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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(b.) The salary of a caretaker appointed to have custody of the
school buildings and to perform all or any of the duties
indicated above; rent of caretaker’s quarters, and all re-
pairs to the same.

(c.) The cost of water-supply to school baths.

C. Further, if provision has been made for the cost of all the items
specified in A, School Committee allowances may be expended as the
Board shall direct for school libraries, for pictures for the school walls,
for asphalting and other improvement of the school premises.

AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE.

Average daily attendance for the purposes of paragraph (b), (ii),
of subsection (1) of section 6 of the Education Act, 1908, shall for any
quarter be the total average attendance for the quarter immediately
preceding.

CERTIFICATES OF SECONDARY INSTRUCTION.

Intermediate Certificate.

1. To pupils taking a secondary-school course who, after having
   gained a certificate of proficiency, or after having passed the special
   examination for Junior Free Places, have satisfactorily completed at
   a secondary school or its equivalent approved by the Inspector-General
   of Schools a two-years course of secondary instruction in accordance
   with the conditions set forth in clause 6 and clause 7 (c) of the Regula-
   tions for Free Places, certificates of the satisfactory completion of
   such a course shall be issued at the conclusion of the period to which
   they refer. Such certificates shall be termed “intermediate certifi-
   cates,” and shall be granted only under the authority or with the
   concurrence of the Inspector-General of Schools, who shall satisfy
   himself in all cases through the report of the principal of the school
   or otherwise that the conditions have been duly complied with.

Leaving Certificate of the Lower Grade (Lower Leaving Certificate).

2. Under the same authority, or with a like concurrence, and
   subject to similar conditions governing the tenure of Junior and
   Senior Free Places in secondary schools, certificates, to be termed
   “Leaving Certificates of the Lower Grade,” or, briefly, “Lower Leav-
   ing Certificates,” shall also be issued to pupils who have satisfactorily
   completed a three-years course of secondary instruction at an ap-
   proved school, being either a secondary school or its equivalent:
   Provided that the standard of work in the classes in which the pupil
   is placed during the last year of the course is at least that of cor-
   responding subjects in the examination for a teacher’s certificate of
   Class D: Provided further that the units of work satisfactorily com-
   pleted during the course shall be not less than 56, and shall include not
   less than 12 units in English, 9 units in arithmetic (or 12 in mathe-
   matics, including arithmetic), and 8 units in science.

Leaving Certificate of the Higher Grade (Higher Leaving Certificate).

3. Further, under the same authority, or with a like concurrence,
   and subject to similar conditions, Leaving Certificates of the Higher
   Grade, or, briefly, Higher Leaving Certificates, shall be issued to
   pupils who have satisfactorily completed at such a school a four-
   years course of secondary instruction: Provided that the standard
   of work in the classes in which the pupil is placed during the last year
   is not lower than that of the Matriculation Examination of the Uni-
   versity of New Zealand for the time being prescribed: Provided
   further that the units of work satisfactorily completed during
   the course shall be not less than 75, and shall include not less
   than 16 units in English, 16 units in mathematics, 16 units in one of
   the languages Latin, Greek, French, German, and 12 units in science.

General.

4. A unit of work shall be taken, in consonance with the terms
   of the Free Place Regulations, to denote school class-work of one
   hour per week regularly throughout a school year.

5. These certificates may be obtained by any candidates who fulfil
   the required conditions, whether they have been holders of free places
   or not.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.