May 20.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1825

may, with the consent of the Director of Education, be forthwith terminated, or it may be suspended or otherwise dealt with as he may direct.

9. Should a scholarship-holder, owing to serious illness or accident not due to the holder’s culpable carelessness, negligence, or misconduct, be incapacitated from fulfilling for the time being the conditions of his scholarship, the scholarship, subject to the provisions of section 105 of the said Act, may at the discretion of the Director of Education he held in abeyance for any period not exceeding one year.

10. If during the currency of a scholarship the parents or guardians of the holder remove to another education district within New Zealand, the scholarship shall be tenable at an approved school in such other education district in all respects as if it had been originally awarded within that district, and the sums payable to the holder shall be adjusted accordingly.

If the parents or guardians cease to reside in New Zealand the scholarship shall lapse.

11. Unless under exceptional circumstances, and with the express consent of the Director of Education previously obtained, no person who has been the holder of a Junior or Senior National Scholarship can again become a candidate for a scholarship of the same class.

12. The tenure of a scholarship shall commence on the 1st day of January following the qualifying examination.

EXAMINATION FOR JUNIOR SCHOLARSHIPS.

13. Examination-papers for Junior National Scholarships shall be set in (1) English, (2) Arithmetic, (3) Geography, (4) Elementary Science and Nature-study, (5) History and Civics, (6) Drawing (free drawing and drawing with instruments, two papers).

14. (a.) In both English and Arithmetic the papers may include questions on the work of any standard not higher than the Sixth Standard.

(b.) In English the papers may include such a test of the candidate’s general reading and of his general comprehension of English as may be found expedient.

(c.) In Geography, in History and Civics, and in Science the papers shall contain a choice of questions sufficient to make reasonable allowance for the varying programs in these subjects.

(d.) In Science the papers shall cover such a range of subjects as, in either rural or urban schools, are usually taught under the heading of nature-study, elementary science, health, &c., in Standards V and VI, and may include alternative questions in such subjects as are commonly recognized for pupils of the same stage under the “Regulations for Manual Instruction”—e.g., woodwork, cookery, dairy-work, laundry-work, and elementary agriculture.

(e.) In Drawing I the paper shall contain questions on free drawing with pencil or brush to be executed directly, so far as the general circumstances of the examination permit, from a natural or fashioned object or from a group of not more than two objects, and may contain also questions on elementary design. In Drawing II the paper shall include alternative questions having special application to the subjects of handwork as prescribed under the “Regulations for Manual Instruction.”

(f.) In any subject questions may be set relating in common to that subject and any other subject of the school course.

(g.) Generally the examination shall assume on the part of a candidate a general knowledge such as may fairly be expected from a Sixth Standard pupil who observes his surroundings intelligently and whose reading is such as will afford a fair acquaintance with current events.

15. The marks assigned to the several subjects shall be as follows: English, 300; Arithmetic, 200; Geography, 100; Elementary Science and Nature-study, 100; History and Civics, 100; Drawing (two branches), 100. English, Arithmetic, and Geography are compulsory for all candidates. Any two of the three remaining subjects (viz., Elementary Science and Nature-study, History and Civics, and Drawing) shall also be taken. The total possible marks obtainable in the examination shall be 800.