average attendance.

5. Notwithstanding any adjustment of the staff of a school made in accordance with clauses 2 and 3 above in any year, the staff of such school shall for the following year be in accordance with the yearly average attendance until fresh cause shall appear to modify such staff.

6. In any school graded on the 1st January as having not over 30 in yearly average attendance, if at the beginning of any subsequent quarter it shall appear that the average daily attendance has increased by—
   10 for the quarter immediately preceding, or by
   5 " two quarters "
   the salary for such subsequent quarter shall be paid on the average daily attendance for the four quarters immediately preceding; and for each quarter thereafter until the 31st December of the same year the salary shall be paid on the average daily attendance for the four quarters immediately preceding.

Notwithstanding, from the 1st January next ensuing the salary shall be paid on the yearly average attendance until there be fresh cause, as provided herein, for departing from such basis of payment.

7. Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing clauses, the average daily attendance for the four quarters ended 30th September, 1901, shall for the first quarter of the year 1902 be considered as the yearly average attendance for the purposes of the Act and of these regulations.