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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 13

7. The instruction in woodwork or in 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.

8. Registers of attendance must be kept for all classes.

9. For classes in woodwork, work in iron, cookery, dairy work, laundry work, and dressmaking, the special registers supplied by the Department are to be kept and supervised by the controlling authority, or by some one appointed by the controlling authority, who shall record thereon the number of pupils present at the time of each visit, attesting the same by a dated signature. These registers are to be forwarded to the Department within one month after the close of the instruction for the year.

10. For all other classes the public-school registers of daily attendance may be used, provided that all the pupils, or all the boys or all the girls, as the case may be, whose names appear in such registers are receiving regular instruction in the subjects on account of which claims are made; otherwise the special registers must be used. The registers of daily attendance shall be forwarded to the Department after the close of the instruction for the year, if asked for.

11. The absence of a register will be an absolute bar to the payment of a claim which such register should support as a voucher.

12. For the purposes of recording attendances at school classes, the presence of a pupil at a lesson in any recognised subject of manual or technical instruction may be regarded as “an attendance”; but no attendance at any lesson shall be marked on account of a pupil if he is absent for more than ten minutes from his place.

13. The average attendance for any period shall be computed by first throwing out of account the attendances of all pupils that have attended less than half the number of times the class was held, and then by dividing the remaining number of attendances by the number of lessons given during the period.

14. The payment on account of a school class shall be based on the average attendance of pupils at that class.

15. 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 one month after the end of the period of instruction for which the claims are made.

16. 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.

17. 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 1902, 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.

18. 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.

19. The subjects specified in clauses 20 to 27 hereunder are examples of what may be recognised as subjects of manual and technical instruction for school classes.

20. (a.)
    Classes P.—Standard II.
    Division I.

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

Division II.

(1.) Modelling in clay or plasticine.
(2.) Modelling in carton (thin cardboard).
(3.) Brushwork.
(4.) Cane-weaving.

(b.) For subjects in Division I. 6d. per annum, in Division II. 1s. per annum, will be paid for each unit of the average attendance at the classes, provided that not less than two hours a week regularly throughout the school year are given to the work. The two hours required may be given entirely to one of the subjects, or may be divided between two or more of them.