Oct. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2497

XII. COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE.

1. All provisions of “The Education Act, 1908,” that relate to the attendance of children at school shall apply to Maori children, and children residing in the Chatham Islands.

2. All the powers and functions possessed by an Education Board, or by the Chairman, or Secretary, or Truant Officer thereof, under sections 149 to 158 of the said Act may, with the necessary modifications, be exercised in the case of Native schools and schools in the Chatham Islands by the Inspector-General of Schools or the Secretary for Education.

XIII. 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. (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.

(c.) Further, for the average attendance of any two quarters a similar substitution, at the discretion of the Minister, may, mutatis mutandis, be made in the case of any school in regard to which it is shown to his satisfaction that an infectious disease of an epidemic character has during the period or periods concerned been locally prevalent to the extent of affecting 10 per cent. or more of the children of school age.

6. On the 1st of January in each year schools shall be classified in the grades and subgrades named in the First Schedule hereto according to the yearly average attendance for each school for the year immediately preceding:

Provided that the grade of a school shall not be reduced unless such attendance or the mean of the attendance for the two years or for the three years immediately preceding the said 1st of January is as low as is indicated in Table A.