Mar. 4.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 659

Regulations under the Education Act.—Staffs, Salaries, and Allowances, Native Schools.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of February, 1909.

Present:

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

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Education Act, 1908, 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 make the following regulations regarding staffs, salaries, and allowances in Native schools; and, with the like advice and consent, doth prescribe that this Order shall come into force on the first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and nine.

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REGULATIONS.

STAFFS, SALARIES, AND ALLOWANCES IN NATIVE SCHOOLS.

1. The salaries and allowances of head teachers of Native schools shall be the same as are prescribed in the case of public schools by the Education Amendment Act, 1908, as set down in the First and Second Schedules hereto, provided that in schools of Grade 1 the salary of the head teachers shall be the salary of Subgrade 1B of Grade 1.

2. The number of assistant teachers in every school shall be such as is prescribed for the average attendance thereat in the First Schedule hereto.

3. The salaries and allowances of assistant teachers shall be in accordance with the First Schedule hereto.

4. In regard to the salaries and allowances of head teachers and assistant teachers the following provisions shall have effect:—

(i.) The provisions of section 7 of the Education Amendment Act, 1908, shall, mutatis mutandis, be applied.

(ii.) The salaries payable under the amendment of the Native Schools Code of January, 1907, shall be deemed to be the salaries under the Education Act, 1908.

(iii.) The note to Part 2 of the First Schedule to the Education Amendment Act, 1908, shall, in the case of teachers of Native schools, not apply till the 1st January, 1911, and then not so as to reduce thereby the salary of any teacher appointed before that date below the salary payable to him on the 31st December, 1910.

5. Before the appointment of any assistant is made, a head teacher may recommend for the approval of the Minister some suitable person to fill the vacant position, but such recommendation shall not be held to limit the discretion of the Minister.

6. (a.) The average attendance to be taken as the basis of computations for any school year shall, except where it is prescribed otherwise, be the average daily attendance for the year ended 31st December immediately preceding, called hereinafter “the yearly average attendance.” The yearly average attendance for any school shall be found by adding together the average daily attendances thereat for the four quarters ending 31st December as ascertained at the end of each quarter, and dividing the total by four. The result in each case shall be expressed as a whole number correct to the nearest unit, one-half being reckoned as a whole.

(b.) If the average attendance at any school for any quarter is less than two-thirds of the average weekly roll-number for that quarter, or if there be in any quarter less than thirty half-days on which the average attendance is at least half the number of the children on the roll, then in order to find the yearly average attendance, there may at the option of the Minister be substituted for the average attendance for such first-named quarter either the average attendance for the corresponding quarter of the preceding year or the average attendance of the quarter ending 31st December of the preceding year, and the yearly average attendance thus found shall be in lieu of the yearly average attendance as defined in subclause (a) hereof.