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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(a.) Service as a probationer appointed on or after 1st February, 1921, or
service as a pupil-teacher shall be counted as service of half its
length.
(b.) Each year of an approved course in a teachers’ training college shall
count as a full year of service.
(c.) Any period of military service with the New Zealand Expeditionary
Force within the period 4th August, 1914, to 12th November,
1918, shall count as double service.
(d.) Any period of leave of absence in excess of three months shall not
be counted as service, except that leave of absence granted under
the Exchange of Teachers Regulations shall be counted as full
service.

14. Quota.—(i.) The quota of marks provided for in clause 6 hereof shall,
    for each teacher graded in the respective groups, be as follows :—

Group. Quota. Group. Quota.
1 .. .. .. 20 | 4 .. .. .. 80
2 .. .. .. 40 | 5 .. .. .. 100
3 .. .. .. 60 | 6 .. .. .. 120

(ii.) Such quota marks shall be regarded as efficiency marks awarded in
recognition of the relatively higher degree of efficiency required to secure in
each successively higher group the same number of marks awarded under
clauses 6 and 7 hereof.

15. Any teacher who by reason of a correction in the marks allotted
    him for service or certificate becomes entitled to additional marks shall not
    in consequence thereof suffer a reduction in the marks awarded him under
    any other heading.

16. Any teacher who has held the maximum marks for teaching, per-
    sonality, discipline, environment, organization, and management for a
    period of at least two years and has been unable to obtain promotion to
    a position in a higher group may, with the approval of the Director, be
    graded in the next higher group.

17. (i.) It shall be the duty of the Director to secure and maintain a
    reasonable degree of uniformity in the standard of marking in the various
    districts, and to this end he may, as he thinks fit, confer with all the Senior
    Inspectors conjointly.

(ii.) If by the decision of such conference it is held that the standard of
grading in any district departs to an unreasonable extent from that of the
remainder of the Dominion the Director shall instruct the Inspectors of
the district or districts concerned to adjust their standard of marking
accordingly.

18. From the grading-marks forwarded to the Director by the Senior
    Inspectors of the various districts shall be compiled annually a general
    graded list of teachers, which shall be duly published in accordance with
    the Act before the 30th day of June. Every such general list shall contain—
    (a.) The names of all teachers graded as herein provided, arranged in
    order, and consecutively numbered in accordance with the total
    of the grading-marks assigned :
    (b.) The name in each case of the district in which the teacher was
    graded, the nature of the position occupied, and such other infor-
    mation as the Director may determine :
    (c.) The names of all certificated teachers in the Dominion, whether
    graded or not, and the class of certificate held by each teacher.

19. Each teacher who is graded under these regulations shall be sup-
    plied by the Director of Education with the separate marks on which his
    grading was determined, the information thus supplied to be treated as
    confidential.

20. Any teacher who considers that he has good grounds for objection
    to the position assigned to him on the graded list may, not later than thirty-
    one clear days after the publication of the list in the New Zealand Gazette,
    lodge an appeal by letter with the Director of Education, Wellington, giving
    the complete and definite grounds on which the appeal is based, and every
    such appeal shall be dealt with as hereinafter provided.

21. All the appeals from each district shall be sent to an Appeal Board
    in the district concerned. Such Appeal Board shall consist of a Chairman
    appointed by the Minister, who shall be Chairman of all Appeal Boards, a
    representative of the Department not being an Inspector of the district,
    and a representative selected by the certificated teachers of the district in
    such manner as the Director may determine. An officer of the Depart-
    ment may be present during the hearing of appeals, for the purpose of
    giving or of eliciting information bearing on points raised in appeals.

22. The Appeal Board in each district shall consider the appeals sent in
    from teachers in the district only with respect to the definite grounds stated
    in each appeal. In any case where the Board decides that an appellant’s