Feb. 16. THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 627

36. Except in the case of classes for teachers or of classes conducted in country districts by itinerant instructors, capitation shall not be paid on account of any class which has not received regular instruction during a period of at least ten weeks, and for at least twenty hours during the year.

37. Every student, on admittance to a technical school, shall receive a distinguishing number, to be retained by him so long as he continues to attend that school. The distinguishing number of each student is to be entered opposite his name in the register, and in the attendance-sheet of every class that he attends.

A.—Continuation Classes.

40. A “continuation class” means a special or associated class in which instruction is given in the subjects of the public-school syllabus for Standards V and VI, or in the following subjects of general or commercial education where they are not included in approved courses of technical instruction.

(1.) English, to include composition and the study of the work or works of some standard author or authors.

(2.) French, German, Italian, Maori, Latin, Greek; the teaching to include in every case a reasonable amount of continuous reading-matter, and, in the case of a living language, to be directed to the practical end of giving the pupils the power of speaking the language.

(3.) Mathematics (algebra and higher arithmetic, geometry, trigonometry, &c.).

(4.) Mensuration (as for builders, surveyors, &c.), which must include practical measurements by the pupil.

(5.) Book-keeping, précis-writing, and correspondence, shorthand, typewriting, commercial or actuarial arithmetic, commercial law or any other branch of political economy, economics of industry, commercial history, industrial history, commercial geography.

(6.) English history, civics, general history, constitutional history.

(7.) Elocution.

(8.) Vocal music, which must include singing from notes, and the elements of the theory of music.

(9.) Hygiene and ambulance-work.

(10.) Physical training.

41. Payment will not be made in respect of a recognized continuation class for any of these subjects for more than two hours a week or eighty hours a year; provided that in the case of subject (10) payment will not be made for more than one hour a week or forty hours a year, nor unless students taking the subject also attend concurrently at least one other recognized special or associated class during the same year.

42. Capitation payments on account of recognized continuation classes shall be computed at the rate of 1½d. for each hour of attendance at such classes; provided that no payment shall be made in the case of any student for more than two hundred and forty hour-attendances for all subjects altogether.

B.—Manual and Technical Classes.

43. Special and associated classes for manual and technical instruction may be held at any time of the day, and instruction may be given in one or more subjects selected from the following divisions:—

DIVISION I.

Elementary commercial subjects involving mostly mechanical operations, such as commercial arithmetic, elementary book-keeping, commercial geography, elementary correspondence and précis-writing, copying, indexing, filing, shorthand, typewriting, and the mechanical operations concerned with postage, telegraph, and banking.

DIVISION II.

Higher commercial subjects, such as correspondence and précis-writing, commercial and actuarial arithmetic, accounting, banking and currency, commercial and industrial history, commercial geography, mercantile and commercial practice and law, economics of industry and commerce.

DIVISION III.

Mathematics, including the treatment of the subject in a practical way—such treatment as, for example, is usually given under the subject of mensuration or of practical plane and solid geometry.

The various branches of natural and physical science.