974

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 25

schools of the district, dealing, for the schools generally, with such of the
topics named in clause 8 hereof as it may seem expedient to include, and
giving, in addition, a statement showing, with respect to public and private
registered schools separately, the number of pupils on the roll of Standard
VI, the number of Proficiency, Competency, and Endorsed Competency
Certificates issued, with the corresponding percentage of the number of
candidates on the roll. The report should also indicate the efficiency of
the teaching staff, the means taken to improve the examination status of
uncertificated teachers, the condition particularly of the more remote
schools, the methods of inspection, the steps taken by the inspection
staff to modernize the methods of teaching and to encourage the teachers
to study educational literature, the nature and results of any investigations
teachers or Inspectors have made into school problems, the manner and
extent of the instruction in the principles of temperance, and the success
which has attended the teachers' efforts to foster the civic spirit and to
inculcate patriotism and loyalty to duty.

2. Clause 23 thereof is hereby amended by the addition of the following
   words : "Physical drill shall be given to all boys and girls for a period of not
   less than fifteen minutes daily during school hours, and shall consist of the
   exercises contained in the syllabus of physical training for schools issued by
   the Education Department and in any appendices or notes thereto that
   may be issued from time to time with the authority of the Minister of
   Education; provided that any boy or girl may, on the certificate of a
   medical practitioner or a school medical officer, be exempted from attendance at such instruction."

REGULATIONS FOR PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND MILITARY DRILL.
The regulations for physical education and military drill are hereby
amended by revoking clauses 1 and 2 thereof.

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

Regulations under the Education Act, 1914, amended.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 25th day of March, 1922.
Present :

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE W. F. MASSEY, P.C., PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him
by the Education Act, 1914, 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 out in the Schedule hereto in the regulations under the
said Act made by Order in Council dated the twelfth day of April, one
thousand nine hundred and fifteen ; and, with the like advice and consent,
doth prescribe that this Order shall come into force on the date of the
first publication thereof in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.
REGULATIONS FOR NATIVE SCHOOLS.
XVIII.-Scholarships.

CLAUSES 2 and 3 of the subsection relating to agricultural scholarships
are hereby deleted, and the following clauses substituted therefor :
"2. Agricultural scholarships shall be tenable for two years, either in
the service of a farmer or at a farm under the control of the Agricultural
Department as may be arranged, or at a school or college established for
the secondary education of Maori boys where, in the opinion of the Department, a suitable course of theoretical and practical instruction in
agriculture and general farmwork is provided.
"3. The total payments to or on behalf of the holder shall not exceed
£30 in any one year, or £60 in all."

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