Mar. 24.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 905

11. (1.) The Board shall hold its first meeting at such time and place as the Minister shall appoint.
    (2.) At such meeting, and thereafter at the annual meeting, and at such other times as may be necessary, the Board shall elect a Chairman.
    (3.) During the first election of Chairman a person appointed by the Minister shall preside, and during every subsequent election of Chairman the Secretary to the Board of Governors shall preside. The person presiding shall have no vote; ties shall be decided by lot.
    (4.) The Chairman’s ordinary term of office shall be one year, and he shall be eligible for re-election.
    (5.) If the Chairman shall from any cause cease to be a member of the Board or resign the office of Chairman, the Board shall as soon thereafter as conveniently may be elect another member of the Board to be Chairman in his stead, who shall hold office only until the next annual election of a Chairman as hereinbefore provided.

12. At all meetings of the Board the Chairman, or in his absence such member of the Board as the majority of the members assembled shall choose, shall preside, and such Chairman or presiding member shall have a deliberative vote, and in all cases of equality of votes shall also have a casting-vote.

At all meetings of the Board a majority of all the Governors then in office shall constitute a quorum.

13. Subject to the provisions of this scheme, there shall be vested in the Board the whole control and management of the Palmerston North High School, and also the entire superintendence over all the affairs, concerns, and property thereof, with full power to appoint and dismiss all masters, teachers, lecturers, examiners, and other necessary officers and servants; and in all cases unprovided-for by the Act and the regulations thereunder, or by this scheme, it shall be lawful for the Board to act in such manner as shall appear to it best calculated to further the purposes intended to be served by the establishment of such school; and the Board shall, subject to the Act and the regulations thereunder, and to this scheme, have full power from time to time to make, alter, and rescind by-laws and regulations for defining the course of study and education in the school, and also for regulating the discipline and examination of the same, the conditions upon which the scholars shall be admitted, and the fees to be paid in respect of such admission, and, in general, touching all other matters, purposes, and things regarding the school.

14. (1.) The curriculum shall be framed so as to provide suitable secondary education for pupils intended for professional, agricultural, commercial, technical, and domestic occupations, and may include, subject to clause 15 hereof, with the sanction of the Board, any or all of the subjects named in the regulations under the Act, and such other subjects as the Minister may from time to time approve.
    (2.) The programme of each pupil shall be determined by the headmaster of the school after consultation with the parents or guardian of the pupil; but no pupils shall be compelled to take Latin or to take more than one language besides English.
    (3.) The net fees to be charged to those who are not holders of scholarships or free places shall be £10 per annum.
    (4.) The school year shall consist of three terms of about thirteen weeks each.
    (5.) The headmaster shall examine the school at the end of each term, provided that it shall not be necessary for him to examine the school in any term in which it is examined by some other person appointed by the Minister or the Board.

15. Subject to the general direction of the Governors—
    (1.) The headmaster shall have control of the school buildings and premises and of the apparatus and furniture thereof.
    (2.) He shall have the power to recommend the appointment or dismissal of assistant teachers or of other officers of the school, and to allot their several duties; and no assistant teacher or other officer of the school shall be appointed until the headmaster has been consulted.
    (3.) He shall have the power in case of grave neglect of duty or of gross misbehaviour to suspend any assistant teacher or other officer, but shall forthwith report his action to the Chairman, who shall thereupon confirm or overrule his action until the next meeting of the Board, when the matter may be determined; but the action of the headmaster shall hold good until the Chairman or the Board has determined the matter.
    (4.) He shall be supreme over the discipline, and may suspend any pupil, reporting his action to the Board at their next meeting, and the action of the headmaster shall hold good until the Board has come to some determination in regard to the matter. He shall not expel any pupil without the sanction of the Board.
    (5.) He shall regulate all text-books, methods, and organization in accordance with clause 14 hereof, and, subject to the same clause and to the regulations under the Act, shall determine the course of study for each pupil. No prize shall be awarded without his approval.

16. The Board may license hostels or boardinghouses for the accommodation of pupils that have to live away from home, and may place such hostels or boardinghouses under the charge of teachers of the school or other suitable persons, and may provide for the inspection of such hostels or boardinghouses by any person appointed by the Board.

17. The Board may appoint a Secretary and a Treasurer, and define the duties attached to such positions.

Subject to the provisions of this scheme, the Board shall make, and may from time to time revoke, vary, and make fresh regulations for the conduct of business at its meetings, for determining how meetings shall be convened, and for such other like matters as may be requisite for the conduct of the business of the Board.

18. Minutes of the proceedings of the Board shall be regularly entered in a proper book to be kept for that purpose, and at every meeting of the Board the minutes of the previous meeting shall be read over and signed by the Chairman of the meeting at which the same shall be read, and the minutes when so signed shall be held to be a true statement and record of the proceedings of the Board for all purposes whatever.

19. The Board shall keep full and accurate accounts of all its receipts, disbursements, assets, liabilities, and engagements, and shall, on or before the 31st day of January of each year, cause the same to be audited by such person as His Excellency the Governor appoints; and copies of such accounts, when audited, shall be forwarded to the Minister of Education, together with a report of the proceedings of the Board during the previous year.

20. All things required by the Act or this scheme to be done by the Board shall be done in accordance with and in pursuance of a resolution passed at a meeting of the Board, and no act of the Board shall be invalid or liable to be questioned on the ground that one or more than one of the members thereof was or were incapacitated, or had ceased to hold office, or on the ground that the seat of any member was vacant.

21. The rents, profits, and income of all real and personal estate which may be vested in the Board, or granted or acquired as a site or sites or otherwise for the benefit of the school, or given, devised, or bequeathed to the Board for the benefit of the school without any trusts or powers of a different nature being expressed in the instrument so giving, devising, or bequeathing to the Board, and all reserves of land that may be hereafter made for the benefit of the school, shall be held and dealt with by the Board under and subject to the provisions of “The High School Reserves Act, 1880.”

22. The rents, profits, and annual income of all real and personal estate that may be vested in the Board, together with all funds which may from time to time be derived from fees or payments made in respect of pupils attending the school, together with any annual or other allowance that may be made by the General Assembly or the Government of New Zealand, shall be applied by the Board for the maintenance of the school, and the payment of the salaries and expenses connected therewith, and for prizes, exhibitions, and scholarships for the pupils therein: Provided that the Board shall have power to set apart, if it see fit, out of the said rents, profits, and annual income such part as it considers advisable, either as an addition to the capital fund, which shall then be invested in the manner hereinafter mentioned and dealt with as part of such capital fund, or as reserve fund to meet extraordinary expenses, which shall be invested and dealt with in such manner as the Board directs.

23. With respect to any moneys bequeathed or given to the Board for the school, and with respect also to all rent, profit, and annual income set apart under the preceding section, the Board shall have power to invest the same in the purchase or upon first mortgages of freehold land in New Zealand, or upon the stocks, bonds, bills, or debentures of the Government of the Colony of New Zealand, or issued by any local authority therein under any Act of the General Assembly, and may from time to time vary such investments.

24. The Board may, out of such moneys as may come into its hands by virtue of this Act or otherwise for the benefit of the school, expend any sum or sums in purchasing land and erecting and maintaining suitable buildings and premises thereon for use as school buildings, and may, subject to the approval of the Minister, expend any sum or sums in purchasing land and erecting and maintaining suitable buildings thereon for use as boardinghouses, or residences for the masters, teachers, or other officers employed in connection with the school.

25. (1.) The school shall be open at all times to inspection by the Inspector-General of Schools, and by any other person directed by the Minister to inspect the same.
    (2.) Such inspection may include examination of the pupils in the subjects of instruction taught in the school.

Approved. R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Education.