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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 167

2. It shall be the duty of the Board on the 1st February in each year
   to determine, according to the yearly average attendance for the year
   ended 31st December immediately preceding, the grade and subgrade to
   which every school under the control of the Board belongs.

3. Until the first grading of the schools under the last preceding
   clause is made the schools shall be classified in the grades and subgrades
   in which they would be placed under the Fifth Schedule to the Act, and
   the grades so ascertained shall for the period in question be deemed to be
   the grades and subgrades determined under these regulations.

4. If at the beginning of any quarter it appears that a school in
   Grade 0—that is, a school having a yearly average attendance not ex-
   ceeding eight—has an average attendance for the last preceding quarter
   of sixteen, or for two, three, or four quarters immediately preceding of
   fourteen, or twelve, or nine (as the case may be), the school shall be placed
   in Grade I.

5. Until the first annual grading of a new school under clause 2
   hereof the grade and subgrade of that school shall be determined in
   accordance with the average attendance as follows:—
   (i.) For the period from the date of opening until the end of the
   quarter in which the school was opened, on the average at-
   tendance for such period;
   (ii.) For the first quarter during the whole of which the school is
   open, on the average attendance for that quarter; and
   (iii.) Thereafter on the mean of the quarterly average attendances for
   the several quarters until the 31st January next ensuing:
   Provided that in any special case where the circumstances are exceptional
   a new school may, with the precedent approval of the Minister, be pro-
   visionally graded in a higher grade or subgrade than that in which it
   would be placed under the provisions of this clause, or on its first grading
   under the provisions of clause 2 hereof.

6. In the case of a main school from which during any year a side
   school has been separated, such separation shall not affect the grade of
   the school for that year.

7. The grade or subgrade of a district high school shall be determined
   in accordance with the average attendance in the primary department
   and the secondary department taken together.

8. Secondary departments of district high schools shall be classified
   in the grades specified in Schedule IV of clause 14 hereof.

9. If the yearly average attendance of the secondary department of
   a district high school for any year falls below twelve, such secondary
   department may, with the precedent approval of the Minister, be pro-
   visionally graded as a secondary department in Grade A. The Minister’s
   approval may at any time be revoked.

10. In no case shall any school established during any year as a new
    district high school be placed for that year in a grade lower than that
    in which it would have been placed had it not been established as a dis-
    trict high school.

11. For the purpose of determining the grade of a school to which one
    or more side schools are attached, the main school and the side school or
    schools attached thereto shall be deemed to form one school.

12. In ascertaining the grade of a group of part-time schools, the
    group of schools shall be treated as one school, and the average attend-
    ance shall be the combined average attendance of the group.

II. SALARIES OF TEACHERS.

13. (1.) The salaries payable to head teachers and assistant teachers
    respectively in public schools are hereby classified in grades in accordance
    with Schedule I hereunder:—

SCHEDULE I

Part I.—Grades of Salaries payable to Head Teachers.