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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 26

tion of the school in other respects—e.g., in regard to the average number
of children present at any one time under the instruction of any teacher or
pupil-teacher. III. Marking and keeping of registers. IV. Regularity of
attendance. V. Suitability of time-tables. VI. Suitability of schemes of
work, method and quality of the instruction in general or in detail.
VII. Order and discipline, and the tone of the school with respect to
diligence, alacrity, obedience, and honour. VIII. Supervision in recess.
IX. Manners and general behaviour of the pupils. X. State of buildings,
ground, and fences. XI. Sufficiency of school accommodation. XII. Clean-
liness and tidiness of rooms and premises (including outside offices), con-
dition and sufficiency of school material and apparatus, ventilation and
warming. XIII. List of class-books used in the school. XIV. Special cir-
cumstances affecting the work of the school. XV. Instruction given to
pupil-teachers. XVI. Other topics.

13. The report shall be divided into sections, and the section relating to
    any topic in the foregoing list shall bear the number assigned to that topic
    in the list. Section 1 shall show what classes within the meaning of clause 2
    of these regulations there are in the school, whether the classes are grouped
    for instruction, and, if so, how they are grouped, and by what teacher each
    class is taught, describing each teacher by the position held in the school as
    “sole teacher,” “head teacher,” “mistress,” “first assistant,” “third-
    year pupil-teacher,” or as the case may be. Any section except sections I
    and XIII may, if the Inspector so choose, be omitted or consist of the appro-
    priate number and of a single word, such as “Satisfactory.”

14. In expressing his opinion of the value of the work done in any subject,
    the Inspector shall consider whether the subject is taken by all the pupils in
    all the classes for which it is prescribed, and also whether it is efficiently
    treated.

Standard of Exemption.

15. The “standard of exemption” under section 142 of “The Edu-
    cation Act, 1904,” shall be the Fifth Standard, and the certificate referred
    to in subsection (e) of section 142 of the said Act shall be a certificate
    of competency in the work of Standard V or a higher standard.

Certificates of Competency.

16. (i.) A “certificate of competency” means a certificate that the holder
    has fulfilled the requirements of some standard of education prescribed
    by these regulations and named on such certificate, in (1) reading, (2) writing
    and spelling, (3) composition, (4) arithmetic, and has satisfied the Inspector
    that he has received sufficient instruction in the other subjects: Provided
    that the Inspector may accept work somewhat below the requirements of
    such standard in one, but not more than one, of the subjects (2) to (4).

(ii.) A person may be a candidate for a certificate of competency on one
of the following grounds:—

(a.) That he is seeking employment in the public service or elsewhere;

(b.) That he wishes to enter a secondary school;

(c.) That he is under fourteen years of age, and that his parents wish
to obtain for him a certificate of exemption as prescribed in section
142 of “The Education Act, 1904”;

(d.) That the parent of any child is not satisfied with the classification
of such child in the school.

[NOTE.—Under (b) and (c) he must be a candidate for a certificate of
competency in Standard V.]

17. Immediately on receipt of the notice of the Inspector’s visit provided
    for in clause 1, the head teacher shall post for public information, in a con-
    spicuous place on the school premises, a notice that such visit is about to be
    made, and shall call the attention of the children thereto. The parent of
    any child of school age, or on the roll of any school, who wishes such child to
    obtain a certificate of competency must give notice of his desire in writing
    to the head teacher at least three days before such visit; this notice must
    state on which of the grounds named in clause 16 the parent wishes such
    certificate to be granted.

The head teacher shall, on the day of the visit above referred to, hand to
the Inspector lists in duplicate of those on behalf of whom notice has been
given to him of the desire to obtain certificates of competency. These
lists shall be written on forms provided by the Department.

18. The Inspector shall, at or about the date of the visit of which notice is
    given as prescribed in clause 1, arrange for the examination of such children