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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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attend such secondary school, called in clauses 2 to 20 hereunder “the secondary school”; provided that if any pupil be resident outside the education district in which the secondary school is situated it shall be at the option of the governing body of such secondary school to admit or to refuse to admit such pupil to a free place.

Junior Free Places in Secondary Schools and District High Schools.

2. Subject to these regulations a pupil shall be qualified to be a junior free pupil or the holder of a junior free place under the Act, if—

(a.) He is the holder of an Education Board Scholarship, a National Scholarship, a Queen’s Scholarship, or any other scholarship that the Minister shall approve for this purpose; provided that the value of any such scholarship is not greater than £40 per annum in the case of any pupil who is obliged to live away from home in order to attend the secondary school, or than £10 per annum in any other case; or if

(b.) Being not over fourteen years of age on the 1st December preceding the date of his admission to the secondary school, he has qualified for an Education Board Scholarship, or he has qualified for a free place in the examination for Junior National Scholarships or in the special examination for junior free places held by the Education Department; or if

(c.) Being over fourteen years of age, he has qualified for a free place in such special examination; or if

(d.) Being not over fourteen years of age on the 1st December preceding the date of his admission to the secondary school, he has obtained a certificate of proficiency as defined by regulations under “The Education Act, 1904”; or if

(e.) Being over fourteen years of age, he has obtained such a certificate of proficiency.

3. (i.) With regard to those qualified under clause 2 hereof—The secondary school shall admit any free pupil qualified under (a) or (b) unless such pupil can attend as a junior free pupil a secondary school nearer his home.

(ii.) The secondary school shall also admit any pupil qualified under (c) or (d) unless such pupil can attend a district high school or unless he can attend a secondary school nearer his home.

(iii.) But the secondary school may admit all free pupils qualified under (c) and (d).

(iv.) Further, the secondary school may admit, subject to such other conditions as the governing body thereof shall see fit, any free pupil qualified under (e); provided that the total number of pupils so admitted shall not exceed 10 per cent. of all the free pupils admitted under the Act.

4. A junior free place at a secondary school is tenable for two years from the 1st January preceding the actual date of admission as a free pupil, but in no case after the holder has passed his seventeenth birthday.

5. The secondary school shall give to each holder of a junior 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 600 lines of poetry and 100 pages of prose in a year; also regular instruction in one of the subjects prescribed in clauses 23 (a) (1), 24, 25, 26, and 27 of the Regulations for Manual and Technical Instruction under “The Education Act, 1904”; and, further, in two or more of the following subjects: French, German, Latin, elementary mathematics, elementary mechanics, book-keeping, shorthand, physiography, geography, history, any subject prescribed in clause 21 of the Regulations for Manual and Technical Instruction, or any other subject approved by the Minister.

6. (i.) Every district high school shall admit as a junior free pupil any pupil qualified under paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d), or (e) of clause 2 hereof.

(ii.) A junior free place at a district high school is tenable until the holder has reached his seventeenth birthday, but no longer.

Senior Free Places.

7. Subject to these regulations a senior free place is tenable by any pupil,—

(a.) Who is the holder of an Education Board Scholarship, a National Scholarship, a Queen’s Scholarship, or any other scholarship that the Minister shall approve for this purpose: provided that the value of any such scholarship is not greater than £40 per annum in the