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(c.) If subjects from Division I. and Division II. are taken, payment will be made at the higher rate, provided that at least one hour a week is given to the subject taken from Division II.; but in no case shall the payment on account of a pupil in Classes P.-Standard II. exceed 1s. per annum.

21. For the following subjects 2s. 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 but not more than two of them.

Standards III., IV.

(1.) Modelling in clay or plasticine.
(2.) Brushwork.
(3.) Modelling in carton or cardboard.
(4.) Wirework (including the necessary drawing).
(5.) Bricklaying (including the necessary drawing).
(6.) Basketwork in cane or willow.
(7.) Drawing in chalk or charcoal.
(8.) Free-arm drawing.

22. For the following subjects 2s. 6d. per annum for each unit of the average attendance will be paid, if 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 but not more than two of them.

School Classes doing Work in other Subjects not lower than that of Standard V.

(In public schools of less than 100 in average daily attendance Standard IV. pupils may be included.)

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

23. For each of the following 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, 5s. will be paid.

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

24. (a.) Where special and appropriate provision has been made for teaching the following 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 1902 payment of 15s. per annum may be made if the ordinary staff of the school is unable to provide instruction in these subjects.

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

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

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

(d.) 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.