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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(ii.) Arithmetic (including household accounts in the case of girls), or elementary mathematics as prescribed for the Intermediate Examination, or practical mathematics, or commercial or actuarial arithmetic.

(iii.) Any appropriate branch of free or instrumental drawing.

(iv.) Physical training, including where possible instruction in swimming and life-saving.

The instruction referred to in (i), (ii), and (iii) must be given regularly throughout the year for not less than 4 units in the case of (i), 3 units in the case of (ii), 2 units in the case of (iii), and in the case of (iv) for not less than 1 unit in the course of the year. In addition the pupil must also take at the technical high school a vocational course approved by the Minister having a direct bearing on industrial, agricultural, domestic, or commercial pursuits, or, with the approval of the Minister previously obtained, a vocational course of a general character in preparation for one or other of the public examinations. The total time given to the instruction in a year must not, with the time given to the subjects enumerated in (i), (ii), (iii), and (iv) hereof, be less than 20 units: Provided that during the tenure of her junior free place every girl shall take not less than 3 units each year of an approved course in home science—namely, an elementary course in general science bearing on the home, and in household economics and hygiene, together with one or more of the following subjects: Plain cookery, laundry-work, needlecraft and garment-making, home nursing.

SENIOR FREE PLACES IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS, DISTRICT HIGH SCHOOLS, AND TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLS.

7. Subject to these regulations—(a.) A senior free place is tenable by any pupil who is the holder of a Senior National Scholarship, or of any other scholarship that the Minister shall approve for this purpose: Provided that the value of any such scholarship is not greater than £55 per annum in the case of any pupil who is obliged to live away from home in order to attend the high school, or more than £20 per annum in any other case.

(b.) A senior free place is tenable by any pupil who has passed the Matriculation Examination, or the Public Service Entrance Examination, or the Intermediate Examination; or has qualified for a pass in the examination for a Senior National Scholarship or any other scholarship that the Minister shall approve for this purpose.

(c.) On the recommendation of the Principal of the secondary school or technical high school, based on the school records and examination results for the year, or of an Inspector of Schools, or, in the case of a district high school, on the recommendation of the Senior Inspector of the district, or in part on such a recommendation and in part on the results of a special examination, a senior free place may be awarded by the Director of Education to any pupil who, after obtaining the educational qualification for a junior free place, has satisfactorily completed a course of instruction during the two years immediately preceding. In the case of a pupil of a secondary school or district high school, such course shall include not less than 36 units of work as defined in the schedule to clause 6 hereof, such 36 units to include at least 8 units in English (Group I), 6 units in Group II, 4 units of a continuous course in Group IV, and, if a subject is chosen from Group III, not less than 6 units therein. In reckoning units for this purpose, credit cannot be given for any subject in which less than 2 units have been completed during the two years, nor for any subject in which the conditions of the schedule to clause 6 have not been satisfied. In the case of a pupil of a technical high school, such course shall include not less than 36 units of work of a course approved by the Director of Education.

NOTE.—Applications to be admitted to the Intermediate Examination under paragraph (b), and applications for admission to senior free places under paragraph (c), must be sent on forms provided by the Education Department to the Director of Education before the 8th September.

8. The school shall admit to a senior free place any pupil qualified under clause 7 hereof, unless, in the opinion of the Director, such pupil can obtain suitable instruction at a school nearer his home, and no school shall admit to a senior free place any pupil not so qualified.

9. A senior free place is tenable until the holder has reached his nineteenth birthday: Provided that if the nineteenth birthday occurs during a school term or quarter the free place shall be tenable until the end of that term or quarter.

10. (i.) The secondary school or district high school shall give to each holder of a senior free place more advanced instruction in the secondary