APRIL 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1039

Notice of Intention to take Land in the Township of Grahamtown for Road Purposes.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of “The Public Works Act, 1894,” to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a road in the Township of Grahamtown, and for the purposes of such public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the said road and of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the Post-office, Whangarei, and is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing within forty days from the first publication of this notice to the Minister for Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

The several parcels of land mentioned hereunder:—

All in the Land District of Auckland; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 19932, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured as above.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this 18th day of April, 1903.

WM. HALL-JONES,
Minister for Public Works.

"The School Attendance Act, 1901," Section 13.

REGULATIONS FOR ATTENDANCE OF NATIVE CHILDREN.

Education Department,
Wellington, 20th April, 1903.

IN pursuance of the authority conferred upon me by section 13 of “The School Attendance Act, 1901,” I, William Campbell Walker, Minister of Education, do hereby make the regulations hereto annexed for the attendance at school of Maori children.

W. C. WALKER,
Minister of Education.

REGULATIONS.

1. Every Maori child whose age is not less than seven years and not more than fifteen years, and who lives within a radius of three miles of a Native school, shall attend school regularly unless he is entitled to exemption from attendance under clause 2 of these regulations.

2. A child shall not be required to attend school if an Inspector of Native Schools shall have issued a certificate of exemption for that child on any of the following grounds:—

(a.) That the child has passed Standard IV., or possesses attainments fully equal to those required for Standard IV.; or

(b.) That the child is a cripple, or for some other reason is physically unable to attend; or

(c.) That the child suffers from some infectious or contagious disease that would make its attendance at school a source of danger to others; or

(d.) That the child’s mental condition is such that it is undesirable that he (or she) should attend school; or

(e.) That the difficulty of reaching the school is such that it would be unreasonable to expect the child to attend school.

3. Parents or guardians living beyond the radius of three miles may sign an undertaking to send the children under their control to a stated school established or to be established; and every such parent or guardian shall then be subject to the provisions of these regulations as if he lived within the radius of three miles. The Minister of Education may release any such parent or guardian from his undertaking if he is satisfied that the circumstances have changed to such an extent that it would be unreasonable not to release him.

4. Whether such an undertaking as is referred to in clause 3 exists or not, a Maori Council, elected under “The Maori Councils Act, 1900,” shall have the power to decide that a Maori parent or guardian living beyond the radius of three miles from a given school, whose children might without great expense live within such radius, shall be subject to the provisions of these regulations, and their decision shall make such parent or guardian so subject.

5. Every child between the age of seven years and the age of fourteen years who attends some Native or some public school not less than four times in any week in which the school is open six times, six times in any week in which the school is open eight times, and eight times in any week in which the school is open ten times—morning and afternoon attendances being separately counted—will for the purposes of these regulations be held to have attended school regularly for the week during which such attendances have been made.

6. The Minister of Education may appoint a Truant Officer for any district in which a Native school is situated—i.e., for any district with a three-mile radius, and having a Native school within it; or the Truant Officer may be appointed to deal with more than one such district.

7. A Truant Officer shall have the right to obtain from the teacher full information as to the non-attendance of any scholar whose name is on the school roll of any school in his district or districts.

8. The Truant Officer may, with the concurrence of the School Committee or on instructions given by the Secretary for Education, take steps to compel the regular attendance of any child whose attendance is not regular or who does not attend at all.

9. In the event of no action being taken by a Truant Officer, a Native School Committee or the Secretary for Education may take proceedings under these regulations to compel attendance.

10. The Minister of Education may, if he deem it desirable to do so for purposes of these regulations, in cases in which Native schools are less than three miles apart, determine the boundaries of any school districts; and every child subject to the provisions of these regulations shall in such a case attend the school in the district in which he resides.

11. The Minister may also determine boundaries of Native School Attendance Commission districts, which districts may contain only one Native school, or more than one.

12. For each school-attendance district the Minister may from time to time appoint two or more men, members of the Maori Council or others, who shall be a School Attendance Commission to consider cases of irregular attendance laid before them, and to determine which of these cases, if any, shall be brought before a Magistrate or a Justice of the Peace to be dealt with under the Act. The members of a School Attendance Commission may be members of School Committees, provided that not more than one member of a given School Attendance Commission belongs to a given School Committee.

13. The Minister may appoint a Maori Council elected under “The Maori Councils Act, 1900,” or a Village Committee of such Council, to be a School Attendance Commission.

14. Notwithstanding anything in clause 12, the Minister may appoint a School Committee to be a School Attendance Commission for its own school district.

15. If a School Attendance Commission is satisfied that a child whose case is brought before it has not attended regularly, it may through one of its members lay an information, make a complaint, conduct a prosecution, or take any or all other proceedings specified in “The School Attendance Act, 1901.” These proceedings shall be taken before a Magistrate or Justice of the Peace.

16. The fines inflicted may be paid, as the Magistrate or Justice of the Peace shall direct, either to the Treasurer of the Maori Council for the benefit of the Maori Council funds, or to the teacher of the school for the benefit of the recreation fund or library fund of the school.

17. In the case of a fine imposed by a Magistrate or a Justice of the Peace for non-attendance or irregular attendance not being paid within two months of the date on which it is inflicted, the Secretary for Education may take proceedings to recover such fine in accordance with “The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882,” and shall pay it over in accordance with the direction of the Magistrate or Justice of the Peace.

18. Proceedings under these regulations may be taken before a Stipendiary Magistrate or before two Justices of the Peace. In such case all the functions of a School At-