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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 135

Otherwise capitation for classes in such subjects will be paid at the rate specified for Division I of clause 40 hereof.

45. (a.) Payment on account of the attendance of students at recognized technical and continuation classes may be made at the following rates per hour attendance:—

where the divisions correspond respectively with those enumerated in clauses 40 and 42 hereof; provided that, in the case of an approved class for advanced or special work, the Director may approve an annual grant equivalent to not more than 7s. 6d. per class hour in lieu of the capitation payments herein specified; provided further that where the average attendance at a recognized class under one teacher exceeds thirty capitation shall be paid as for an average attendance of thirty.

(b.) Progress payments on account of capitation payable under clauses 45 (a) and 46 hereof may be made during the year.

46. In addition to the capitation payable under clause 45 hereof, capitation at the rate of 3d. per hour attendance will be paid on account of the attendance of students who attend under regulations for compulsory attendance of young persons at technical and continuation classes, or under clauses 89 and 94 of the said regulations; provided that an addition to the rate of payment of one-half thereof may be made in respect of the attendances of such students at approved classes held more than two miles from a town of not less than two thousand inhabitants.

47. Not more than two hundred and forty hours’ instruction in continuation subjects, and not more than four hundred hours’ instruction in all subjects taken, may be counted in respect of any student for the purposes of capitation payable under clauses 45 and 46 hereof in any year.

III. COLLEGE CLASSES.

48. All the subjects in Divisions II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII of clause 42 hereof may be recognized as subjects of technical instruction in college classes.

49. No claim may be made in respect of the attendance of a student in any subject that he takes in the ordinary course of his university studies for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, or Bachelor of Laws, or Bachelor of Medicine, or for the ordinary Degree of Bachelor of Science. In other respects the conditions are the same as for classes under clause 42 hereof.

The following regulations are hereby substituted for clauses 55 and 56 of the said regulations:—

55. The Minister may make grants in aid of the maintenance of buildings or the purchase of furniture, fittings, and apparatus of a permanent character—i.e., not requiring to be replaced from year to year—for the use of technical and continuation classes or of manual-training classes other than those referred to in clauses 15 (c) and 27 (c) of the said regulations; provided that no grants will be made to repair or replace apparatus broken; provided further that grants in aid of maintenance shall not exceed two-thirds of the actual cost, and shall only be made in the case of buildings held by an Education Board as controlling authority.

56. The following, among others, may be regarded as permanent apparatus: Casts, models, flat examples, books on art and technical subjects, machine and hand tools, but not drills, files, &c., which require replacing from year to year, scientific apparatus, but not glassware such as retorts, test-tubes, &c., which require periodical replacement.

Clause 60 of the said regulations is hereby amended by substituting for the words “All grants for” the words “All grants in respect of.”

Clause 92 of the said regulations is hereby amended by omitting the words “prescribed for group courses.”

Clause 95 of the said regulations is hereby amended by the deletion of the words “of the subjects prescribed for group courses,” and by the substitution therefor of the words “related subjects.”

F. W. FURBY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.