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not received regular instruction during a period of at least
ten weeks, and for at least twenty hours during the year.
Nor shall capitation be paid on account of any student for
more than eight hundred hour-attendances per annum for
all subjects altogether. Nevertheless, after the first day of
July, one thousand nine hundred and eight, payment shall
not be made on account of any student taking a course of
commercial instruction for more than four hundred hour-
attendances per annum for all subjects altogether.
40. A “continuation class” means a special or associated
class commencing not earlier than 4 o’clock in the afternoon
of any working-day of the week except Saturday, or at any
hour on Saturday, and in which instruction is given in the
ordinary public-school subjects or other subjects of general
or commercial education, such as the following:—
(1.) The subjects of the public-school syllabus for Stan-
dards V and VI.
(2.) English to include composition and the study of a
work or works of a standard author or authors.
(3.) French, German, Italian, Maori, Latin, Greek;
the teaching to include in every case a reasonable amount
of continuous reading-matter, and, in the case of a living
language, to be directed to the practical end of giving the
pupils the power of speaking the language.
(4.) Mathematics (algebra and higher arithmetic, geo-
metry, trigonometry, &c).
(5.) Mensuration (as for builders, surveyors, &c.), which
must include practical measurements by the pupils.
(6.) Book-keeping, précis-writing and correspondence,
*shorthand, typewriting, commercial and actuarial arith-
metic, commercial law, or any other branch of political
economy, economics of industry, commercial history, indus-
trial history, commercial geography, when claims cannot
be made for these subjects under the head of “technical
instruction.”
(7.) Any natural, physical, or chemical science, treated
practically, although not fulfilling the conditions laid down
for such science as a branch of technical instruction. Not
less than one-third of the time must, however, be devoted to
practical work.
(8.) English history; general history; constitutional his-
tory.
(9.) Elocution.
(10.) Vocal music, which must include singing from notes
and the elements of the theory of music.
(11.) Linear drawing by the aid of instruments; freehand
outline drawing of rigid forms from flat examples; freehand
outline drawing from the “round.”
45. Classes for commercial instruction to be approved by
the Minister as “technical classes” must provide for
regular instruction in one or other of the following courses:—
(1.) Commercial correspondence and précis writing, and
office routine (as for correspondence clerks).
(2.) Commercial or actuarial arithmetic, and book-
keeping (as for accountants).
(3.) Mercantile and commercial } as for shipping and
practice other clerks.
(4.) Mercantile commercial law
(5.) Other similar courses, or combinations of courses
(1) to (4).
Capitation at the rate prescribed for technical classes shall
not be paid on account of the attendances of any student
unless he has received regular instruction throughout the
year and for not less than two hours a week in the subjects
comprising his course of commercial instruction.

IV. REGULATIONS FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF MANAGERS OF
ASSOCIATED CLASSES.

50. For all other associated classes the number of
    managers to represent contributing bodies shall be fixed
    annually by the Minister, subject to these regulations and to
    the terms of section 174 of the Act. In estimating for the
    purposes of such representation the proportion of the cost of
    maintenance of classes borne by the several contributing
    bodies there shall be included all moneys contributed
    during the year ending on the last day of the month pre-
    ceding the month in which the elections are held, and
    all rents and benefits derived during the same period from
    lands and buildings contributed, and from endowments, or
    otherwise, used or employed for the purposes of such classes.
    The managers shall be elected at specially convened meet-
    ings of the several bodies concerned during the month of
    January or February or March in each year. The con-
    trolling authority shall, within fourteen days after the com-
    pletion of the election, forward to the Minister a notification
    of the names of the managers elected, with the names of one
    or more persons authorised to pay and to receive moneys on
    their behalf.

VIII. FREE PLACES.

77. (c.) Every holder of a junior free place granted under
    these regulations shall receive in each year instruction in—

(i.) *English of a standard higher than that required for
Standard VI of the public-school syllabus, or in
commercial English, including précis-writing and
correspondence, or in one of the languages named
in division (3) of clause 40 of these regulations;
the English or commercial English, as the case
may be, to include English composition and a
study of one or more than one of the works of
some standard author or authors—not less than
600 lines of poetry and 100 pages of prose in each
year.
(ii.) Arithmetic as for Standard VII of the public-school
syllabus, or mathematics, or practical mathe-
ematics or mensuration, or commercial or actuarial
arithmetic.
He must receive the instruction referred to in (i) and (ii)
at classes established by the controlling authority, at each of
which he must make not less than twenty hour-attendances
during each year.
He must also take in each year one or more subjects of
technical instruction in accordance with clauses 43 or 47
or one of the courses of commercial instruction named in
clause 45 of these regulations, and must make in respect of
each class for technical instruction that he attends not less
than twenty hour-attendances during the year.
The instruction he receives during the two years that he
holds a junior free place must have reference to a definite
course of technical instruction. No capitation under clause
77 (b) hereof will be paid in respect of attendances at classes
which have not a bearing on such courses.
77. (d.) A junior free place is tenable for two years from
the 1st January preceding the actual date of admission as a
free pupil, but a pupil shall cease to hold a junior free place
if he fails to make in either year of his tenure the minimum
number of hour-attendances at each class he attends in the
subjects prescribed in clause 77, (c), hereof; and, further,
shall not be eligible to hold any other free place, whether at
a technical school, a secondary school, or a district high
school, unless such failure is due to a cause deemed by
the Minister to be sufficient or unavoidable. A pupil who
has completed his tenure of a junior free place at a technical
school shall not be eligible to hold a junior free place at
a district high school or a secondary school, and, vice versa,
a pupil who has completed his tenure of a junior free place
at a district high school or at a secondary school shall not
be eligible to hold a junior free place at a technical school.
77. (i.) Any holder of a free place who after his admission
to a technical school shall remove more than five miles
from the technical school at which his free place is held
may continue his free place at any other technical school, or
at a secondary school, or at a district high school, subject to
the regulations governing free places at such school: Pro-
vided that, except in the case of such removal, the holder of
a free place at a technical school shall not be entitled to
transfer his free place to a secondary school or to a district
high school.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1907.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-
third day of March, 1908.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. HALL-JONES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section twelve of the Land Laws Amend-
ment Act, 1907 (hereinafter referred to as “the said
Act”), it is enacted that the Governor may, by Order in
Council, determine by regulations the powers and duties of
arbitrators, their mode of appointment, the procedure to be
observed in any arbitration relative to a renewable lease
under the said Act, and the payment of the costs thereof:
Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the
power and authority conferred by the said Act, and acting
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Coun-
cil of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following
regulations for the purposes of the said Act, and doth hereby
declare that such regulations shall come into force on the
day of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette:—

REGULATIONS.

1. In these regulations, if not inconsistent with the con-
   text,—