APRIL 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1,189

qualified for Education Board District Scholarships. If further limitation be necessary, the Minister will take steps at his own discretion to determine which of the candidates shall receive the scholarships.

SYLLABUS OF WORK FOR JUNIOR SCHOLARS.

1. Junior scholars shall receive instruction in the following subjects:—

Boys.

(1.) English.
(2.) Arithmetic.
(3.) Military drill.
(4.) Elementary practical agriculture.
(5.) Woodwork.
(6.) Singing.

Girls.

(1.) English.
(2.) Arithmetic.
(3.) Physical drill.
(4 and 5.) Domestic science (cooking, laundry-work, housewifery, dressmaking, health).
(6.) Singing.

And in one at least of the following:—

Boys.

(1.) Maori.
(2.) Drawing (one or more branches).
(3.) Elementary mathematics.
(4.) Elementary physical measurements.
(5.) Geography.
(6.) English history.
(7.) Physiology.

Girls.

(1.) Physiology.
(2.) Geography.
(3.) Drawing (one or more branches).

2. Pupils shall also receive some instruction in health, morals, and civics.

3. Holders of scholarships shall receive instruction according to a two years’ program in the subjects above named, the standard of the work in the first year being in advance of that required for Standard V or Standard VI, as the case may be, of the Public School syllabus. The program should be arranged in order that the best qualified of the scholarship-holders may reach the standard indicated by the Public Service Entrance Examination.

4. In woodwork, the handbook on the subject issued by the Department will serve as a guide, but any suitable course will be accepted if it is directed to the practical end of giving the pupils such knowledge of principles and such practical instruction as will be of use to them as Maoris.

5. In elementary practical agriculture, the program shall be based upon the requirements for the Public Service Entrance Examination, and may be arranged so as to cover a two, or, in some cases, a three years’ course.

6. In connection with both woodwork and elementary practical agriculture, the pupils will be required to make drawings (freehand and to scale) illustrating various stages of the work, and similarly in the case of girls taking domestic science; the work thus done shall be held to be sufficient to meet the requirements in drawing.

7. The rough working drawings made in connection with the woodwork, and the pupils’ note-books containing entries of their own observations made during the year in agriculture, woodwork, or domestic science, as the case may be, should be shown to the Inspector, who shall give them due weight in forming his estimate of the value of the individual and general work of the pupils.

8. The term of each scholarship shall be two years, if the holder faithfully fulfils the prescribed conditions.

B.—SENIOR SCHOLARSHIPS.

I.—Industrial Scholarships or Apprenticeships.

1. A Senior Scholarship may be awarded by the Department to any Maori boy who—

(a.) Has obtained a certificate of proficiency in any public school, or in a Native school under the control of the Department, or in any other school for the education of Natives; and

(b.) Has received not less than one year’s training in some branch of technical work; and, further,

(c.) Notifies the Department of his desire to be apprenticed to learn some mechanical trade, to be approved by the Department.

2. The Department may in any such case arrange to devote a sum not exceeding £15 for the first year, £13 for the second year, and £12 for the third year, to assist the apprentice in obtaining clothes and paying for his board.

This allowance may be paid to the master to whom the boy is apprenticed.

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