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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 25

compelled to take Latin or to take more than one language besides English.

(3.) The net fees to be charged to those who are not holders of scholarships or free places shall be £10 per annum.

(4.) The school year shall consist of three terms of about thirteen weeks each.

(5.) The headmaster shall examine the school at the end of each term, provided that it shall not be necessary for him to examine the school in any term in which it is examined by some other person appointed by the Minister or the Board.

19. Subject to the general direction of the Governors, the headmaster shall have the following power :—

(1.) He shall have control of the school buildings and premises and of the apparatus and furniture thereof.

(2.) He shall have the power to recommend the appointment or dismissal of assistant teachers or of other officers of the school, and to allot their several duties ; and no assistant teacher or other officer of the school shall be appointed until the headmaster has been consulted.

(3.) He shall have the power in case of grave neglect of duty or of gross misbehaviour to suspend any assistant teacher or other officer, but shall forthwith report his action to the Chairman, who shall thereupon confirm or overrule his action until the next meeting of the Board, when the matter may be determined ; but the action of the headmaster shall hold good until the Chairman or the Board has determined the matter.

(4.) He shall be supreme over the discipline, and may suspend any pupil, reporting his action to the Board at their next meeting, and the action of the headmaster shall hold good until the Board has come to some determination in regard to the matter. He shall not expel any pupil without the sanction of the Board.

(5.) He shall regulate all text-books, methods, and organization in accordance with clause 14 hereof, and, subject to the same clause and to the regulations under the Act, shall determine the course of study for each pupil. No prize shall be awarded without his approval.

20. The Board may license hostels or boardinghouses for the accommodation of pupils that have to live away from home, and may place such hostels or boardinghouses under the charge of teachers of the school or other suitable persons, and may provide for the inspection of such hostels or boardinghouses by any person appointed by the Board.

21. The rents, profits, and income of all real and personal estate which may be vested in the Board, or granted or acquired as a site or sites or otherwise for the benefit of the school, or given, devised, or bequeathed to the Board for the benefit of the school without any trusts or powers of a different nature being expressed in the instrument so giving, devising, or bequeathing to the Board, and all reserves of land which may be hereafter made for the benefit of the school, shall be held and dealt with by the Board under and subject to all such powers, provisions, and conditions as are contained in the Education Reserves Act, 1908, as if the school were a high school within the meaning of that Act.

22. Subject to the subsequent clauses of this scheme, the rents, profits, and annual income of all real and personal estate that may be vested in the Board, together with all funds which may from time to time be derived from fees or payments made in respect of pupils attending the school, together with any annual or other allowance that may be made by the General Assembly or the Government of New Zealand, shall be applied by the Board for the maintenance of the school, and the payment of the salaries and expenses connected therewith, and for prizes, exhibitions, and scholarships for the pupils therein : Provided that the Board shall have power to set apart, if it sees fit, out of the said rents, profits, and annual income such part as it considers advisable, either as an addition to the capital fund, which shall then be invested in the manner hereinafter mentioned and dealt with as part of such capital fund, or as reserve fund to meet extraordinary expenses, which shall be invested and dealt with in such manner as the Board directs.

23. With respect to any moneys bequeathed or given to the Board for the school, and with respect also to all rent, profit, and annual income set apart under the preceding section, the Board shall have power to invest the same in the purchase or upon first mortgages of freehold land in New Zealand, or upon the stocks, bonds, bills, or debentures of the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand, or issued by any local authority therein under any Act of the General Assembly, and may from time to time vary such investments.

24. The Board may, out of such moneys as may come into its hands by virtue of this Act or otherwise for the benefit of the school, expend any sum or sums in purchasing land and erecting and maintaining suitable buildings and premises thereon for use as school buildings, and may, subject to the approval of the Minister, expend any sum or sums in purchasing land and erecting and maintaining suitable buildings thereon for use as boarding-houses for the pupils, or as residences for the masters, teachers, or other officers employed in connection with the school.

25. (1.) The school shall be open at all times to inspection by the Inspector-General of Schools, and by any other person directed by the Minister to inspect the same.

(2.) Such inspection may include examination of the pupils in the subjects of instruction taught in the school.

Dated at Wellington, this 29th day of March, 1911.

GEO. FOWLDS,
Minister of Education.

Notice of Intention to take Land in Block XI, East Cape Survey District, for the Purpose of a Native School.

NOTICE is hereby given that it is proposed, under the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, to execute a certain public work, to wit, the construction of a Native school in Block XI, East Cape Survey District, and for the purposes of this public work the land described in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken. And notice is hereby further given that the plan of the land so required to be taken is deposited in the post-office at Rangitukia, and it is there open for inspection; and that all persons affected by the execution of the said public work or by the taking of the said land should, if they have any well-grounded objections to the execution of the said public work or to the taking of such land, set forth the same in writing, and send such writing, within forty days from the first publication of this notice, to the Minister of Public Works, Wellington.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land required to be taken :—

In the Land District of Hawke’s Bay; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 28929, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured as above.

As witness my hand, at Wellington, this twenty-eighth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

R. McKENZIE,
Minister of Public Works.

New Zealand Schools of Mines.—Further amended Scholarship Regulations.

Mines Department,
Wellington, New Zealand, 28th March, 1911.

1. SIX Scholarships are offered annually for competition by Students attending Schools of Mines within the Dominion—one for Otago, two for the West Coast of the Middle Island, and three for the North Island. Of these, four will be for Students in gold-mining subjects, and two for coal-mining subjects.

2. The Scholarships will be granted to those candidates who comply with the conditions and obtain the highest percentage of marks, which must not be less than specified in Reg. 9.

3. Should the holder of a Scholarship attend the University of Otago no class fees will be charged, but should he elect to attend any other institution which is affiliated to the University of New Zealand he must pay his own class fees.