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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 133

teachers withdrawn, or appoint another teacher or other teachers to the
staff in lieu thereof; and payment of salary or salaries therefor, as the
case may be, may be made accordingly, as in the case of the teacher or
teachers to whom the notice given had not expired.

18. If at any time between the annual grading of public schools on the
    1st February in any year and the 1st February immediately following the
    average attendance of a school falls below the minimum average attendance
    of the grade or subgrade in which the school is placed to such an extent
    as to satisfy the Board or the Minister that a reduction in the grade or
    subgrade of the school is imminent, and a position on the staff of such
    school thereafter becomes vacant, the grade of salary for such position as
    from the date of such vacancy shall be the grade of salary which would be
    attached to the position under clause 1 hereof if on the occurrence of
    the vacancy the grade or subgrade of the school were determined on the
    reduced average attendance.

19. Notwithstanding any other provision in these regulations, any
    teacher who was appointed to a position in a separate boys’ school before
    the 1st January, 1915, shall, so long as he remains in the same position, be
    paid salary at a rate not lower than the rate he would have received had
    the salaries for all teachers in separate boys’ schools been payable since
    the said 1st January, 1915, on the same scale as that provided since that
    date for mixed schools.

PART II.—GRADING OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

20. Public schools shall be classified in the grades and subgrades specified
    in Schedules I and II of clause 1 hereof, provided that each subgrade above
    Subgrade VIIA shall be determined by each increase of forty or part of
    forty in average attendance.

21. 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.

22. 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 thirteen, or for two, three, or four quarters immediately preceding of
    twelve, or eleven, or nine (as the case may be), the school shall be placed
    in Grade I.

23. Until the first annual grading of a new school under clause 21
    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
attendance 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 December 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 21 hereof.

24. 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.

25. 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.

26. Secondary departments of district high schools shall be classified
    in the grades specified in Schedule III of clause 1 hereof: Provided that
    each grade above Grade J shall be determined by each increase of thirty or
    part of thirty in average attendance.

27. 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.

28. 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,