Nov. 17.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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TABLE D.

and so on, adding 30 for each grade above Grade E.

34. Clause 33 shall affect the staff of the school or department only during the quarter prescribed and any subsequent quarter in the same year. On the 1st February following such school or department shall (in accordance with clause 32 hereof) be staffed in accordance with the yearly average attendance thereof; and nothing in the said clause shall be deemed to affect the salary of any member of the staff of such school or department who shall not have been appointed or removed thereunder.

35. As soon as, under the provisions of the Act and of these regulations, a reduction in the staff of a school is imminent, it shall be the duty of the Board to give notice to every teacher whom it may deem necessary to discharge in order to carry out such reduction.

36. In reckoning the quarter, or two quarters, or three quarters, or four quarters immediately preceding, for the purposes of clause 33 hereof, no account shall be taken of the average attendance for any quarter if it is shown to the satisfaction of the Minister of Education, on the certificate of the District Health Officer or of a Medical Inspector of Schools, that an infectious disease of an epidemic character has been locally prevalent during that quarter to the extent of affecting 10 per cent. or more of the children on the roll of the school or department.

37. Where a qualified assistant cannot be obtained, two pupil-teachers may, with the approval of the Minister previously obtained, be substituted for an assistant: Provided that the number of pupil-teachers in any school shall in no case exceed the number of adult teachers.

38. An assistant may be substituted for two pupil-teachers, but not more than one such substitution shall be made in any one school.

39. The number of teachers and of pupil-teachers in the primary department of a district high school shall be the same as in a public school with the same average attendance as the primary department.

40. No main school or side school, taken separately, shall have a smaller number on its staff than if it were a mixed school of the same average attendance; and the Board shall appoint such additional teachers or pupil-teachers (if any) as are necessary in order to conform to this requirement.

41. An uncertificated teacher who has completed not less than one year’s service may, with the approval of the Minister, be appointed to the staff of any school in lieu of a pupil-teacher.

42. In the case of a main school from which during any year a side school has been separated, the staff of such school shall, from the date of separation, be determined as if the main school from the date of such separation was a new school.

43. If circumstances make it appear expedient that a modification of the staffing otherwise provided by these regulations is reasonable and necessary for the proper conduct of any school or department, the Minister may authorize the Board to modify the staffing in such manner, and for such period not exceeding three months, as he thinks fit. Any teacher temporarily appointed in accordance with such modification shall be paid such salary and allowance as the Minister may approve: Provided that in no case shall the total salaries and allowances payable to the staff exceed the total which would have been payable had the modification in staffing not been authorized.

44. If a class for backward children is established in connection with any public school, or if a public school is established as a model school, an additional assistant may, with the precedent approval of the Minister, be appointed to the staff of such school.

45. The number of male assistants in any mixed school shall not exceed the number of female assistants: Provided that in a school of Grade IIIA the Minister may, on account of special circumstances, approve of the appointment of a male assistant.