1298
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 46

63. Every instructor in manual work shall keep in a book provided for the purpose a daily record of the names of the inmates under his instruction, and the number of hours during which instruction has been given. He shall also report monthly, or oftener if directed to do so, to the manager on the conduct of each inmate under his instruction, and the aptitude of such inmate for the work in which he is employed.

64. Female inmates who are over twelve years of age shall, as far as practicable, be taught domestic work, and the instruction of female inmates over fourteen years of age shall include household management, cooking, laundry work, sewing, darning, cutting out, and setting plain work for a sewing-machine.

65. Care must be taken that no inmate is required to do work beyond his strength.

66. It shall ever be the aim of managers to direct the attention of all inmates to rural life and rural occupations; and with this end in view, wherever practicable, instruction in farm-work shall be given to all boys not obviously unfitted for it; and, in like manner, instruction in dairy-work, poultry-keeping, gardening, and similar pursuits shall be given to both boys and girls.

67. Wherever practicable, regular instruction in swimming shall be given to resident inmates, and they shall also receive elementary tuition and individual practice in life-saving.

68. Military drill for boys and appropriate physical exercises for girls resident at schools shall form part of the school routine. Not less than half an hour on each day on which day school instruction is given shall be so occupied. In general, the only ground of exemption shall be the physical or pronounced mental infirmity or the weak health of an inmate.

69. Managers shall see that all inmates have, under proper supervision, regular and sufficient opportunities for exercise and both indoor and outdoor recreation.

70. There shall be a suitable library at each school, and inmates shall have access to it frequently under such rules as the manager shall lay down, and they shall be encouraged to cultivate a taste for reading.

Classification.

71. The manager shall keep under close observation any boy or girl who becomes a resident inmate of a school, and shall, if necessary, prevent such inmate from communicating or associating in any way with other inmates; and, should any inmate at any time during his detention show characteristics that are likely to injuriously affect other inmates of the school, the manager shall immediately communicate with the Secretary for Education with a view to having such inmate transferred to a reformatory, or to the care of some other institution or person fitted to deal with the special case.

72. Any inmate may, in the manner provided by law, be at any time transferred to a reformatory from any other industrial school; but, in general, no one who has been for more than six months an inmate of a reformatory shall become a resident inmate of any other industrial school.

73. In each reformatory there shall be a well-considered system of classification. The inmates in each class shall, as far as possible, be kept separate from the inmates in other classes.

74. In each reformatory for girls it shall be the duty of the manager to keep apart from other inmates as long as she considers it necessary any girl who is in the school on the ground that she has been associating with immoral persons, or has herself been leading a sexually immoral life, or who the manager has reason to believe has been living such a life.

75. No girl shall be detained at a school in which boys over ten years of age may be detained. This regulation shall not apply to the Caversham Industrial School until such time as may be fixed by the Minister. Notwithstanding, at any Government industrial school, not being a reformatory, any boy or girl under fourteen years of age may be temporarily received, until arrangements have been made for transfer elsewhere.

Religious and Moral Training.

76. Every facility shall be given by managers to ministers of religion and other authorised religious teachers to enable such persons to give such religious instruction to inmates who belong to the particular creed, denomination, or persuasion to which such ministers or teachers respectively belong, as is in accordance with the tenets of such creed, denomination, or persuasion, and to converse with such inmates, or hold religious service at such times as shall be agreed upon between such ministers or teachers and the manager of the school to which such inmates belong. When inmates are receiving religious instruction in a class, or are present at a religious service, the manager may take such steps as he sees fit to secure good discipline.