JULY 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

(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 com-
pelled to take Latin or to take more than one language
besides English.

(3.) The net fees to be charged to those who are not holders
of scholarships or free places shall be £10 per annum.

(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 ap-
pointed 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 organiza-
tion 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 license or establish 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 differ-
    ent 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 scholar-
    ships 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 extra-
    ordinary 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.

Scheme for the Control of the Rangiora High School.

Education Department,
Wellington, 10th 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 scheme for the Rangiora High School (hereinafter
called “the school”), which is established under the pro-
visions of the Rangiora High School Act, 1881.

1. The school shall be controlled by the Board of Governors
   (hereinafter referred to as “the Board”) constituted by the
   Rangiora High School Act, 1881, as amended by the Educa-
   tion Act, 1914.

2. With regard to the election of members of the Board by
   the parents of the pupils, the following provisions shall
   apply:

(1.) The first election shall be held on a date to be appointed
by the Minister before the 31st day of August in the year
1915, and every subsequent election shall be held on a date
to be fixed by the Board in the month of July in every
second year thereafter.

(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
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 the 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 exceed-
ing 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 Rangiora 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 the 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-