FEB. 16.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

617

Regulations under the Education Act.—Training Colleges.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this thirteenth day of February, 1911.

Present:

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

IN exercise and pursuance of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Education Act, 1908, the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Dominion, doth hereby revoke the regulations made by Order in Council of the seventeenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and eight, regarding training colleges, and in lieu thereof doth make the regulations hereto annexed; and, with the like advice and consent, doth prescribe that this order shall come into force on the date of the first publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

TRAINING COLLEGE REGULATIONS.

CONTROL AND ORGANIZATION.

1. THE Education Board of any district in which any training college is situated, hereinafter called “the Board,” shall have the entire control and management of such college, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained.

The “university district” shall mean the university district in which the training college is situated, and the “university college” shall mean the university college in such university district.

2. For every training college there shall be a Committee of Advice, consisting of the Chairman or other member of the Board, an Inspector of the Board, a representative of the Professorial Board of the university college, and a representative of the other Education Boards (if any) in the university district, to be chosen, if there be more than one other Board, in such manner as the Minister of Education shall determine; provided that if the university district includes education districts in both Islands, a representative of other Education Boards may be chosen for each Island.

The Committee of Advice shall meet at least twice in each year. The first meeting shall be called by the Chairman of the Board, and shall be held not later than the month of March. Any subsequent regular meeting shall be at a time to be fixed by the Committee, but other meetings may at any time be called on the joint request of two members of the Committee or on the initiative of the Chairman.

3. Every training college shall have a normal or practising school connected with it. Every such normal school shall include—

(a.) A “main school,” organized in the same way as a district high school, with not more than 450 children in average attendance, of which not more than 50 shall belong to the secondary department.

(b.) A “model school,” organized as a rural public school of Grade III under a sole teacher, with 35 to 40 children in average attendance.

To a normal school so constituted there may, with the approval previously obtained of the Minister, be added,—

(c.) A second “model school,” organized—

(i.) As a rural public school of Grade IV under two teachers, with 70 to 80 children in average attendance; or

(ii.) As a junior school, with 35 to 40 children of classes P to S. 2 in average attendance; or

(iii.) As a rural public school of Grade III, as for (b) above.

(d.) A junior kindergarten class or classes containing not more than 40 children between the ages of three and five, but children so enrolled shall not be reckoned in computing the average attendance of the normal school.