JULY 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 2431
of the Board, which candidate or candidates shall be elected,
and thereby complete the election.
(14.) Forthwith after the completion of the election the
Returning Officer shall notify to the Board and to the Minister
the names of the persons elected.
(15.) Retiring members shall be eligible for re-election.
(16.) If any dispute or question arises touching the regularity of any election, such dispute or question shall be determined by the Stipendiary Magistrate in manner provided by sections 45 to 54 of the Local Elections and Polls Act, 1908, all the provisions of which shall, mutatis mutandis, apply.
4. (1.) Whenever a casual vacancy occurs among the
members so appointed or elected as aforesaid, the appointment
or election of a member to fill that casual vacancy shall, within
fifty days after the vacancy occurs, be made or held in a similar manner to that hereinbefore provided for an ordinary
vacancy.
(2.) The member so appointed or elected shall hold office only for the residue of the term of the vacating member.
5. Whenever a vacancy is to be filled by the Governor the Board shall forthwith report the fact that such vacancy has occurred to the Minister, and whenever the vacancy is to be filled by the Education Board, to the Secretary of that body.
6. (1.) The school shall provide a course of general secondary education and one or more vocational courses.
(2.) The program of each pupil shall be determined by the headmaster of the school after consultation with the parents or guardian of the pupil; but no pupil shall be compelled to take Latin, or to take more than one language besides English.
(3.) The fees to be charged to those who are not holders of scholarships or free places shall be £12 per annum, subject to a rebate of £1 on each proportional one-third part of such fees on payment within twenty-one days from the date of the commencement of each term.
(4.) The school year shall consist of three terms of about thirteen weeks each.
(5.) The headmaster shall cause the school to be examined during each term; provided that it shall not be necessary for the school to be so examined in any term in which it is examined by some person appointed by the Minister or the Board, and provided further that it shall not be necessary to include in such examination pupils sitting for public examinations during the term.
7. Subject to the general direction and control of the Board, the headmaster shall have the following powers:-
(1.) He shall have control of the school buildings and premises, and of the apparatus and furniture thereof.
(2.) He shall have the power to recommend the appointment or dismissal of assistant teachers or of other officers of the school, and to allot their several duties; and no assistant teacher or other officer of the school shall be appointed until the headmaster has been consulted.
(3.) He shall have the power in cases of grave neglect of duty or of gross misbehaviour to suspend any assistant teacher or other officer, but shall forthwith report his action to the Chairman of the Board, who shall thereupon confirm or overrule his action until the next meeting of the Board, when the matter may be determined; but the action of the headmaster shall hold good until the Chairman or the Board has determined the matter.
(4.) He shall be supreme over the discipline, and may suspend any pupil, reporting his action to the Board at its next meeting, and the action of the headmaster shall hold good until the Board has come to some determination in regard to the matter. He shall not expel any pupil without the sanction of the Board.
(5.) He shall regulate all text-books, methods, and organization, and, subject to clause 6 hereof and to the regulations under the Education Act, he shall determine the course of study for each pupil.
8. The Board may establish or license hostels or boarding-houses for the accommodation of pupils, and may place such hostels or boardinghouses under the charge of teachers of the school or other suitable persons, and shall provide for the inspection of such hostels or boardinghouses.
9. The school shall be open to inspection as provided by section 96 of the Education Act.
Dated at Wellington this 10th day of July, 1915.
F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Education.
Amended Scheme for the Control of Gore High School.
Education Department,
Wellington, 7th July, 1915.
In accordance with the provisions of the Education Act, 1914 (hereinafter called “the Education Act”), and with the powers thereunder, I, Francis Henry Dillon Bell, acting
for the Minister of Education, do hereby, on the advice of the General Council of Education, approve of the following amended scheme for the Gore High School (hereinafter called “the school”), which has been established under section 94 of the Education Act, 1908.

1. The school shall be controlled by a Board of Governors under the name of “The Board of Governors of the Gore High School” (hereinafter called “the Board”). The Board shall under that name be a body corporate, as provided in section 91 of the Education Act.
2. (1.) There shall be nine members of the Board, who shall be appointed or elected in the manner following, namely:-
   (a.) A group of two members appointed by the Governor;
   (b.) A group of three members appointed by the Education Board of the district;
   (c.) A group of three members elected by the parents of the pupils;
   (d.) One member appointed by the Committee of the urban school district (if any) within five miles of the school, or, if there is no such urban school district, by the Gore Borough Council.
   (2.) Of the members appointed by the Governor in accordance with the Education Act, 1908, the one who has been longest in office since his last appointment shall retire on the 31st July, 1915, and the two remaining members shall be deemed to have been appointed under the provisions of the Education Act, 1914.
   (3.) The members appointed by the Education Board, and the members elected by the parents of the pupils, in accordance with the Education Act, 1908, shall be deemed to have been so appointed or elected in accordance with the provisions of the Education Act, 1914.
   (4.) The ordinary term of office of members appointed under paragraphs (a) and (d) of subclause (1) hereof shall be two years, and the ordinary term of office of members appointed or elected under paragraphs (b) and (c) of subclause (1) hereof shall be three years; but every member shall hold office until the appointment or election of his successor.
3. (1.) The members appointed by the Board of Education shall be appointed by a resolution of such Board.
   (2.) The member appointed under paragraph (d) of subclause (1) of clause 2 hereof shall be appointed by a resolution of the appointing body, and the first appointment shall be made in the month of July, 1915.
4. In regard to the election of members of the Board by the parents of the pupils, the following provisions shall apply:-
   (1.) Every such election shall be held on a date to be fixed by the Board in accordance with this scheme.
   (2.) The Secretary of the Board shall be the Returning Officer.
   (3.) For the purposes of each election the Returning Officer shall prepare a roll, and shall enter therein the name, occupation, and address of every person qualified to be enrolled as a parent of a pupil of the school. The roll shall be closed at 5 o'clock on the fourteenth day next before the day on which any election is to be held, and shall continue to be closed until the election is completed.
   “Parent” means the father if he is living, or, if not, the mother, or, if neither the father nor the mother is living, the guardian, of a pupil of the school.
   A “pupil of the school” means a pupil whose name is on the school roll at the close of the term preceding the closing of the roll, but does not include a pupil in any lower department.
   (4.) The Returning Officer shall, by advertisement in a newspaper circulating in the district, publicly notify, not less than fourteen days before each election,-
   (a.) The day and hour for the closing of nominations.
   (b.) The total number of candidates to be elected;
   (c.) The day and hour for the closing of the election;
   (5.) Every candidate shall be nominated in writing by one or more parents entitled to vote for his election.
   Each such parent may nominate any number of candidates not exceeding the number to be elected.
   (6.) Every nomination-paper shall be in the form or to the effect following:-
   I, [Name and address], being a parent duly entered on the roll, do hereby nominate [Name and address] as a candidate for election to the Board of Governors of the Gore High School at the election to be held on the day of
   Dated this day of
   [Signature of nominator.]
   CANDIDATE'S CONSENT [to be subscribed at foot of Nomination-paper].
   I hereby consent to my nomination.
   [Signature of candidate nominated.]