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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 57

the owner thereof or to his order when authorized so to do by the Under-Secretary, Department of Internal Affairs; provided that no fish shall be so delivered after the expiry of twenty-eight days from the date on which the open season closes in the Rotorua Acclimatization District.

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

Regulations for the Examination for Junior National Scholarships and Junior Free Places in Secondary Schools, District High Schools, and Technical Schools.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this eighth day of June, 1914.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Education Act, 1908, 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 hereby make the following regulations for the examination for Junior National Scholarships and for Junior Free Places in secondary schools, district high schools, and technical schools, and doth prescribe that this Order shall come into force on the date of the first publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

REGULATIONS FOR EXAMINATION.

EXAMINATION FOR JUNIOR NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS AND JUNIOR FREE PLACES IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS, DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOLS, AND TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.

1. THE examination for Junior National Scholarships and Junior Free Places in secondary schools, district high schools, and technical schools shall be in the subjects of the Sixth Standard of the public-school syllabus, and shall be held annually in the month of November or December at such convenient centres as the Minister of Education shall appoint.

2. Candidates for Junior National Scholarships in the examination must not be over fourteen years of age on the first day of December nearest the date of the examination, must be resident in the education district in which the scholarship is allotted, and must have been resident in New Zealand for twelve months immediately preceding that day. For the six months immediately preceding that day they must also have been under regular instruction in the subjects of the Fifth Standard or a higher standard at a school in New Zealand, being a public school, a Native school, or other school subject to inspection under the Education Act, 1908. To candidates for Junior Free Places these limitations do not apply.

3. For the examination, papers shall be set in (1) English, (2) Arithmetic, (3) Geography, (4) History and Civics, (5) Elementary Science, (6) Drawing I—free drawing, and (7) Drawing II—drawing with instruments.

4. The marks assigned to the several subjects shall be as follows: English, 300 marks; Arithmetic, 200 marks; Geography, 100 marks; and each of the other subjects, 50 marks: total, 800 marks.

5. To pass the examination a candidate must obtain not less than 75 marks in English, not less than 50 marks in Arithmetic, and a total of not less than 400 in the whole examination. No Junior National Scholarship shall be awarded to a candidate that does not pass the examination.

6. Separate papers may be set for Scholarship and Free Place purposes respectively in the several subjects or in any of them, but otherwise the conditions of qualification in the examination shall in each case be the same; provided that, if circumstances seem to warrant such a course, a somewhat lower aggregate of marks obtained by a candidate under Scholarship conditions may be accepted in qualification for a Junior Free Place.

7. In all cases a candidate that qualifies for a Scholarship shall be regarded as thereby qualifying also for a Junior Free Place.

8. The examination in English may include such a test of the candidate’s general reading and of his comprehension of English as may be found expedient. In both English and Arithmetic the examination may also include questions on the work of any lower standard. Generally the examination shall assume on the part of a candidate such general knowledge as may fairly be expected from a pupil of a Sixth Standard class who observes intelligently his surroundings and whose reading is such as to secure a fair acquaintance with current events. In any subject questions may be set having a joint relation to that subject and to any other of the school course.

9. In Geography, in History and Civics, and in Elementary Science, a sufficient choice of questions shall be given to candidates to make a reasonable allowance for varying programs in these subjects.

10. Drawing I shall be free drawing with pencil or brush, to be executed directly (so far as the general circumstances of examination permit) from a natural or fashioned object or group of objects (not more than two objects in the group), and may include elementary designs without instruments. With either Drawing II or with Elementary Science, or with both, may be associated one or more tests of an alternative character having special application to Handwork exercises in the school.

11. Candidates’ applications to be examined must be on the forms provided, and must be forwarded by their teachers to the Secretary of the Education Board of their district so as to be delivered at his office not later than the 15th day of September preceding the examination. Only one application form may be filled in by any candidate.

No application received after the date named shall be accepted without the express consent of the Education Department, which, if satisfied in any special case of the sufficiency of the explanation given for delay, may sanction a period of grace not exceeding seven days.

12. On the results of the examination in Scholarship papers, and as soon as may be after such examination, but in no case later than the 31st day of March following, Junior National Scholarships shall be awarded by Education Boards in order of merit to duly qualified candidates within the several education districts, in accordance with the provisions of section 72 of the Education Act, 1908, and to the number in each case therein defined.

13. Before any Junior National Scholarship can be awarded, the candidate must produce a certificate of birth, or in lieu thereof other sufficient evidence of his age, and must satisfy the Board in such other ways as it may require that he is in all respects qualified to receive a Scholarship.

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

Regulations for the Intermediate Examination, Competitive and Non-competitive. — Special Examination for Education Board Senior Scholarships and for Senior Free Places respectively; First Examination of Pupil Teachers.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

By his Deputy,
ROBERT STOUT.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this eighth day of June, 1914.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Education Act, 1908, 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 hereby