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17. Subject to the provisions of this scheme, there shall
    be vested in the Board the whole control and management
    of the Gore High School, and also the entire superintendence
    over all the affairs, concerns, and property thereof, with
    full power to appoint or suspend or dismiss all masters,
    teachers, lecturers, examiners, and other necessary officers
    and servants; and in all cases unprovided-for by the
    Education Act and the regulations thereunder, or by this
    scheme, it shall be lawful for the Board to act in such
    manner as shall appear to it best calculated to further the
    purposes intended to be served by the establishment of such
    school; and the Board shall, subject to the Education Act
    and the regulations thereunder and to this scheme, have
    full power from time to time to make, alter, and rescind
    by-laws and regulations for defining the courses of study
    and education in the school, and also for regulating the
    discipline and examination of the same, the conditions upon
    which the scholars shall be admitted, and the fees to be paid
    in respect of such admission, and, in general, touching all
    other matters, purposes, and things regarding the school.

18. (1.) The school shall provide a general course of
    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 pupils 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 13s. 4d. for each proportional one-third part
of such fees on payment within one month from the date of
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 other 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.

19. Subject to the general direction 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 case 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, 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 head-
master 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 their
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 organisation
in accordance with clause 18 hereof, and, subject to the
same clause and to the regulations under the Education Act,
shall determine the course of study for each pupil.

20. 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.

21. The rents, profits, and income of all real and personal
    estate which may be vested in the Board, or granted or
    acquired as a site or sites or otherwise for the benefit of the
    school, or given, devised, or bequeathed to the Board for
    the benefit of the school without any trusts or powers of a
    different nature being expressed in the instrument so giving,
    devising, or bequeathing to the Board, and all reserves of
    land which may be hereafter made for the benefit of the
    school, shall be held and dealt with by the Board under and
    subject to all such powers, provisions, and conditions as are
    contained in the Education Reserves Act, 1908, and its
    amendments, as if the school were a high school within the
    meaning of that Act.

22. Subject to the subsequent clauses of this scheme, the
    rents, profits, and annual income of all real and personal
    estate that may be vested in the Board, together with all
    funds which may from time to time be derived from fees

or payments made in respect of pupils attending the school,
together with any annual or other allowance that may be
made by the General Assembly or the Government of New
Zealand, shall be applied by the Board for the maintenance
of the school, and the payment of the salaries and expenses
connected therewith, and for prizes, exhibitions, and scholarships
for the pupils therein: Provided that the Board shall
have power to set apart, if it sees fit, out of the said rents,
profits, and annual income, such part as it considers advisable
either as an addition to the capital fund, which shall then be
invested in the manner hereinafter mentioned and dealt with
as part of such capital fund, or as reserve fund to meet extraordinary
expenses, which shall be invested and dealt with in
such manner as the Board directs.

23. With respect to any moneys bequeathed or given to
    the Board for the school, and with respect also to all rent,
    profit, and annual income set apart under the preceding
    clause, the Board shall have power to invest the same in
    the purchase or upon first mortgages of freehold land in
    New Zealand, or upon the stocks, bonds, bills, or debentures
    of the Government of New Zealand, or issued by any local
    authority therein under any Act of the General Assembly,
    and may from time to time vary such investments.

24. The Board may, out of such moneys as may come
    into its hands by virtue of any Act or otherwise for the
    benefit of the school, expend any sum or sums in purchasing
    land and erecting and maintaining suitable buildings and
    premises thereon for use as school buildings, and may, subject
    to the approval of the Minister, expend any sum or sums in
    purchasing land and erecting and maintaining suitable
    buildings thereon for use as boardinghouses for the pupils,
    or as residences for the masters, teachers, or other officers
    employed in connection with the school.

25. The school shall be open to inspection as provided by
    section 96 of the Education Act.

Dated at Wellington this 7th day of July, 1915.

F. H. D. BELL,
For Minister of Education.

Amended Scheme for the Control of Hamilton 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 Hamilton 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 Hamilton
   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 Edu-
cation 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 Hamilton Borough Council.

(2.) Of the members appointed by the Governor in ac-
cordance 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 sub-
clause (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 Edu-
   cation shall be appointed by a resolution of such Board.