2686
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 97

other time than the beginning of the school year, unless it shall seem expedient to the governing body of the secondary school to admit such pupils at any other time; nor shall the secondary school be required to admit to a free place any one who was on the books of the secondary school prior to the date hereof.

6. In case there shall not be sufficient accommodation for all pupils seeking for admission to any secondary school, those qualified under subclause (a) of section 3 hereof shall first be admitted, and then the rest, whether holders of free places or otherwise, in the order in which their applications for admission to the school, made within the preceding twelve months, were received by the governing body of the secondary school.

7. (a.) If on a report from the governing body of the secondary school or from the Inspector-General of Schools it shall appear to the Minister that the attendance, conduct, diligence, or progress of any pupil is not satisfactory, the payment on account of such pupil shall cease at the end of the quarter in which such report is received.

(b.) No attendance shall be counted satisfactory in the case of any holder of a free place if he is absent (except on account of illness) more than 20 per cent. of the number of times that the school is open, or more than 30 per cent. of such number of times if the total distance that he would be required to walk from his place of residence to the school, or from his place of residence to the railway or other public conveyance and from the railway or other public conveyance to the school, is more than three miles, the distance being estimated by the nearest road.

8. These free places are open to boys and girls alike.

9. Any holder of a free place whose parents, after his admission to the secondary school, shall remove more than five miles from the secondary school at which his free place is held may continue to hold his free place at any other secondary school at which such free places are tenable.

10. The secondary school shall give to each holder of a free place granted under these regulations instruction in Arithmetic and English of a standard higher than that required for Standard VI. of the public school syllabus (the English to include English composition, and a study of one or more of the works of some standard author or authors—not less than 800 lines of poetry or 200 pages of prose in a year, or an equivalent in poetry and prose); also regular instruction in one of the subjects prescribed in clauses 24, 25, 26, and 27 of the regulations under “The Manual and Technical Instruction Act, 1900”; and, further, in three or more of the following subjects: French, German, Latin,

Geometry, Algebra, Trigonometry, Elementary Mechanics, Book-keeping, Shorthand, Physiology, Geography, History, or other subject approved by the Minister (Geography and History must be beyond what is prescribed for Standard VI.).

N.B.—Grants for subjects taught in accordance with the regulations for “School classes” under “The Manual and Technical Instruction Act, 1900,” will be payable in addition to the grants under these regulations.

11. The programme of each pupil admitted to a free place under these regulations shall be determined by the Principal of the secondary school after consultation with the parent or guardian of the pupil: Provided that no such pupil shall be compelled to take Latin or to take more than one language besides English.

12. A free place under these regulations shall cease and determine if the holder thereof fails to pass at the end of the second year of his tenure the Civil Service Junior Examination, or such other examination as the Minister may prescribe, unless such failure was caused by illness or other sufficient cause.

13. These free places are not tenable with any other scholarships or free places except as provided in clause 3, (a), hereof.

14. Nothing in these regulations shall affect the rights of any holders of scholarships or free places prior to the date hereof.

15. Payments of the grants under section 5 of the Act shall be made at the end of each term or quarter of the secondary school, claims being made on forms supplied by the Education Department.

16. Every secondary school shall send to the Minister of Education, in the month of January or February in each year, on forms supplied by the Education Department, a return of its net endowment as defined by the Act.

17. Every endowed secondary school that does not provide free places in accordance with section 5 of the Act shall in the scholarships offered under section 4 thereof make provision—firstly, for free places for such pupils as are qualified for free places under section 3, (a), hereof; and, secondly, in regard to other scholarships, shall, in January or February, 1904, and from time to time thereafter, state for the Minister’s approval the conditions under which it proposes to grant such scholarships.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

By Authority: JOHN MACKAY, Government Printer, Wellington.