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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 13

such course of instruction to be approved by the Minister. Where the ordinary staff of the school is unable to provide instruction in cookery or dairy-work, payments of 12s. 6d. or 15s. per annum, as the case may be, for cookery and of 12s. 6d. for dairy-work may be made for each unit of the average attendance. Subject to the approval of the Minister, instruction in dairy-work may be combined with instruction in elementary agriculture, provided that not less than twenty hours’ instruction in each subject is given to the class during the school year. Capitation in the case of an approved class taking such combined instruction may be computed at half the rates prescribed for dairy-work and agriculture respectively.

27. (a.)
    DIVISION I.
    (1.) Elementary chemistry.
    (2.) Elementary physics.
    (3.) Elementary zoology.
    (4.) Elementary botany.
    (5.) Elementary geology

DIVISION II.
(1.) Elementary agriculture.
(2.) Elementary physical measurements.

(b.) Where special and appropriate provision has been made for teaching the above subjects, the following payments will be made if the conditions are observed: For any subject in Division I, 2s. 6d. will be paid for each unit of the average attendance at the class, provided that instruction is given to the class for not less than one hour a week regularly throughout the school year; for subjects (1) and (2) of that division 5s. will be paid if instruction is given regularly for two hours a week throughout the school year.

For each subject in Division II an initial payment of 10s. per head up to £7 10s. will be made on the first recognition of the class. In addition, capitation at the rate of 2s. 6d. per annum will be paid for each unit of the average attendance at the class, and in the case of subject (1) at the rate of 5s. per annum where the instruction is supervised by an approved itinerant instructor, provided that instruction is given for not less than forty hours during the school year.

In the case of an approved class for elementary agriculture in a secondary school, or in the secondary department of a district high school, payments of 5s. or 7s. 6d., as the case may be, may be made if instruction is given regularly for eighty hours during the school year. (See also clause 25 (b) hereof.)

II.—“Special” and “Associated” Classes.

31. A record of attendances at a class other than a class at a day technical school (as defined in clause 81 hereof) must be kept in the special register provided by the Department, and must be supervised by the controlling authority, or by some one appointed by the controlling authority, who shall record therein the number of pupils present at the time of each visit, attesting the same by a dated signature. The presence or absence of each pupil at a class shall be recorded in the register within fifteen minutes after the time appointed for the meeting of such class. The instructions printed in the register must be strictly observed. Failure to observe them may lead to a reduction in or to the withholding of the capitation earned by the class concerned.

32. (a.) No attendances shall be recorded in the special register for any special, associated, or college class in respect of any person on the roll of any public school or secondary school, nor in respect of any person under fourteen years of age unless such person is (i) the holder of a free place under these regulations, or (ii) is able to produce evidence that he has reached a standard of education equivalent to that of the Fifth Standard as defined in the public-school syllabus. In the case of (ii), no attendances at a class held after 6 p.m. shall be recorded.

(b.) The attendances at a class in a day technical school shall be recorded in the public-school register of daily attendance every morning and every afternoon; provided that in no case shall the register be marked later than one hour and a half before the close of morning or afternoon school, as the case may be. The register shall be marked and kept in accordance with the directions printed thereon, and shall be preserved by the controlling authority or the managers, as the case may be, for not less than five years. The register is to be forwarded to the Department if asked for.