JAN. 19.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

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and so on, adding 30 for each grade above Grade E.

31. Clauses 29 and 30 shall affect the staff of the school or department only during the quarter prescribed and any subsequent quarter in the same year. On the 1st February following such school or department shall (in accordance with clause 28 hereof) be staffed in accordance with the yearly average attendance thereof; and nothing in the said clause shall be deemed to affect the salary of any member of the staff of such school or department who shall not have been appointed or removed thereunder.

32. As soon as, under the provisions of the Act and of these regulations, a reduction in the staff of a school is imminent, it shall be the duty of the Board to give notice to every teacher whom it may deem necessary to discharge in order to carry out such reduction.

33. In reckoning the quarter, or two quarters, or three quarters, or four quarters immediately preceding, for the purposes of clauses 29 and 30 hereof, no account shall be taken of the average attendance for any quarter if it is shown to the satisfaction of the Minister of Education, on the certificate of the District Health Officer or of a Medical Inspector of Schools, that an infectious disease of an epidemic character has been locally prevalent during that quarter to the extent of affecting 10 per cent. or more of the children on the roll of the school or department.

34. Where a qualified assistant cannot be obtained, two pupil-teachers may, with the approval of the Minister previously obtained, be substituted for an assistant: Provided that the number of pupil-teachers in any school shall in no case exceed the number of adult teachers.

35. An assistant of Grade 1 may, with the approval of the Minister previously obtained, be substituted for two pupil-teachers, but not more than one such substitution shall be made in any one school.

36. The number of teachers and of pupil-teachers in the primary department of a district high school shall be the same as in a public school with the same average attendance as the primary department.

37. No main school or side school, taken separately, shall have a smaller number on its staff than if it were a mixed school of the same average attendance; and the Board shall appoint such additional assistants of Grade 1 or pupil-teachers (if any) as are necessary in order to conform to this requirement.

38. Subject to the approval of the Minister an uncertificated teacher who has completed not less than one year's service as an adult teacher may be appointed as an assistant of Grade 1 to the staff of any school in lieu of a pupil-teacher. Such an appointment shall not in general be for a term of more than one year.

39. If circumstances make it appear expedient that a modification of the staffing of a school or department otherwise provided by these regulations is reasonable or necessary, the Minister may authorize the Board to modify the staffing in such manner and for such period as he thinks fit. Any teacher appointed in accordance with such modification shall be paid such salary and allowance as the Minister may approve: Provided that in no case shall the total salaries and allowances payable to the staff exceed by more than the amount of the salary of an assistant of Grade 1 the total which would have been payable had the modification in staffing not been authorized.

40. (1.) If a special class for children is established, under section 56 of the Act, in connection with any public school, an additional assistant of a grade not higher than Grade 3 may, with the precedent approval of the Minister, be appointed to the staff of such school.

(2.) If such a class or classes be established as a separate school, the staff shall consist of a head or sole teacher of a grade not higher than Grade III and of such assistants of grades not higher than Grade 2, as the Minister shall determine.