Dec. 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3237

REGULATIONS.

EDUCATIONAL BURSARIES.

1. An educational bursary may, with the approval of the Director of Education, be awarded to any person who has satisfied all the following conditions, namely, that:—

(a.) (i.) He is a teacher as defined in section 2 of the Education Act, 1914, and holds a teacher’s certificate of a class not lower than Class “C”; or

(ii.) Has within the six months immediately preceding completed his term of service as a pupil-teacher or probationer in some education district in accordance with the regulations relating to pupil-teachers and probationers and to the satisfaction of the Education Board and of the Senior Inspector of that district, and declares his intention of entering a recognized training college on the completion of the tenure of his bursary; or

(iii.) Has satisfactorily completed his course of training at a recognized training college and has gained a trained teacher’s certificate:

(b.) He is a matriculated student of the University of New Zealand:

(c.) He has been resident in New Zealand for one year immediately preceding the date of application for a bursary:

(d.) He has been recommended by the Senior Inspector of an education district as being worthy of holding a bursary:

(e.) He has entered, by his parent or guardian or by some other person approved by the Minister, into a bond with the Minister to repay the amount paid in respect to his bursary should he fail to complete within the required time such term of service as is herein prescribed in a public school, a secondary school, or a technical school, or in a kindergarten school under a free kindergarten association recognized by the Education Department for purposes of subsidy, or in any school under the control of the Department, or in a university college in New Zealand. The bond shall be in the form supplied by the Department, and shall provide,—

(i.) In the case of a bursar qualified under paragraph (i) of clause 1 (a) hereof, for a teaching service of not less than three years to be completed within five years after the termination of the bursary; and

(ii.) In the case of a bursar qualified under either paragraph (ii) or (iii) of clause 1 (a) hereof, for a teaching service of not less than two years to be completed within three years after the completion of the term of service prescribed under clause 16 of the Regulations for Training Colleges.

2. An application for an educational bursary, made in due form and accompanied by the necessary certificates, must be addressed to the Senior Inspector of Schools of the district, to be forwarded by him, with any recommendation that he may have to make, to the Director of Education. Such application must reach the Senior Inspector by the 1st day of March in any year.

3. An educational bursary may be held at any university college or at a school of agriculture recognized by the University. The classes taken must be such as would form part of a course in arts, science, or agriculture.

4. An educational bursary shall not be tenable with a University Junior Scholarship, a University National Scholarship, or a University Bursary, or with any other scholarship, exhibition, or bursary, or combination thereof, the value or combined value of which, exclusive of any lodging-allowance received, exceeds £20 a year.

5. There shall be paid to or on behalf of each holder of an educational bursary the amount of the fees payable by him to the university college in respect of such classes as the Director of Education, after consultation with the Professorial Board, shall approve for him, and, in addition, the university fees for the degree examinations for which he sits:

Provided that if the college fees payable by any holder in any one year be more than £20 in all, the sum of £20 only shall be paid to or for such holder in respect of such fees.

6. The term of an educational bursary shall in general be three years, if the holder so long fulfils the prescribed conditions; but under special circumstances the bursary may be extended for a further term, provided that the whole period of the bursary so extended shall not exceed five years.

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