Oct. 28.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

(d.) With the approval of the Education Board and the Senior Inspector
of the district, to call together at convenient times and places
any or all of the teachers in the schools under his supervision,
and to discuss with them in conference matters relating to the
efficiency of their schools.

2. With regard to the general policy and method of directing the work
   of the teachers in the schools under his supervision, the organizing teacher
   shall in all cases first obtain the approval of the Education Board and the
   Senior Inspector of Schools, or of an Inspector selected by the Senior
   Inspector of Schools, and shall in all respects, so far as circumstances permit,
   conform in his practice to the policy and method so approved by the
   Education Board and the Inspector.

3. The organizing teacher shall have a general responsibility for the
   system of organization, teaching, and control adopted in the schools under
   his supervision, but the head or sole teacher in each case shall be responsible
   for the execution of the plan outlined or demonstrated for his guidance
   and for the efficiency of its application.

4. In December of each year the Senior Inspector shall prepare and
   submit for the approval of the Education Board and the Director a list of
   the schools it is proposed to place in charge of each organizing teacher
   during the ensuing year, provided that in general no such teacher shall have
   charge of more than fifteen schools.

5. The list of schools allotted to any organizing teacher may, as occasion
   arises, be altered by the exclusion of schools that have reached a reasonable
   standard of efficiency and by the inclusion of other schools; provided that
   all such changes shall first receive the approval of the Education Board and
   the Director of Education.

6. The Senior Inspector may, with like approval, withdraw any
   organizing teacher for short periods from his group of schools, and detail
   him for special duty relating to the methods of teaching or organization
   in any other school; but no organizing teacher shall, without the permission
   of the Director, be employed to inspect or examine a school.

7. Organizing teachers shall furnish on diary forms provided for the
   purpose whatever information may from time to time be required regarding
   their daily engagements. These diaries shall be submitted each month
   to the Education Board and to the Senior Inspector, and shall thereafter
   be forwarded to the Department with claims for the travelling-expenses
   and travelling-allowances.

8. (1.) An organizing teacher shall receive actual and necessary transit
   expenses incurred in connexion with the execution of his duty, and shall
   in addition receive the following allowances:

(a.) 13s. per day travelling-allowance for each day of twenty-four hours,
and one twenty-fourth of this amount for each additional hour,
during which he is absent from his headquarters. In computing
the time of absence a fraction of an hour less than half an hour
shall not be taken into account, but half an hour or more shall
be reckoned as one hour. When an organizing teacher leaves
and returns to headquarters the same day, actual and reasonable
expenses only shall be paid.

(b.) 7s. 6d. per day, horse allowance, for the use of his own horse, and,
in addition, actual cost of fodder when the horse is in use away
from headquarters.

(c.) 3s. 6d. per day, bicycle allowance, together with the actual cost
of carriage of the bicycle by train or other necessary means of
transport.

(d.) 3d. per mile, motor-bicycle allowance, or 10d. per mile motor-car
allowance, for the use of his own vehicle.

(2.) An organizing teacher may return to his headquarters each evening,
provided that his claim for expenses is not thereby increased and, in the
opinion of the Senior Inspector, the efficiency of his work is not interfered
with.

(3.) The approval of the Director of Education must first be secured
before an organizing teacher is authorized to claim any of the allowances
specified in paragraphs (b), (c), or (d) above, and payment shall be made
only in cases where a public conveyance is not available or is available only
at greater cost, or where it is proved to the satisfaction of the Director that
other means of transit would be inconvenient and detrimental to the
service.

9. Any Education Board desirous of appointing an organizing teacher
   shall forward to the Department a statement showing the schools which it
   is proposed that such teacher should supervise.

10. On the receipt of approval by the Minister of the proposal so made
    the Board shall, by public advertisement, invite applications for the vacant
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