JULY 12.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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the consent of the Minister previously obtained, continue his free place for the unexpired period thereof at another school—namely, a secondary school, or a district high school, or a technical school:

Provided, further, that a junior or senior free pupil who leaves a secondary school or a district high school to take up employment at any time before the completion of the tenure of his free place shall be eligible to continue his free place at a technical school for the unexpired period thereof.

(ii.) A pupil who has completed his tenure of a junior or senior free place at a secondary school, or district high school, or technical school shall not be eligible to hold a similar free place—junior or senior, as the case may be—at any secondary school, district high school, or technical school.

(iii.) Nothing in this clause shall be taken to prevent a pupil who has qualified for but has not entered upon a senior free place while attending a secondary or district high school from entering upon a senior free place at another school being a district high school, secondary school, or technical school.

16. (i.) Any free pupil whose parents, after his admission to the secondary school or district high school, shall remove more than five miles from the school at which his free place is held may continue to hold his free place at any secondary school nearer his home, or at any district high school or technical school; and such secondary school, or district high school, or technical school shall admit him accordingly on the same terms as if he had remained at the first-named school, provided that a secondary school shall not be required to admit under these circumstances a holder of a free place at a district high school who can attend another district high school or a technical high school.

(ii.) If any free pupil fails on account of illness to fulfil the conditions of his free place, or if any junior free pupil fails on account of illness to pass the examination or otherwise qualify for a senior free place, his free place may, with the approval of the Minister, be continued for another year, provided that the limits of age stated in clauses 5 and 9 hereof are not thereby exceeded. The fact of illness must be proved by evidence satisfactory to the Director of Education.

17. Any pupil who has held a free place at a district high school or secondary school that has been disestablished by the Minister, or that for any other reason has ceased to exist, may continue to hold his free place at another secondary school, district high school, or technical school; and such secondary school, district high school, or technical school shall admit him accordingly on the same terms as if he had remained at the first-named school; nevertheless, a secondary school may decline to admit such pupil if he can attend a secondary school nearer his home.

18. The programme of each free pupil under these regulations shall be determined by the principal of the school after consultation with the parent or guardian of the pupil: Provided that no such pupil shall be compelled to take Latin or to take more than one language besides English.

The programme of each free pupil shall consist not of a number of disconnected subjects, but of a group of subjects duly arranged in accordance with the pupil’s capacities, surroundings, and probable future calling, as far as such a programme can be provided for with regard to the general circumstances of the school.

19. Free places under these regulations are not tenable with any other scholarships or free places, except as provided in clause 3 (a) or in clause 7 (a) hereof.

20. (a.) Payments of the grant under section 100 of the Education Act, 1914, shall be made at the end of each term or quarter of the secondary school, claims being made on forms provided by the Education Department.

(b.) The annual return of free pupils under these regulations shall be sent to the Director of Education not later than the 1st April in each year.

21. The principal of every secondary school or district high school shall keep record-cards, on the forms provided or approved by the Education Department, showing such information with respect to the course pursued and progress made by each free pupil as may be required; and in the case of transfer from one school to another the free pupil who is entitled to a transfer under these regulations shall be given his record-card duly filled up and signed, and no secondary school, district high school, or technical school shall admit such pupil to a free place until he produces his record-card. A record-card duly completed so as to form a certificate should be given to every pupil who has satisfactorily completed his course as the holder of a junior or senior free place, and such certificate must accompany every application for the transfer of a free place under the first proviso to clause 15 (i), or for the granting of a senior free place under clause 7 (c) or for the granting of a leaving certificate under the regulations relating to certificates of secondary instruction.

J. F. ANDREWS,

B Clerk of the Executive Council.