Dec. 18. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3193

Regulations under the Education Acts.—Training Colleges.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this seventeenth day of December, 1908.

Present:
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Education Act, 1908, and the Education Amendment Act, 1908, the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Dominion, doth hereby revoke all regulations heretofore made under the authority of the said Acts, or any Act thereby repealed, regarding Training Colleges, and in lieu thereof doth make the regulations heretofore annexed; and, with the like advice and consent, doth prescribe that this Order shall come into force on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and nine.

CONTROL AND ORGANIZATION.

1. The Education Board of any district in which any training college is situated, hereinafter called “the Board,” shall have the entire control and management of such college, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained.
   The “university district” shall mean the university district in which the training college is situated, and the “university college” shall mean the university college in such university district.

2. For every training college there shall be a Committee of Advice, consisting of the Chairman or other member of the Board, an Inspector of the Board, a representative of the professorial board of the university college, and a representative of the other Education Boards (if any) in the university district, to be chosen, if there be more than one other Board, in such manner as the Minister of Education shall determine.
   The Board shall, as soon as possible, consider and give due weight to such representations and recommendations as the Committee of Advice may from time to time lay before it. A record shall be kept by the Secretary of the Board of such representations and recommendations, and of the action taken by the Board thereon.
   The Committee of Advice shall meet at least once in each year at a time to be fixed by the Committee. Meetings may be called at any other time on the request of a member of the Committee, or on the initiative of the chairman.

3. Every training college shall have a normal or practising school connected with it. The normal school shall in general consist of three parts,—
   (a.) A “main school” organized as an ordinary public school with not more than 450 children in average attendance: Provided that no pupil-teachers shall be employed on the staff.
   (b.) A “model school,” organized as an ordinary public school under one sole teacher, or as a side school with thirty-five to forty children in average attendance.
   (c.) Secondary classes, worked under the same conditions as to admission and programme of work as the secondary classes of a district high school, but with an average attendance not exceeding fifty. These classes shall be considered to be part of the main school referred to in subclause (a) hereof.
   There may be added to the normal school with the approval previously obtained of the Minister :—
   (d.) A junior kindergarten class or classes, containing not more than forty children between the ages of three and five.

4. The organization of the normal school and the salaries of the staff shall be approved by the Minister of Education; but in no case shall the salaries be less than those payable under the Education Amendment Act, 1908, and regulations thereunder.

5. In addition to the staff of the normal school there shall be a principal of the training college, and such other lecturers or instructors as the Minister may from time to time approve. The principal shall be appointed by the Board, subject to the approval of the Minister.