Nov. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3501

TABLE B.

Showing Decrease in Quarterly Average Attendance upon which the Staff of
a School may be reduced.

5. In the case of a new school the staff, salaries, and allowances of such school shall be 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, as for the average attendance for such period;
   (ii.) For the first quarter during the whole of which the school is open, as for the average attendance for that quarter; and
   (iii.) Thereafter, as for the mean of the quarterly average attendances for the several quarters until the 31st December next ensuing.

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; but the staff of the school shall, from the date of the separation, be determined in accordance with the yearly average attendance of the main school for the preceding year.

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

8. In any school in which under the Act or these regulations a reduction in the staff is to be made, if at the beginning of any subsequent quarter it is found that the average attendance of the school for the quarter immediately preceding has increased so that the minimum average attendance of the grade or subgrade for which such staff has been provided has been reached, then payment of the salary or salaries of the teacher or teachers prescribed in column (5) of that table may be continued for such period as the Commissioner may decide, being not more than four months after the beginning of the quarter first named; and so on from quarter to quarter until the 1st February next ensuing.

9. In schools that are not entitled to the services of an assistant, payment for instruction in sewing will be made in accordance with the Regulations for Manual Instruction in Public Schools.

PART VIII.—PUPIL-TEACHERS AND PROBATIONERS.

The regulations made by Order in Council dated 17th December, 1918, relating to the employment, education, and examination of pupil-teachers and probationers are hereby amended as follows:—

1. By deleting all the words after “regulations” in clause 1, and by adding the following words to that clause: “Provided that all vacancies for pupil-teachers shall be filled before any probationers are appointed.”

2. By substituting the figures “500” for the figures “700” wherever the latter occur in clause 2, and by substituting the figure “II” for the figure “III” after the word “Grade,” and by inserting the figure “II” after the word “Grades” in that clause.

3. (1.) By deleting paragraphs (a) and (b) of subclause (1) of clause 8, and by substituting therefor the following: “For the first year, £65 per annum; for the second year, £75 per annum.”

(2.) By deleting all the words after the words “as follows” in subclause (2) of clause 8, and by substituting therefor the following: “Third Grade, £65 per annum; Second Grade, £75 per annum; First Grade, £85 per annum.”

4. By substituting the words “pupil-teacher” for the words “junior teacher” wherever the latter occur in the said regulations.

5. This Part of these regulations, excepting clause 3, shall come into force on the 1st day of February, 1920.

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