Dec. 22.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3311

Regulations under the Education Acts.—Attendance, Staffs, and Salaries in Public Schools.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-first day of December, 1909.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by “The Education Act, 1908,” and “The Education Amendment Act, 1908,” the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, in regard to the regulations made under the authority of the said Acts on the seventeenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and eight, and on the eighteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and nine, concerning staffs and salaries in public schools (hereinafter termed “the said regulations”), doth hereby make the amendments in the said regulations as in Schedule A hereto, and also make the additional regulations in Schedule B hereto; and, with the like advice and consent, doth prescribe that this Order shall come into force on the day of publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

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SCHEDULE A.

Clause 1 (b) is hereby amended by adding the words “Only one such substitution can be made in any one year.”

Clause 2 is hereby amended by omitting the words “subgrade to which a school belongs within such grade,” and substituting therefor the words “numbers of teachers and pupil-teachers in a school.”

Clause 3 (a) is hereby amended by omitting the words “as therein mentioned,” and substituting therefor the words “ascertained accordingly.”

Clause 4 is hereby amended by adding the following proviso: “Provided that if a school in Grade O has an average attendance for the preceding quarter of 16, or for two, three, or four quarters immediately preceding of 14, or 12, or 9, as the case may be, the school shall be placed in Grade 1, and salary shall be paid accordingly.

Clause 5 (b) is hereby amended by striking out the words “and the” after the word “staff,” and inserting after the word “salaries” the words “and allowances.”

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SCHEDULE B.

18. SHOULD a side school be separated from a main school during any year and be opened as a mixed school in terms of Part I of the Second Schedule, it shall be treated for salary purposes as a new school under clause 5. On the 1st January of the following year the two schools shall be graded in accordance with the provisions of clause 2: Provided that in computing the average attendance of the main school for any period before the date of the separation of the schools the side school shall, in accordance with paragraph (d) of Part III of the Second Schedule of the Amendment Act, be deemed to have been part of the main school. • The staff and salaries of the main school shall not by reason of the separation be affected during the year in which the change is made.

19. In the case of a side school being attached to a main school during any year the grade of the main school shall remain the same for that year, and the staff shall be increased in accordance with Table B of clause 3 and Part III (e) of the Second Schedule of the Amendment Act.

20. Should two full-time schools be grouped together during any year as part-time schools, such group shall be treated for salary purpose in the same manner as a new school under clause 5 hereof.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.