Feb. 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 625

Regulations.—Manual and Technical Instruction.

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 pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Education Act, 1908, and the Education Amendment Act, 1910, and of all other powers and authorities him enabling in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth, in respect of the regulations for manual and technical instruction in force on the thirty-first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and ten, hereby revoke clauses fifteen (a) and (b), twenty-one (a), twenty-five (a) and (b), twenty-seven (a) and (b), thirty-one, thirty-one (a), thirty-six, thirty-seven, forty to forty-seven inclusive, fifty, fifty-two, sixty-three to sixty-five inclusive, seventy-three, seventy-seven to seventy-seven (n) inclusive thereof; and, doth hereby make the regulations set forth in the Schedule hereto; and, with the like advice and consent, doth declare that this Order shall come into force on the date of the publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

I.—School Classes.

9. (c.) Where the instruction of a public-school class is supervised by an itinerant instructor, he shall on each occasion that he visits such class affix his dated signature on the register thereof.

10. (a.) Capitation-payments on account of school classes shall as a rule be made at the end of the year; but advance payments at the beginning of the year or interim payments during the year may be made if, in the opinion of the Minister, such payments are warranted by the circumstances. Such payments shall in no case exceed one-half of the amount obtained by multiplying the prescribed rate of capitation by the roll-number of the pupils under instruction.

(b.) For the purpose of capitation, a public-school class for instruction in elementary handwork shall be deemed to have received regular instruction throughout the school year if the instruction has been given for forty weeks.

21. (a.) Classes doing Work in other Subjects not lower than that of Standard V.

(1.) Elementary practical surveying and elementary practical mensuration.

(2.) Machine construction and drawing.

(3.) Building construction and drawing.

(4.) Free-arm and blackboard drawing and drawing from memory.

(5.) Drawing in light and shade from models or casts, or from objects of still life.

(6.) Elementary design and colour work.

(7.) Painting from nature, of flowers, or of still life.

(8.) Painting ornament in monochrome from casts.

(9.) Modelling in clay, or plasticine, or plaster.

(10.) Modelling in cardboard.

(11.) Chip-carving from pupils’ own designs.

(12.) Wood-carving.

25. (a.) (1.) Cookery.

(2.) Dairy-work.

(b.) Where special and appropriate provision has been made for the practical teaching of the above subjects, 10s. per annum for each unit of the average attendance will be paid, provided that the instruction is given to pupils of the class for not less than forty hours during the school year.

In the case of cookery a payment of 12s. per annum will be made for sixty hours’ instruction during the school year, provided that one-third of the time is given to instruction in domestic economy and domestic hygiene,