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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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Group III. — (4.) Latin ... ... ... 3, 4, or 5 units.
(5.) Greek ... ... ... "
(6.) French ... ... ... "
(7.) German ... ... ... "
(8.) Maori... ... ... ... "
Group IV. — (9.) Geography ... ... ... 2 or 3 units.
(10.) Elementary mechanics ... ... "
(11.) Heat and light ... ... "
(12.) Electricity and magnetism ... "
(13.) Geology ... ... ... "
(14.) Botany ... ... ... "
(15.) Zoology ... ... ... "
(16.) Physiology ... ... ... "
(17.) Elementary physical measurements "
(18.) Elementary practical agriculture... "
(19.) Elementary dairy-work (as prescribed for the D examination) "
(20.) A combined elementary course in agriculture and dairy-work ... "
[This course cannot be counted if (18) or (19) is taken.]
(21.) Elementary hygiene, including elementary physiology, with instruction in “health” and in “first aid” ... ... ... 2 or 3 units.
(22.) Domestic science, including cookery, dressmaking (or advanced plain needlework), and housewifery ... "
NOTE.—To gain credit for any of the subjects (10) to (22), each pupil must give to individual practice at least half the time devoted to instruction. Such individual practice must not occupy less than thirty minutes in any one lesson.]
Group V.—(23.) Commercial geography ... ... 1 or 2 units.
[Being part of subject (9) this cannot be counted if (9) is taken.]
(24.) Elementary hygiene (if less than a complete course of 2 or 3 units is taken) ... ... ... 1 or 2 units.
(25.) Cookery ... ... ... "
(26.) Dressmaking or advanced plain needlework ... ... ... "
[(25) or (26), being part of subject (22), cannot be counted if (22) is taken.]
(27.) English history and civics ... "
(28.) Shorthand ... ... ... "
(29.) Book-keeping and commercial correspondence ... ... ... "
(30.) Woodwork or ironwork... ... "
(31.) Any one or two branches of drawing (as for the Civil Service Junior Examination) ... ... "
(32.) Any other branch of drawing, or any other subject in clause 21 of the Manual and Technical Instruction Regulations ... ... "
(33.) Any other subject approved by the Minister.
The work in any of the subjects (where not otherwise indicated) should be equivalent at least to that prescribed in the syllabus of the Civil Service Junior Examination, so far as that is applicable.
NOTE.—(i.) A “unit” denotes one hour a week regularly throughout the school year, provided that in the case of subjects (25) and (26) two hours a week for half a year may be counted as a unit.
(ii.) No credit will be given in any subject, for the purpose of clause 7, (c), for work in any year of less amount than the minimum number of units shown in the Schedule above; but, subject to that condition, two lessons of forty minutes each may be counted as 1·3 units, three lessons of forty-five minutes each as 2·3 units, five lessons of fifty
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Education Act 1904, Secondary Education, Subjects, Units, Syllabus, Civil Service Junior Examination, Manual and Technical Instruction Regulations