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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 102

5. The Board shall, wherever possible, employ for the classes established under these regulations the regular instructors who have been classified under the amended Regulations for the Classification of Teachers of Technical Schools or Classes, &c., and if any such instructor is thereby employed overtime he shall be paid additional salary in accordance with clause 14 of the aforesaid regulations, irrespective of the subject or subjects he is called upon to teach. Part-time instructors, each of whom shall first be approved by the Department, may also be employed, and shall receive such rate of payment as shall be approved by the Department on the recommendation of the Senior Inspector.

6. Incidental expenses incurred in connection with teachers' classes, whether conducted on the Board's behalf at a technical school or arranged for separately by the Board itself, shall be paid in accordance with clause 19 (1) of the amended Regulations for the Classification of Teachers in Technical Schools and Classes, &c.

7. The Education Board or the education authority to which the Board with the approval of the Department delegates the conduct of the classes established under these regulations may be granted, to the extent previously approved by the Department, the full cost of the additional apparatus and material required for such classes, provided that the apparatus and material already existing in the school in which the classes are held shall be fully available for such classes.

8. It shall be the duty of the Senior Inspector to arrange for the regular inspection of all instruction classes attended by teachers, and after each inspection to report on the organization of the classes and on the method and character of the instruction.

9. No teacher shall, except with the approval of the Senior Inspector, be permitted to attend instruction classes for more than two years, and no railway, steamer, or coach fare shall be paid on account of any teacher who receives less than two hours' instruction on any one day or who does not attend the class regularly.

10. Every pupil-teacher, probationer, and uncertificated teacher shall be required, unless specially exempted by the Board on the recommendation of the Senior Inspector, to receive instruction as provided for in these regulations for not less than sixty hours spread, if necessary, over a period of two years in each of the following subjects—(a) Science; and (b) Drawing and Handwork.

11. (i.) The course in Science shall be as follows:—

(a.) For the First Year: Instruction in General Elementary Science as outlined in the first eight paragraphs of the syllabus in Elementary Home Science for Class D, with special attention to the manipulation and construction of simple apparatus.

(b.) For the Second Year: Instruction in Nature Study, with special reference to work in the school garden and to indoor experimental work related to Elementary Agriculture.

At least three-quarters of the total time shall be given to instruction of a practical character.

Students who satisfy the Senior Inspector that they already have a satisfactory knowledge of practical General Science shall be required to take only the course set down for the second year, supplemented by further practical work in either Home Science or Elementary Agriculture.

(ii.) The course in Drawing and Handwork shall be framed to meet school requirements, and shall give prominence to the intimate relation between Drawing on the one hand and such Handwork occupations as modelling in clay or plasticine, paper-folding and cardboard modelling, on the other; provided that more attention shall be given to Blackboard Drawing and to Free Drawing with pencil, brush, or crayon than to Instrumental Drawing.

12. (i.) The instructor shall keep a scheme of work, a register of attendance, and a record of the progress of each teacher in his class, and shall at the end of the year hold an examination which shall be chiefly of a practical character.

(ii.) Teachers who are considered by the Senior Inspector to have made good progress at the classes, and who have received at least sixty hours' instruction in either of the branches specified in clause 10 hereof, shall at the end of their course receive a certificate to that effect on a form provided for the purpose, and the Director may accept such certificate as exempting the holder from further examination in these subjects for the Teachers' D Certificate.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.