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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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change of residence or some other cause deemed, in the opinion of the Minister, to be sufficient, payment may be made at one-half the rate mentioned in clause 112 hereof, if he receives not less than 400 hours’ instruction a year, or at one-quarter of the rate mentioned in the said clause if receives less than 400 but not less than 200 hours’ instruction a year.

114. Except as provided in clause 113 no payment shall be made on account of any pupil making less than 600 hour-attendances a year.

115. Where a pupil transfers during the year to approved technical classes, other than classes at a technical high school, without any substantial intermission of attendance, on the grounds that he is taking up employment, payment may be made at the rate of 4d. for each hour-attendance made by him at the technical high school in excess of 400 or 600, as the case may be, for which payment cannot be claimed under clause 112: Provided that the total of such attendances together with the total of the attendances made by him at the classes to which he is transferred may not for purposes of capitation exceed 400 in any year for any one pupil.

116. Claims for payment under clause 112 shall be made on the forms provided by the Education Department. Progress-payments on account may be made during the year.

X. INSPECTION.

117. An Inspector of the Department shall from time to time visit schools and classes under Part VIII of the Education Act, 1914, and report to the Director of Education on the condition and suitability of the premises and fittings, the sufficiency and condition of the apparatus, &c., used in the instruction, the character and quality of the instruction, the sufficiency of the teaching staff for the number of pupils under instruction, and the manner in which the rules and regulations for the general management and conduct of the classes are carried out.

118. The Inspector may question any pupil in the subject in which he has been under instruction, and may, if reasonable notice has been given, examine any class established under the said Part VIII.

119. The Inspector may require in respect of all classes recognized under the said Part VIII the production of such accounts and documents as will enable him to verify the allocation of the receipts and expenditure in respect of such classes.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council

The High Court of the Cook Islands.—Amended Rules of Procedure.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this thirtieth day of July, 1917.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance of the authority conferred on me by the Cook Islands Act, 1915, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of that Dominion, do hereby amend in the manner and to the extent set forth in the Schedule hereto the Rules of the High Court, 1916, made by Order in Council on the first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and published in the Gazette on the ninth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen; and I do hereby declare that the amendments hereby made shall come into operation on the first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

SCHEDULE.

RULE 83 is hereby amended as follows:—

(a.) By deleting the figures “£20” wherever they occur in the said rule, and substituting therefor the words “fifty pounds.”

(b.) By adding thereto the following paragraph:—

“(e.) In civil proceedings under Part XX of the Cook Islands Act, 1915, relating to maintenance and affiliation.”

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.