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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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to comply with section 61 of the principal Act, but on no account will
payment be made to the Board for the salary of any teacher for a longer
period than four months after the end of the quarter in which the school
ceases to be entitled to the services of such teacher; nor, in the case of
the closing of a school, for a longer period than four months after the
closing.

8. Average daily attendance for the purposes of paragraph (b), (ii), of
   subsection (1) of section 6 of the principal Act shall be the yearly average
   attendance for the year immediately preceding.

9. The sums payable to Boards under section 6 of the principal Act
   for the salaries and allowances of teachers and pupil-teachers, as deter-
   mined by the Acts and these regulations, shall be paid to the Boards in
   monthly instalments.

PROBATIONERS.

1. On 1st January or as soon after as may be in each year,
   beginning with the year 1909, the Board may appoint one probationer
   for each twelve hundred or part of twelve hundred children in yearly
   average attendance in the district: Provided that, subject to the con-
   ditions hereinafter prescribed, the Board may in the year 1909 appoint
   double the number named above—namely, one-half as probationers of
   the second year, with a term of one year, and one-half as probationers of
   the first year, with a term of two years.

2. (a.) The Board shall select the most suitable candidates in the dis-
   trict irrespective of their place of residence, if they possess the qualifica-
   tions hereinafter prescribed; and shall appoint every candidate so selected
   to the nearest convenient school of Grade IV or a higher grade, provided
   that not more than two probationers shall be appointed in any year to
   the same school.

(b.) In general, not less than one-half of the probationers selected in
any year shall be appointed to schools of Grades IV, V, and VI.

3. (a.) No one shall be appointed as a probationer who has not passed
   the Matriculation Examination, or the Civil Service Junior Examination,
   or the examination for Senior Free Places, or who is not otherwise
   qualified, under clause 7 of the Regulations for Free Places and Scholar-
   ships at Secondary and District High Schools, to hold a senior free place
   in a secondary school.

(b.) No one shall be appointed as a probationer unless he has reached
the age of sixteen years, is of good moral character, of sound health and
good constitution, and free from all such physical defects as are incom-
patible with efficiency in teaching.

4. The term of probation shall be two years for all probationers,
   with the exception of those appointed in the year 1909 with a term of
   one year. A year means a year beginning on 1st January and ending
   on 31st December.

5. It shall be the duty of the head teacher in any school to direct the
   studies and the professional training of the probationers in that school in
   such manner as the Board determines in accordance with regulations
   approved by the Minister.

6. The remuneration payable to probationers shall be as follows:—
   First year, £20 with a boarding allowance of £30 if obliged to live
   away from home, or with an allowance of actual travelling-expenses not
   exceeding £10 per annum if obliged to travel more than four miles daily
   each way to prosecute their duties.

Second year, £25 with a boarding allowance of £30, or with a travel-
ling-allowance not exceeding £10, on the same conditions as for the first
year.

7. Every probationer who has completed his course to the satisfaction
   of the Board is eligible for admission to a training college as a student
   in Division A on the same conditions as if he had completed a course as
   pupil-teacher.

8. Subject to the Acts and these regulations, the Board of each
   education district may make its own regulations relating to probationers,
   and such regulations shall come into operation as soon as they have
   received the approval of the Minister.

GRANTS TO SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

In the case of any secondary school giving free places in accordance
with the Acts and regulations thereunder, the net annual income per head
for the purpose of section 10 of the Amendment Act and the Fifth
Schedule thereto shall be determined in accordance with paragraph (f)
of such Schedule on 1st January in each year, and the grants payable
thereunder on account of free pupils for attendance at such secondary
school for any part of that year shall be calculated on the net annual
income per head so determined.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.