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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 46

inmate, or any part of such moneys, may, as a punishment, be, by direction of the Minister, paid into the Public Account of the colony as part of the Consolidated Fund of the colony as provided by law ; and any expense or loss occasioned to the Government through the absconding or other misbehaviour of any inmate may be made good from the earnings of such inmate.

92. The Minister may, if he please, direct that a sum of 5s. a week, or some lesser sum, be deducted from the accumulated earnings of any inmate of a Government school who, through his own fault, frequently returns to such school from service. These deductions are to be regarded as contributions towards the cost of maintaining such inmate, and are to be paid into the Public Account of the colony as part of the Consolidated Fund of the colony as provided by law. Deductions shall not be made from the earnings of any inmate to cover a period of more than six months at any one time, and shall only apply to the time or times when such inmate is in residence.

93. Inmates who are old enough to be licensed to service, but who for any reason except repeated misbehaviour are in the opinion of the Minister not suitable to be so licensed, may be remunerated for their services at the school at such rate as may in each case be fixed by him. Moneys so earned by inmates shall be dealt with as provided by section 57 of the principal Act.

94. In such schools as the Minister may select, and under such rules as he sees fit to make, a well-considered system of monetary rewards to inmates and of badges for good conduct may be established.

Punishments.

95. Subject to the provisions of these regulations and section 14 of “The Private Industrial Schools Regulation and Industrial Schools Act Amendment Act, 1900,” corporal punishment such as may be lawfully inflicted by schoolmasters on scholars under their charge may be administered to any inmate of any school.

96. The manager may himself inflict corporal punishment, or may depute any officer or teacher to do so, but the manager, or, in his absence, the officer for the time being in charge of the school, shall be present when such punishment is being inflicted. As a rule the officer deputed by the manager to inflict corporal punishment shall not be the officer who reports the offence on account of which the punishment is administered.

97. A teacher, while in charge of a room or playground in which the inmates of a school are subject to the same kind of instruction and discipline as that which is provided in the public schools of the colony, may at his discretion administer such corporal punishment as may be lawfully inflicted by schoolmasters in similar cases.

98. Except as herein provided, no officer or servant shall on any account be allowed to strike an inmate, or to inflict any corporal chastisement, and every officer or servant shall be liable to summary dismissal for any breach of this rule.

99. No stick or whip may be used for the chastisement of an inmate of a school. A light supple cane or plain leather strap may be used for male inmates, and a plain leather strap for female inmates. If a strap be used, it shall be in breadth not less than 1¼ in., and shall not exceed 30 in. in length, ¼ in. in thickness, and 5½ oz. in weight, and nothing likely to make the punishment more severe shall be attached to it. In the case of female inmates and boys under twelve years of age a strap lighter in proportion to the age of the inmate is to be used.

100. Not more than twelve strokes of a strap or cane shall be administered at any one time, nor shall the cane be used on the bare skin.

101. Notwithstanding, for grave offences, such as gross insubordination, repeated attempts to abscond, or inciting to abscond, gross indecency, persistent refusal to obey orders, gross insolence, violence to officers, servants, or inmates, or wilful damage to property, corporal punishment may be administered to male inmates with a birch on the bare breech. The number of strokes administered to such inmates shall not exceed twelve at any one time. The birch so used must have been certified to by the medical officer as suitable for the purpose.

102. No inmate shall be punished more than once for the same offence.

103. No manager, officer, teacher, or servant shall punish any inmate by dosing him or causing him to be dosed with medicine, or any other substance.

104. No inmate shall be punished by being required to hold himself in a constrained or fatiguing position.

105. All punishments shall be imposed and inflicted in a strictly judicial manner.