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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Special and Central Examinations.

23. The Inspector may also hold special examinations of candidates, whether of school age or not, for certificates of competency or for certificates of proficiency at any place and time that may seem fit to him, and may require candidates for such special examinations to give fourteen days’ notice of their intention to be examined.

By or on behalf of each candidate at such special examinations there shall be paid to the Inspector, or to the Secretary of the Education Board, if the Board shall so direct, the following fees, namely: If there be only one candidate, £1; if there be two candidates, 10s. for each candidate; if there be three candidates, 6s. 8d. for each candidate; if there be four or more candidates, 5s. for each candidate. But no fee shall be payable in the case of any one examined at a school at the time of the Inspector’s visit to such school.

24. The Inspectors of the several districts shall make an annual return, on a form furnished by the Department, showing with respect to each public school subject to their inspection the number of pupils in the several classes P to S7, and the numbers present at the time of the annual examination, as indicated in the class-lists submitted for their signature under the provisions of clause 6. The return shall also include for each school a statement of the average ages of the pupils in each of the classes at the time of such annual examination, and a summary of numbers and ages for the district as a whole. The return shall be accompanied by a report on the public schools of the district, dealing, for the schools generally, with such of the topics named in clause 12 as it may seem expedient to include.

General.

25. The knowledge of the work of any class in English and arithmetic shall be deemed to presuppose a knowledge of the work of any lower class.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under “The Education Act, 1904.”—Secondary Education.

PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this second day of April, 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, 1904,” the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Dominion, doth hereby repeal the regulations for free places in secondary schools and district high schools and for scholarships under section eighty-six of the Act, made by Order in Council dated the thirtieth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and five, and amended by Order in Council dated the twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand nine hundred and six, and doth substitute in lieu thereof the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto; and with the like advice and consent doth prescribe that this Order shall take effect on the first publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

NOTE.—The Act referred to herein is “The Education Act, 1904,” and its amendments.

1. A free place under these regulations is tenable at a secondary school or a district high school.

NOTE.—Such a free place is to be regarded as alternative with (not in addition to) a free place held on a corresponding qualification under the Regulations for Manual and Technical Instruction.

2. A secondary school shall be held to provide free places within the meaning of section 87 of the Act if, in accordance with the Act and these