JAN. 7.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

The Education Act, 1914.—Payments to Education Boards; Grading of Schools; Staffs, Salaries, and Allowances; Training Colleges; Probationers; Pupil-teachers.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this twenty-first day of December, 1914.
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

In pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Education Act, 1914 (hereinafter referred to as the Act), 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 revoke all regulations in force on the coming into operation of this Order relating to—
(I.) Payments to Education Boards;
(II.) Attendance Registers and Returns;
(III.) Grading of Public Schools, Staffs, and Salaries of Teachers;
(IV.) Training Colleges;
(V.) Probationers; and
(VI.) Pupil-teachers;
and in lieu thereof doth hereby make the regulations hereinafter set forth; and, with the like advice and consent, doth prescribe that this Order shall come into force on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

REGULATIONS.

I. PAYMENTS TO EDUCATION BOARDS.

1. On the 1st January in each year the schools in each education district shall be grouped in the five groups named in the Eighth Schedule to the Act, according to the yearly average attendance for each school for the year immediately preceding.
2. The general grants named in paragraph (c) (iii) of subsection (1) of section 6 of the Act for any education district in any year shall be calculated in accordance with the yearly average attendance of the year for which the payments are made: Provided that interim payments shall be made monthly, based on the grouping made on the 1st January of such year and on the yearly average attendance for the year immediately preceding: Provided, further, that in the case of a new school opened during the year payment shall be made at the rate determined by the average attendance for that year, and that in respect of every such new school and of each school closed during the year payment shall be made for every quarter during which the school was open not less than half the number of school days.
3. The sums payable to Boards under section 6 of the Act for the salaries and allowances of teachers, pupil-teachers, and probationers shall be paid to the Board in monthly instalments.
4. The moneys payable to the Boards for scholarships under sections 101 to 106 of the Act shall be paid to the Boards in quarterly instalments.
5. Any other moneys appropriated by Parliament as grants to the Boards shall be paid to the Boards in such proportions and at such times as shall be determined by the Minister.
6. Grants for special purposes shall be applied by Boards solely and exclusively to those purposes for which such grants have respectively been made, and the Minister may from time to time require from Boards statements showing in detail the application of any such special grants.

II. ATTENDANCE REGISTERS AND RETURNS.—AVERAGE ATTENDANCE.

I. Attendance Registers and Returns.

1. (1.) The head teacher of every public school shall enrol in an admission register, in the form provided by the Department, the name of each child in the school, with such other particulars as are required by the register.
   (2.) Such register may consist of a record card for every pupil in the form provided; but in such case this form of record must be consistently adopted throughout the school, a proper receptacle must be provided therefore, and due precautions must be taken to secure the completeness and permanence of the record.