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cate; and any permission required by telegraph for the joining-
through of any circuit which may be required to effect the
connection shall be obtained by a reply-paid telegram. The
service shall be available on Sundays and at other times
approved by the Minister, usually between midnight and
8 a.m., when the Morse circuits are not in use for ordinary
purposes.

The charges for such communications shall be those pre-
scribed for the use of toll lines, together with the additional
charges set out in regulation 10 hereof for any special attend-
ance required at the office of origin or destination, or at any
intermediate office.

10. When the special attendance of an officer is required
    for the reopening of any office for the purpose of completing
    the connection, a reopening fee of 1s. if the officer is resident
    on the premises, or 2s. 6d. if not resident on the premises,
    shall be paid by the applicant for the connection, and in
    addition the time during which such officer, or any switch-
    board or bureau attendant, may be required to remain in
    attendance for the purpose of the connection shall be paid
    for as overtime at the rates fixed by the Department's
    regulations.

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

Education Act, 1914.—Amended Regulations for Teachers’ Salaries, &c.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 21st day of March, 1921.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him
by the Education Act, 1914, and the amendments of that Act, His
Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting
by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said
Dominion, doth hereby make the amendments set forth in the Schedule
hereto in the regulations made by Order in Council dated the seventeenth
day of November, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and amended
by Order in Council dated the twenty-sixth day of October, one thousand
nine hundred and twenty (hereinafter referred to as “the said regulations”),
relating to the salaries of public-school teachers, the grading of public
schools, the staffing of public schools, and Native schools; and, with the
like advice and consent, doth prescribe that this Order shall be deemed to
have been in force on and after the first day of January, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-one.

SCHEDULE.

STAFFING OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

1. CLAUSE 48 of the said regulations is hereby amended by revoking sub-
   clause (1) thereof and substituting: “(1.) The position of first female assistant
   in every mixed school of Grade IVA or a higher grade shall be that of infant
   mistress.”

NATIVE SCHOOLS.

2. Schedule I of Part VII of the said regulations relating to Native
   schools is hereby amended by adding:—

“A deduction of £10 per annum from the salary payable in accordance
with the above schedule shall be made in the case of every uncertificated
assistant teacher who would otherwise receive a salary of £165–£175 or
£175–£195, and who is not the holder of a license to teach.”

3. Clause 2 of Part VII of the said regulations is hereby amended
   by deleting from subclause (3) the word “certificated,” and by revoking
   the proviso to that subclause and substituting “Provided that such
   addition to salary shall be calculated as if an assistant in a Native school
   receiving a salary of £165–£175 or lower were graded in Group 1, or an
   assistant receiving £175–£195 in Group 2.”

SALARIES OF PUBLIC-SCHOOL TEACHERS.

Clause 15 of the said regulations is hereby amended by adding at the
end of subclause (2) the words “provided that the commencing salary in
the new position shall in no case be higher than Grade IIIA.”

GRADING OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Clause 21 of the said regulations is hereby amended by adding the
following proviso:—

“Provided that a school shall not be raised to a higher grade if the
Board is satisfied that the increased average attendance qualifying the school
for a higher grade is not likely to be permanent.”

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