APRIL 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1021

Approval of Fees for Licensing of Vehicles fixed by By-law.—Hobson County Council.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 20th March, 1920.

IT is hereby notified, in accordance with section 107 of the Counties Act, 1908, that so much of the by-law made by the Hobson County Council, and sealed on the 17th day of February, 1920, as appoints the several sums to be paid to the Hobson County funds for the licensing of vehicles plying for hire has this day been approved by His Excellency the Governor-General.

F. H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Funds approved under Section 33 of the War Legislation Act, 1917.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 24th March, 1920.

PURSUANT to section 33 of the War Legislation Act, 1917, I hereby notify, for public information, that I have this day approved, for the purposes of the said section, the war funds controlled by the societies named in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE.

Name of Society. Address.
Northern Wairoa Memorial to Fallen Dargaville.
Soldiers
Mercury Bay Soldiers Memorial Com- Mercury Bay.
mittee
Te Aroha Returned Soldiers Club Building Te Aroha.
Fund
Dannevirke and District Returned Soldiers Dannevirke.
Institute
Napier Centre British Red Cross and Napier.
Order of St. John
New Plymouth Soldiers Hostel New Plymouth.
Feilding Returned Soldiers Club Building Feilding.
Fund
Greytown Soldiers Memorial Park Greytown.
Canvastown Branch Marlborough Patriotic Marlborough.
Association
Banks Peninsula War Memorial Park Akaroa.
Lancaster Park Mortgage Extinction Fund Christchurch.
Irwell Red Cross Society Irwell.
Lakeside Patriotic Committee Lakeside.
South Canterbury War Memorial Committee Timaru.

F. H. D. BELL,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Result of Election of a Member of the Oamaru and Port Chalmers Fire Boards by Fire-insurance Companies.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 31st March, 1920.

THE following result of the election of a member of the Oamaru and Port Chalmers Fire Boards by fire-insurance companies has been reported to the Minister of Internal Affairs, and is notified in accordance with the rules made under the Fire Brigades Act, 1908.

W. H. HERRIES,
For Minister of Internal Affairs.

OAMARU Fire Board: Mr. Walter Paterson.
Port Chalmers Fire Board: William Harrington Cowper.

Plant declared to be a Noxious Weed by the Havelock North Town Board.—Notice No. 2001.

Department of Agriculture, Industries, and Commerce,
Wellington, 26th March, 1920.

IT is hereby notified, for public information, that the Havelock North Town Board has, by special order, declared lantana (Lantana Camara L.) to be a noxious weed within the meaning of the Noxious Weeds Act, 1908, in the district under its jurisdiction.

W. NOSWORTHY,
Minister of Agriculture.

Trustees of the Hairini Rabbit District elected.—Notice No. 2002.

Department of Agriculture,
Wellington, 30th March, 1920.

NOTICE has been received under the hand of the Returning Officer of the Hairini Rabbit District, constituted under Part III of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908, that

HENRY VALENTINE COLLISON,
GEORGE HALL,
HERBERT MANDENO, and
CHARLES PARKER

have been duly elected trustees of the said district.

W. NOSWORTHY,
Minister of Agriculture.

Scheme for the Control of the Wellington College and Wellington Girls’ College.

Education Department,
Wellington, 26th March, 1920.

IN accordance with the provisions of the Education Act, 1914 (hereinafter called “the Education Act”), and with the powers thereunder, I, Francis Henry Dillon Bell, Minister of Education, do hereby, on the advice of the General Council of Education, approve of the following scheme for the Wellington College and Wellington Girls’ College (hereinafter called “the schools”), which are established under the provisions of the Wellington College and Girls’ High School Act, 1887.

1. The schools shall be controlled by the Board of Governors (hereinafter referred to as “the Board”) constituted by the Wellington College and Girls’ High School Act, 1887.

2. (1.) The schools shall provide a course of general secondary education and one or more vocational courses.

(2.) The programme of each pupil shall be determined by the Principal after consultation with the parents or guardian, but in all cases the programme of each girl shall include adequate instruction in elementary domestic science and hygiene, and in one or more of the domestic arts, extending in general over not less than two years of the secondary course provided. No pupil shall be compelled to take Latin or to take more than one language besides English.

(3.) The fees to be charged to those who are not holders of scholarships or free places shall be £4 8s. per term for senior pupils, £3 10s. 8d. per term for junior pupils (i.e., pupils under fourteen), and £3 10s. per term for pupils of the lower department, subject to a discount of 10 per cent. if paid within ten days from the first day of the term.

(4.) The school year shall consist of three terms of about thirteen weeks each, and the school holidays shall be arranged as far as possible so that schools are closed at the same time as the public schools of the district.

(5.) The headmaster or headmistress shall cause the school to be examined during each term; provided that it shall not be necessary for the school to be so examined in any term in which it is examined by some person appointed by the Minister or the Board; and provided further that it shall not be necessary to include in such examination pupils sitting for public examinations during the term.

3. Subject to the general direction and control of the Board, the headmaster shall have the following powers with respect to the boys’ school, and the headmistress shall have similar powers with respect to the girls’ school:—

(1.) He shall have control of the school buildings and premises, and of the apparatus and furniture thereof.

(2.) He shall have the power to recommend the appointment or dismissal of assistant teachers or of other officers of the school, and to allot their several duties; and no assistant teacher or other officer of the school shall be appointed until the headmaster has been consulted.

(3.) He shall have the power in cases of grave neglect of duty or of gross misbehaviour to suspend any assistant teacher or other officer, but shall forthwith report his action to the Board, which shall at its next meeting confirm or overrule his action; but the action of the headmaster shall hold good until the Board has determined the matter.

(4.) He shall be supreme over the discipline, and may suspend any pupil, reporting his action to the Board at its next meeting, and the action of the headmaster shall hold good until the Board has come to some determination in regard to the matter. He shall not expel any pupil without the sanction of the Board.

(5.) He shall regulate all text-books, methods, and organization, and, subject to clause 2 hereof and to the regulations under the Education Act, he shall determine the course of study for each pupil; provided that when any change is made in the text-books used by junior free pupils the books shall be selected from a list approved by the Minister of Education.

4. The Board may establish or license hostels or boarding-houses for the accommodation of pupils who have to live away from home, and may place such hostels or boardinghouses under the charge of teachers of the schools or other suitable persons, and shall provide for the inspection of such hostels or boardinghouses by some person appointed by the Board.

5. The schools shall be open to inspection as provided by section 96 of the Education Act.

Dated at Wellington this 26th day of March, 1920.

F. H. D. BELL,
Minister of Education.