May 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1821

Regulations for the Intermediate Examination.—Special Examination for Senior Free Places.

LIVERPOOL, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this seventeenth day of May, 1915.

Present:

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, 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 the regulations for the Intermediate Examination, Competitive and Non-competitive, comprising the special examination for Education Board Senior Scholarships and for Senior Free Places, and for the First Examination of Pupil Teachers, made by Order in Council on the eighth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and substitute in lieu thereof the regulations hereinafter set forth; and doth hereby declare that this Order shall come into force on the date of the first publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

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REGULATIONS.

INTERMEDIATE EXAMINATION.—SPECIAL EXAMINATION FOR SENIOR FREE PLACES.

1. An examination to be termed the Intermediate Examination shall be held annually in the month of November or December at such convenient centres as the Director of Education shall appoint, and shall be open to candidates of either sex who desire to obtain a qualification by examination for a Senior Free Place in a secondary school, district high school, or technical school, or a qualification equivalent thereto for some other recognized public purpose.

2. The examination shall in general be held at the same time and places as the Public Service Entrance Examination.

Candidates’ Notices.

3. Every candidate for the Intermediate Examination must give notice to sit for such examination. Such notice must be on the form provided, and must be addressed to the Director of Education, and sent so as to be delivered at the office of the Education Department, Wellington, not later than the 8th day of September preceding the examination. All such notices shall include the names of the optional subjects selected by the candidate.

These provisions notwithstanding, late applications received after the 8th day of September and on or before the 22nd day of September may be accepted by the Education Department, provided that the application is in each case accompanied by a receipt for a late fee of 10s. paid to the Public Account at some branch of the Bank of New Zealand.

4. A candidate at the Intermediate Examination may not at the same time be a candidate for a Senior National Scholarship or for the Public Service Entrance Examination.

A candidate who qualifies in the Senior National Scholarship Examination, or who passes the Public Service Entrance Examination, shall be deemed to have passed the Intermediate Examination.

Selection of Subjects.

5. Subject to any limitation hereinafter made, every candidate in the Intermediate Examination shall be examined (a) in the two subjects named below as constituting Group I of the examination schedule; (b) in one subject to be chosen by the candidate from Group II; and (c) in any two or more subjects to be chosen by the candidate from Group II or from Group III, or from both, in accordance with such schedule, but so that the total possible maximum of marks assignable in all the subjects in which he is to be examined shall not exceed 2,200 :