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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 53

teacher thereat, upon receipt of a certificate under the hand of the Director
of Education, or upon being otherwise sufficiently satisfied as to the number
of half-day attendances to be recorded for such child on account of such
examination or class as aforesaid, shall add the total of such attendances to
the total of those previously entered in the register of attendance belonging
to the said school. Every such certificate when received shall be fastened
into the said register, and shall not be removed.

7. On the day on which the head teacher of a school first knows that a
   pupil has been definitely removed from his school, such head teacher shall
   record the removal in the admission register and in the register of daily
   attendance. He shall record also that a pupil has left the school when such
   pupil has been absent for any period of sixty-five consecutive school days.
   Such pupils shall forthwith be considered as ceasing to belong to the school,
   and in any computation of attendance for any period thereafter their
   names shall not be taken into account in any way.

8. The head teacher of every school shall, as soon as possible after the
   end of each quarter, send to the Department, on the form provided, a return
   of attendance for such school for the quarter.

9. At the beginning of each year a new register of daily attendance
   shall be opened. When the number of scholars attending, or likely to attend,
   is large, it will be convenient to keep one book for boys and another for girls.
   The names of children shall be entered in order according to their respective
   classes.

10. In cases where from any cause, such as bad weather, the school
    has not been open in the morning, the teacher shall do what he can to en-
    courage an afternoon attendance, if possible, in order that the school work
    may be carried on regularly and efficiently. The holding of the afternoon
    school must in no way be made to depend on the morning attendance.

11. When no school work has been done on an ordinary half-day the
    teacher shall give a circumstantial and satisfactory statement in the log-
    book, showing that the total absence of pupils has not been owing to any
    act or default of his. The opportunity to attend must be offered in good
    faith twice a day.

12. The teacher shall post his quarterly returns within three days after
    the last school day in each quarter. No salary shall be paid to any teacher
    if and so long as his returns are more than one month in arrear. Returns
    are to be considered as in arrear until they have reached the office in a per-
    fectly correct form.

13. Fraudulent entries in any register or return may lead to summary
    dismissal.

In connection with the marking and keeping of the registers the following
offences shall be regarded as inexcusable :—
(a.) Not providing in the time-table a fixed time in the morning and
another in the afternoon for the marking of the roll.
(b.) Not marking the roll at the time fixed by the time-table.
(c.) Marking an absent pupil as present.
(d.) Not entering the total of the morning’s marks as soon as the marking
for the morning is done, and similarly with respect to the after-
noon.
(e.) Marking the register otherwise than in ink.

II. AVERAGE ATTENDANCE.

1. The yearly average attendance for any school shall be the mean of
   the quarterly average attendances thereat for the four quarters ending
   31st December.

Provided that if the average attendance at any school for any one
quarter is such as to make the yearly average attendance less than the
minimum of the grade or subgrade in which the school would be placed
if it were graded on the mean of the quarterly average attendances for the
other three quarters of the year, then the mean of such last-named three
quarterly average attendances shall be deemed to be the yearly average
attendance for such school.

Provided, further, that if it is shown to the satisfaction of the Minister,
on the certificate of the District Health Officer, that an infectious disease
of an epidemic character has during one or two quarters been locally pre-
valent to the extent of affecting 10 per cent. or more of the children in any
school, then the mean of the quarterly average attendance for the remaining
three or two quarters of the year shall be deemed to be the yearly average
attendance for such school.

2. (1.) The quarterly average attendance for the Native schools grouped
   for the Dominion shall be the total of the quarterly average attendances
   of all the schools.