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(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. on each proportional one-third part of
such fees on payment within one month from the date of the
commencement of each term.

(4.) The school year shall consist of three terms of about
twelve weeks each.

(5.) The principal of each school 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.

7. Subject to the general direction and control of the Board,
   the rector shall have the following powers with respect to the
   boys’ school, and the lady principal shall have similar powers
   with respect to the girls’ school:

(1.) He shall have control of the school buildings and pre-
mises, and of the apparatus and furniture thereof.

(2.) He shall have the power to recommend the appoint-
ment 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 rector 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
rector shall hold good until the Chairman or the Board has
determined the matter.

(4.) He shall be supreme over the discipline, and may sus-
pend any pupil, reporting his action to the Board at its next
meeting, and the action of the rector 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 organiza-
tion, 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 license hostels or boardinghouses 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 Palmerston North 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 follow-
ing amended scheme for the Palmerston North High School
(hereinafter called “the school”), which has been esta-
blished 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 Palmerston
   North High School” (hereinafter called “the Board”). The
   Board shall under that name be a body corporate, as pro-
   vided 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 Palmerston North 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.

(2.) The member appointed under paragraph (d) of sub-
clause (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, occu-
pation, 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 depart-
ment.

(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 Palmerston
North 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.]

(7.) If the nomination-paper does not bear the written
consent of the candidate nominated, such consent may be
given by him to the Returning Officer before the nominations
are closed, and every nomination-paper shall be void in so
far as concerns any candidate whose written consent is not
duly given as aforesaid.

(8.) Nominations shall close at noon on the tenth day
before the day of the election.

(9.) If the number of nominations received does not exceed
the number of vacancies to be filled, the Returning Officer
shall forthwith declare the candidate or candidates so nomi-
nated to be duly elected. In all other cases he shall, as soon
as the nominations are closed, prepare and post to each
elector at his address as appearing on the roll a printed
voting-paper containing in alphabetical order of surnames
a list of all the duly nominated candidates for whom such
parent is entitled to vote; and such voting-paper shall be
in the form or to the effect following:

VOTING-PAPER FOR USE AT ELECTION TO BE HELD ON THE
DAY OF , 19 , OF MEMBER OF THE BOARD
OF GOVERNORS OF THE PALMERSTON NORTH HIGH SCHOOL.

CANDIDATES.

[Set out in alphabetical order of surnames the full name of
every duly nominated candidate.]

[Signature of voter.]