April 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1109

regulations, it admits to such free places all qualified pupils who wish to attend such secondary school, called in clauses 2 to 20 hereunder “the secondary school”; provided that if any pupil be resident outside the education district in which the secondary school is situated it shall be at the option of the governing body of such secondary school to admit or to refuse to admit such pupil to a free place.

Junior Free Places in Secondary Schools and District High Schools.

3. Subject to these regulations a pupil shall be qualified to be a junior free pupil or the holder of a junior free place under the Act, if—

(a.) He is the holder of an Education Board Scholarship, a Junior National Scholarship, or any other scholarship that the Minister shall approve for this purpose; provided that the value of any such scholarship is not greater than £40 per annum in the case of any pupil who is obliged to live away from home in order to attend the secondary school or district high school, or than £10 per annum in any other case; or if

(b.) He has qualified for an Education Board Scholarship, or a Junior National Scholarship, or has qualified for a free place in the special examination for junior free places held by the Education Department; or if

(c.) Being not over fifteen years of age on the 1st December preceding the date of his admission to a free place, he has obtained a certificate of proficiency as defined by regulations under the Act.

4. With regard to those qualified under clause 3 hereof—

(i.) The secondary school shall admit to a junior free place any pupil qualified under (a) or (b), unless such pupil can attend as a junior free pupil a secondary school nearer his home.

(ii.) The secondary school shall also admit any pupil qualified under (c), unless such pupil can attend a district high school or unless he can attend a secondary school nearer his home.

(iii.) But the secondary school may admit, subject to such other conditions, if any, as the governing body shall see fit, any pupil qualified under (c).

(iv.) Every district high school shall admit as a junior free pupil any pupil qualified under any of the paragraphs of clause 3 hereof, and no such school shall admit to a junior free place any pupil not so qualified.

5. (i.) A junior free place at a secondary school is tenable for two years from the 1st January preceding the actual date of admission as a free pupil, but in case of special merit or in the case of a holder who was under thirteen years of age at the 1st December preceding such date of admission the Minister may, on the receipt of a recommendation from the principal of the secondary school and from the Inspector-General of Schools, extend the tenure of the free place for a third year. In no case, however, shall a junior free place be tenable after the holder has passed his seventeenth birthday.

(ii.) A junior free place at a district high school is tenable until the holder has reached his seventeenth birthday, but no longer.

6. The secondary school or district high school shall give to each holder of a junior free place under these regulations instruction in English (Group I), in one of the subjects (2) or (3) of Group II, and in not less than three other subjects chosen from Groups III, IV, and V in such a way that the total number of units of work in a year is, in general, not less than 20, one subject at least being chosen from Group IV (see Schedule hereto). Further, the school shall give to each free pupil suitable physical training.

NOTE.—This clause is not intended to be construed in such a way as to limit unduly the discretion of the principal of a school in determining the programme of a pupil.

SCHEDULE.

Group I. — (1.) English, as for the Civil Service Junior Examination, including English composition and the study of one or more of the works of some standard author or authors (not less than 600 lines of poetry and 100 pages of prose in a year) 3, 4, 5, or 6 units.

Group II. — (2.) Arithmetic ... ... ... 3 units.
or (3.) Elementary mathematics — viz., arithmetic, geometry, algebra ... 3, 4, 5, or 6 units.