(6.) “the child has obtained a certificate of competency in
the Fifth (or a higher) Standard.”
2. The certificate given to the head teacher of a school
other than a public school under section 143 of “The
Education Act, 1904,” exempting ten or more children from
attendance at a public school shall be in the following
form:

Form B.
“The Education Act, 1904,” Section 143.

GENERAL CERTIFICATE OF EXEMPTION FROM ATTENDANCE
AT A PUBLIC SCHOOL.

THIS is to certify that after due inquiry it has been made
to appear to the Education Board of the District of
that the children whose names are indorsed hereon, being
residents of the school districts named in each case, are on
the roll of [Name of school], and that efficient and regular
instruction is given thereat.

This certificate therefore exempts the said children from
attendance at a public school, subject to the provisions of the
above-recited Act, for the period of twelve months from the
date hereof.

Given under my hand, at
Chairman or Secretary of Education Board.
ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations.--Manual and Technical Instruction.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-
third day of May, 1908.
Present :
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities
conferred upon him by "The Education Act, 1904,”
and of all other powers and authorities him enabling in this
behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of
New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby, in
respect of the regulations made by Order in Council dated
the twenty-third day of March, one thousand nine hundred
and eight, under the authority of the Act first hereinbefore
mentioned, revoke clauses twenty-five, (b), and thirty-six
thereof, and in lieu of the said clauses doth make the regulations
set forth in the Schedule hereto ; and with the like
advice and consent doth declare that this Order shall come
into force on the date of the publication thereof in the New
Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

1. SCHOOL CLASSES.

2. (b.) WHERE special and appropriate provision has been
   made for the practical teaching of these subjects, 10s. per
   annum will be paid for each unit of the average attendance
   at a class for either subject, provided that instruction is
   given to pupils of the class for not less than forty hours
   during the school year. Nevertheless, where the Minister
   is satisfied that the circumstances warrant it, a payment
   of 5s. may be made for twenty hours; where the ordinary
   staff of the school is unable to provide instruction in these
   subjects, payments of 15s. or 7s. 6d. per annum, as the case
   may be, may be made for each unit of the average attendance,
   except that after the first day of January, one thousand
   nine hundred and nine, the rates of payment shall be 12s. 6d.
   and 6s. 3d. per annum respectively. Subject to the approval
   of the Minister, instruction in dairy-work may be combined
   with instruction in elementary agriculture, provided that
   not less than twenty hours’ instruction in each subject is
   given to the class during the school year. Capitation in the
   case of an approved class taking such combined instruction
   may be computed at the rates prescribed in this clause,
   and in clause 27, (b), for classes receiving twenty hours’
   instruction during the year in dairy-work and elementary
   agriculture respectively.

II. “SPECIAL” AND “ASSOCIATED” CLASSES.

36. Except in the case of classes for teachers or of classes
    conducted in country districts by itinerant instructors, capi-
    tation shall not be paid on account of any class which has
    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
January, one thousand nine hundred and nine, 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.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Roads known as King and Queen Streets, in Cook
County, to be County Roads.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-
third day of May, 1908.
Present :
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him
by “The Public Works Act, 1905,” and of all other
powers in anyway enabling him in this behalf, His Excel-
lency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and
declare that the roads in Cook County described in the
Schedule hereto shall, on and after the date of this Order
in Council, be county roads.

SCHEDULE.

KING AND QUEEN STREETS, MOTU VILLAGE.

All that portion of road in the Hawke’s Bay Land District,
known as King Street, in the Motu Village, commencing
at its junction with the Gisborne to Opotiki Road, about
25 chains north from where the most northern corner of
Section 4, Block III, Motu Survey District, strikes the
Gisborne to Opotiki Road, and proceeding from the first-
named point in an easterly direction for a distance of 17}
chains until its junction with the western boundary of
Section 6, Block III, Motu Survey District.

Also all that road in the Hawke’s Bay Land District,
known as Queen Street, in the Motu Village, from its
junction with King Street, and proceeding thence in a north-
erly direction till it junctions with the Gisborne to Opotiki
Road, being a distance of about 7} chains.

As the said roads are more particularly delineated on the
plan marked R. 9641B, deposited in the office of the Chief
Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land
District, and thereon shown in pink colour.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Declaring Parts of Oliver Road, in Cook County, to be a
County Road.

PLUNKET, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

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

Present :
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR J. G. WARD, K.C.M.G.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and in exercise of the powers vested in him
by “The Public Works Act, 1905,” and of all other
powers in anyway enabling him in this behalf, His Excel-
lency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive
Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby order and declare
that the road described in the Schedule hereto shall, on
and after the date of this Order in Council, be a county
road.

SCHEDULE.

OLIVER ROAD.

All that portion of road in the Hawke’s Bay Land District,
known as Oliver Road, commencing at a point about 30
chains south-east from the south-western corner of Section 9,
(school reserve), Block XV, Motu Survey District, where
it crosses the Waikohu River, and continuing thence in an
easterly direction for a distance of 80 chains; also all that
portion commencing at a point about four miles further on