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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 40

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

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PLUNKET, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this eighteenth day of May, 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,” 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, concerning staffs and salaries in public schools (hereinafter termed “the said regulations”), doth hereby make the additional regulations hereto annexed regarding staffs and salaries in district high schools; 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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DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOLS.

10. THE said regulations relating to average attendance at an ordinary public school shall in all respects apply to the primary department of a district high school.

11. A certificate of proficiency shall be the qualification for admission to the secondary department of a district high school:

Provided that if the number of pupils in the secondary department of a district high school would otherwise be less than 20, the Board may, at its discretion, also admit to such secondary department any pupil who has gained a certificate of competency in Standard VI; but in no case shall the attendance of any pupil be included in the yearly average attendance for the secondary department unless he has obtained at least a certificate of competency in Standard VI.

12. On the 1st day of January in each year the secondary department of any district high school shall be staffed, as provided in Part V of the Second Schedule to the Amendment Act, 1908, according to the yearly average attendance for such secondary department for the year immediately preceding.

13. (a.) Notwithstanding anything in the last preceding clause, if at the beginning of any quarter it appears that the attendance in such secondary department has increased so that the mean of the quarterly average attendance for the three quarters, or for the two quarters, or the attendance for the quarter immediately preceding, is as high as that shown in column (2), or column (3), or column (4), as the case may be, of Table C hereto, the Board may, at its discretion, make such addition to the staff as is required to bring the number of teachers up to the number prescribed for a secondary department with the average attendance shown in column (5) of that table.

Table C.

(b.) If at the beginning of any quarter it appears that the average attendance in such secondary department has decreased so that the mean of the quarterly average attendance for the three quarters immediately preceding is as low as that shown in column (2) of Table D, and that the mean for the two quarters immediately preceding is as low as that shown in column (3), and that the average attendance for the quarter immediately preceding is as low as that shown in column (4), then the Board shall reduce the staff so as to make it accord with the staff prescribed for a secondary department having the average attendance shown in column (5) of that table.

Table D.

14. Clause 13 shall affect the staff of the secondary department only during the quarter prescribed and any subsequent quarter in the same year. On the 1st January following such department shall (in accordance with clause 12 hereof) be staffed in accordance with the yearly average attendance thereat; and, further, nothing in the said clause shall be deemed to affect the salary of any member of the staff of such department who shall not have been appointed or removed thereunder.

15. In the case of the establishment of a new district high school, the average attendance of the primary and secondary departments thereof shall be found, in accordance with clause 5 of the said regulations, in the same way as if such primary and secondary departments respectively were new schools; but in no case shall any school, in consequence of this clause, be placed in a grade lower than that in which it would have been placed had the district high school not been established.

16. Every district high school shall, in accordance with section 87 of the principal Act, be under the charge of the headmaster, who shall, subject to the general control of the Board, exercise due supervision and control over the staff and the work of the secondary department, but need not himself give instruction therein.

17. The teachers of the secondary department in any district high school shall not be employed in the primary department of such school, except in so far as it may be necessary for one or more of them to give instruction during the time that the head teacher is giving instruction in the secondary department; nor shall any teacher in the primary department other than the head teacher devote any part of the ordinary school hours to the instruction of the secondary department.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Regulations as to Deer “Tags,” and as to Books to be kept by Taxidermists.

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PLUNKET, Governor.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by “The Animals Protection Act, 1908” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulations prescribing the use of tags or labels on deers’ heads, and also the keeping of certain books by taxidermists in connection with red-deer heads.

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REGULATIONS.

1. THE person authorised to issue licenses to kill deer shall also issue to each licensee a number of labels or tags equal to the total number of deer such licensee is authorised to kill.

2. Such labels or tags shall be of metal not less than 5 in. by 2½ in., and shall have printed or written thereon the name of the acclimatisation district in which the license to kill deer is to be used, also the name of the licensee and the number of the deer-shooting license issued to him for the then current year, and shall be indorsed with the name of the officer issuing the same. Such labels or tags are to be numbered consecutively from one upwards.

3. One of such labels or tags shall be affixed securely by the licensee to the head of each deer killed by him and kept so affixed.

4. Any ranger, police officer, or officer of a duly registered acclimatisation society is hereby authorised to seize and detain any deer’s head which is not duly labelled in accordance with these regulations.

5. Every taxidermist or person with whom the head of any red-deer stag is deposited for the purpose of mounting, curing, or dressing the same shall keep a book in which he shall enter the correct name, postal address, and occupation