Mar. 1. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 655

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously
believing the same to be true, and by virtue of the provisions
of an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand intituled
“ The Justices of the Peace Act, 1882.”

Declared at , this day of , one
thousand nine hundred and , before me—
Warden, Mining Registrar, Magistrate, Justice of the Peace,
Postmaster, or Constable.

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Form No. 7.

Application for a Temporary Gold-dealer’s License.

To the Warden of the Mining District at .
I, , of , do hereby make application, in ac-
cordance with the provisions of section 57 of “ The Mining
Act Amendment Act, 1905,” for a temporary license to deal
in gold. My present address for carrying on business is at
, in the said mining district. I have [not] pre-
viously held a license for such purpose.
Dated this day of , 190 .
Signature of applicant : .
Received this application at o’clock .m. on the
day of , 190 , with a fee of ten shillings.
, Warden.

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Form No. 8.

Temporary Gold-dealer’s License.

I, , being the Warden of the Mining Dis-
trict, do, by virtue of the powers vested in me under sec-
tion 57 of “ The Mining Act Amendment Act, 1905,” grant
to a temporary gold-dealer’s license to deal in gold
at , in the said mining district, and at no other
place, for a period of month from the day of the
date hereof, and no longer.

Given under my hand, at , this day
of , one thousand nine hundred and .
, Warden.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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“ The Education Act, 1904.” — Attendance Registers and
Returns.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seven-
teenth day of February, 1906.

Present:

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE R. J. SEDDON PRESIDING IN
COUNCIL.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities
vested in him by “ The Education Act, 1904,” His
Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the colony, doth hereby amend the
regulations relating to attendance registers and returns
made by Order in Council dated the sixteenth day of March,
one thousand nine hundred and three, by inserting after
clause three the words in the Schedule hereto ; and, with the
like advice and consent, doth prescribe that this Order shall
come into force on the date of the first publication thereof
in the New Zealand Gazette.

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SCHEDULE.

3A. IF any child whose name is entered upon the register
of attendance of any school shall be duly attending at an
examination conducted by the Department of Education
or the Education Board of the district or the University
of New Zealand, or at a camp of instruction for public-
school cadets duly authorised by the Minister of Education,
then the time necessarily spent by such child at such
examination or camp of instruction or in travelling thereto
shall be reckoned as time spent in attendance at such
school; and the head teacher thereat, upon receipt of a
certificate under the hand of the Secretary to the Education
Board as to the number of half-day attendances to be
recorded for such child on account of such examination or
camp as aforesaid, may add the total of such attendances
to the total of those previously entered in the register of
attendance belonging to the said school. Every such certi-
ficate when received shall be fastened into the said register,
and shall not be removed.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Regulations under the Education Acts.—Attendance, Staffs,
and Salaries in Public Schools.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-
seventh day of February, 1906.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities
vested in him by “ The Education Act, 1904,” the
Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the colony, doth hereby revoke all regulations
heretofore made under the authority of the said Act, or any
Act thereby repealed, regarding staffs and salaries in public
schools, and in lieu thereof doth make the regulations hereto
annexed ; and, with the like advice and consent, doth pre-
scribe that this Order shall be deemed to have come into
force on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred
and six.

REGULATIONS.

1. For the purposes of “ The Education Act, 1904,” and the
   Acts amending the same (hereinafter called “ the Acts”), the
   average attendance to be taken as the basis of computations
   for any school year shall, except where it is prescribed other-
   wise, be the average daily attendance for the year ended 31st
   December immediately preceding, called hereinafter “ the
   yearly average attendance.” The yearly average attendance
   for any school or department thereof shall be found by add-
   ing together the average daily attendances thereat for the
   four quarters ending 31st December, as ascertained at the
   end of each quarter, and dividing the total by four ; and for
   any district it shall be the total of the yearly average at-
   tendances of all the schools in such district; the result in
   each case shall be expressed as a whole number correct to
   the nearest unit, one-half being reckoned as a whole.

2. (a.) On the 1st January in each year the schools in each
   district shall, according to the yearly average attendance of
   each school respectively, be placed in the grades named in
   the scale of staffs and salaries in Part I of the Schedule to
   “ The Education Act Amendment Act, 1905 ” (hereinafter
   called “ the Schedule ”).

(b.) If the average attendance at any school for any quarter
is less than two-thirds of the average weekly roll-number for
such quarter, or is such as to place the school in a grade
lower than that in which it would be placed by the mean of
the average attendances for the other three quarters of the
year, or if there be in any quarter less than thirty half-days
on which the average attendance is at least half the number
of the children on the roll, then, in order to find the yearly
average attendance, there may, at the option of the Board,
be substituted for the average attendance for such first-
named quarter either the average attendance for the corre-
sponding quarter of the preceding year or the average attend-
ance for the quarter ending 31st December of the preceding
year, and the yearly average attendance thus found shall be
in lieu of the yearly average attendance as defined in clause 1
hereof.

3. If in any of the four cases hereinafter in this clause set
   forth the average daily attendance at a school shall increase
   as described therein, the Board may at its discretion make
   such addition to the staff as will bring it into accord with
   the staff provided for in Part I of the Schedule for a school
   of the grade to which it shall be advanced, viz. :—

(a.) A school placed on the 1st January in a grade not
higher than grade 4, which at the beginning of any subse-
quent quarter has had an average attendance of—

51 for the quarter immediately preceding, or
47 “ two quarters “
43 “ three “

shall, with the limitation prescribed by clause 6 hereof, be
reckoned to have thereafter the yearly average attendance
of a school in grade 5.

(b.) A school placed on the 1st January in a grade not
higher than grade 8, which at the beginning of any sub-
sequent quarter has had an average attendance of—

110 for the quarter immediately preceding, or
100 “ two quarters “
95 “ three “

shall, with the limitation prescribed by clause 6 hereof, be
reckoned to have thereafter the yearly average attendance
of a school in grade 9.

(c.) A school placed on the 1st January in a grade not
higher than grade 9 or grade 10, which at the beginning of
any subsequent quarter has had an average attendance ex-
ceeding the maximum for either of such grades by—