Feb. 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 623

The Education Act, 1908.—Incidental Expenses of School Committees; Average Daily Attendance; Certificates of Secondary Instruction.

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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.

BY virtue of the powers vested in him by the Education Act, 1908, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Dominion, doth hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto, (a) defining incidental expenses of schools for the purposes of section fifty-two of the said Act as amended by section four of the Education Amendment Act, 1910, and also (b) manner of computing average daily attendance for the purposes of section six of the first-named Act; (c) providing for the issue of certificates of secondary instruction: 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.

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SCHEDULE.

INCIDENTAL EXPENSES OF SCHOOLS.

A. THE incidental expenses of School Committees within the meaning of section 4 of the Education Amendment Act, 1910, shall include expenditure under the following heads:—

(1.) Cleaning—namely, the complete and regular cleaning and keeping in order of buildings, furniture, fixtures, apparatus, and appliances in all the school premises, including class-rooms, teachers’ rooms, passages, lavatories, libraries, laboratories, workshops, outbuildings, drains, water-tanks, wells, and other appurtenances of the school premises (exclusive of repairs rendered necessary by fair wear-and-tear); the performance of sanitary and other services, the cost of requisites for cleaning; and the cost of fumigation when ordered by the Health Officer or otherwise deemed necessary.

(2.) Heating—namely cost of fuel and other items connected with the heating of the school premises, sweeping chimneys, replacing of coal-scuttles, fire-irons, &c.

(3.) Lighting, water-service, and sanitary service: all expenditure on these items when necessary (excluding cost of instalment or replacement of fittings, and cost of water-supply to school baths).

(4.) Grounds: repair and keeping in order of the school grounds, fences, hedges, gates, and paths (including the clearing of gorse, broom, briar, and all noxious weeds, but not including the cost of replacing worn-out fences and gates, nor the repair and keeping in order of the teacher’s garden or of the school glebe).

(5.) Repairs of all buildings, furniture, fixtures, apparatus, and appliances on school premises that are rendered necessary by wilful or careless damage, and generally all small repairs other than those due to fair wear-and-tear, fire, earthquake, or storm.

(6.) Stationery: the cost of all stationery such as ink, pens, slates, slate-pencils, erasers, chalk, blackboard dusters, blotting-paper, and other similar requisites, except paper and exercise-books used in school for school purposes, and all paper required for examination purposes; cost of stationery used for the transaction of the business of the School Committee.

B. Further, the incidental expenses of School Committees within the meaning of the said section 4, may include, at the discretion of the Board,—

(a.) The cost of all paper and other stationery used in school for school purposes.