JUNE 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1297

Diet.

50. The inmates of every school shall have not less than three meals a day. The food provided for them shall be in sufficient quantity, of good quality, well prepared, properly served, and in all respects satisfactory to the Inspector. The dining-tables shall be neat and clean.

51. A schedule showing the kind of food provided for each meal on every day of the week shall be kept at every school, and shall be produced when asked for by the Inspector, or any other person authorised to visit industrial schools. This schedule need not be quite strictly adhered to, but it must truly indicate the kind of diet provided for all inmates.

52. For dinner hot roast meat shall be supplied at least once a week, fried meat or boiled meat with soup at least once a week, or twice unless fish once a week forms a substitute. For the other four days meat-stew or cold meat may be served up, but neither of them more than twice. Potatoes shall be supplied daily, and, when possible, at least one other kind of vegetable. Porridge, bread and milk, or some similar food, shall daily form part of the breakfast. In season a plentiful supply of fruit and spring vegetables shall be frequently given. Pudding shall be provided on Sundays, and at least one other day in the week. Bread, with butter, dripping, jam, or golden syrup, shall be given at tea and at breakfast, with sufficient tea, coffee, or milk. At tea, cakes or buns shall be provided at least once a week. Not less than three-fourths of a pint of milk shall be provided for every inmate daily.

53. Except in the case of the special treatment that in the opinion of the medical officer is necessary for any individual inmate, any essential departure from the dietary scale herein shown in outline shall be allowed only by permission of the Minister. The application for such permission shall be accompanied by a written recommendation from the medical officer.

54. A record shall be kept at each school of the amount provided daily of such articles of food as bread, butter, dripping, meat, milk, and vegetables. The meat and vegetables shall be weighed when they are prepared for cooking. This record shall be produced to the Inspector, medical officer, and official visitors whenever required.

55. When an inmate is being sent to reside at a distance from the school to which he belongs, the manager shall see that such inmate is provided with sufficient food, or the means for obtaining sufficient food, for the journey; unless, in special circumstances, the manager shall consider such provision unnecessary.

Clothing.

56. All clothing shall be of good quality, and suited to the climate of the district in which the school is situated. Boys shall have not less than three suits of clothes each, and girls shall have not less than three dresses each; and every boy shall have at least two sets of underclothing, and girls at least three sets. Inmates shall each have two hats, three pairs of socks or stockings, two pairs of boots or shoes, and two night-gowns.

57. The clothing of every inmate shall be set apart specially for his own use, and every article of such clothing shall bear his name, initials, or number, by which it can be distinguished as set apart for such inmate.

58. Inmates shall not be made to wear clothing that does not fit them.

Day-school Instruction, Industrial Training, and other Employment; Recreation.

59. The prescribed regulations under “The Education Act, 1877,” shall, as far as circumstances permit, apply to the day school instruction given to industrial school inmates.

60. Admission- and attendance-registers and log-books shall be in the form in which they are kept at public schools.

61. Every school shall, in the manner prescribed by the regulations under “The Education Act, 1877,” be examined annually by an officer appointed by the Minister, or by an Inspector of Schools appointed by an Education Board.

62. In general, industrial training shall be given regularly to all inmates who are over fourteen years of age; and when an inmate has been placed under instruction in a certain branch of such training he shall, as far as possible, receive regular tuition and practice in the work of such branch until he has a reasonably good knowledge thereof; provided that if an inmate shows want of aptitude for such work he shall not be kept under such instruction. Inmates under fourteen years of age who have passed the standard of exemption as required by the School Attendance Acts may, according to circumstances, receive regular industrial training.

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