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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

(ii.) A married assistant shall receive by way of addition to salary the
sum of £40 per annum under the same conditions as are prescribed under
the regulations for salaries of public-school teachers.
(iii.) The provisions regarding commencing salaries on appointment,
annual increments, and salaries payable on transfer prescribed by regulations for public schools shall apply to junior high schools.

10. The regulations regarding salaries of relieving teachers and leave of absence of teachers in public schools shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to junior high schools.

11. (i.) The course of instruction in a junior high school shall cover three years, and any pupil admitted to such a school shall remain therein until he has completed the course.
    (ii.) The class doing the work of the first-year junior high school course shall be called the Seventh Grade; the class doing the work of the second year shall be called the Eighth Grade; and the class doing the work of the third year shall be called the Ninth Grade.

12. (i.) All pupils in the junior high school shall for approximately twelve hours per week receive the same instruction in the following subjects: English, Arithmetic, History and Civics, Geography, Elementary Science, Drawing, Singing, and Physical Training.
    (ii.) All pupils shall also take during the remaining portion of the school week a supplementary course of instruction chosen from the following: Academic, manual, commercial, agricultural, art, or other approved course.

13. The supplementary course to be taken by each pupil shall be determined by the principal after consultation with the parent and the head teacher of the school previously attended; provided that provision shall be made, after a similar consultation, for a change of course if necessary.

14. The provisions of sections 59 to 69 of the Education Act, 1914, shall apply to pupils attending junior high schools.

15. (i.) Applications for appointments to positions in the junior high schools shall be advertised for, and appointment shall be made in the same way as is provided in the Act for special positions in public schools; provided that in making his recommendations the Senior Inspector of Public Schools shall co-operate with the Chief Inspector of Secondary Schools and the Superintendent of Technical Schools; and provided further that the approval of the Minister shall be obtained before an appointment is made to the position of principal.
    (ii.) In making appointments the Board shall have regard to the need for teachers with special qualifications for teaching French, Latin, mathematics, science, drawing, commercial, and manual subjects.

16. Each junior high school shall be subject to inspection by officers of the Education Department, and copies of inspection reports shall be forwarded to the Board and to the Minister.

17. When in consequence of the establishment of a junior high school the two upper classes of a public school are removed, the staff of the latter school shall be modified at the discretion of the Minister, so that, while the remaining classes of the school are staffed at least as well as before the establishment of the junior high school, the first and third assistants may be transferred to some other school, but the number of the staff remaining shall not be less than for a school with the same average attendance.

18. In connection with each junior high school there shall be a Committee consisting of nine members—namely, three members elected by the parents of the pupils attending the junior high school, three members elected by the members of the School Committees of the public schools of the district as defined by the Education Board, including the schools from which Standards V and VI have been transferred to a junior high school, and three members elected by the Education Board of the district.

19. The representatives of parents on the Committee and the representatives of the School Committees shall be elected in such manner as the Education Board shall arrange.

20. There shall be paid to the Committee of the junior high school such incidental allowances (not exceeding £50 per annum plus a capitation of 10s. per pupil) as the Minister shall determine.

21. The provisions of sections 44 to 53 of the Act regarding the meetings of School Committees, the powers and duties of School Committees, and the School Fund shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the Committees of junior high schools.

22. Any other matters arising during the initial stages of the establishment of junior high schools shall be dealt with in such manner as the Minister shall determine.

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

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