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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 85

course and has made satisfactory progress in the work of those classes, the bursary shall forthwith be determined unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the Director that any failure in attendance, diligence, or progress was due to illness or other sufficient cause, and on such determination the holder shall, if the Director so requires, refund the fees paid on his behalf.

10. On receipt of an unfavourable report on the attendance, diligence, or progress of the holder of a bursary from the Chairman of the Professorial Board concerned, the Director may at any time determine the tenure of the bursary, and the holder thereof shall, if the Director so requires, refund the fees paid on his behalf.

11. Generally the conditions that require to be fulfilled before the holder of a bursary can be considered as having made satisfactory progress shall include the passing of the college examination in the subject or subjects approved for him as described in clause 8 hereof, or the passing of a section of a university degree examination in Arts or Science, or the attainment of success in connection with the Teachers’ Class B or Class A Examination.

12. These regulations shall not apply in the case of bursaries heretofore awarded, but such bursaries shall continue to be governed by the regulations under which they were awarded.

ENGINEERING BURSARIES.

1. The Director of Education (hereinafter referred to as “the Director”) may award an Engineering Bursary, tenable at any school of Engineering and Technical Science recognized by the University of New Zealand, to any person who has satisfied all the following conditions, namely, that—

(a.) He is not over the age of twenty years on the last date on which applications for a bursary are receivable :

(b.) (i.) He has passed the preliminary examination in Engineering of the University of New Zealand, and has obtained at the examination not less than 45 per cent. of the maximum number of marks assigned in each of the subjects (a) physical science and (b) drawing; and, further, has satisfactorily completed at a technical school in New Zealand an approved course in Engineering occupying not less than four continuous years and not less than four hundred hours in each year :

Provided that the Director may, in his discretion, accept in lieu of the aforesaid course in a technical school an approved course of at least four years of secondary education, of which not less than two years and not less than fourteen hundred hours have been occupied in an Engineering course at a technical school; or

(ii.) He has satisfactorily completed at a technical school in New Zealand (i) an approved preparatory course in Engineering occupying not less than two continuous years and not less than four hundred hours in each year; and (ii) has, further, in succession thereto, satisfactorily completed an intermediate course in Engineering at recognized technical classes occupying not less than three continuous years and not less than one hundred and fifty hours in each year; and (iii) has served as an apprentice or pupil in some branch of Engineering (civil, mechanical, or electrical) for a period of not less than three years; and (iv) has passed such examinations or obtained such certificates as the Director of Education may approve :

(c.) He has been resident in New Zealand for one year immediately preceding the date of application for a bursary :

(d.) He has been recommended by the controlling authority of any technical school or college in New Zealand as being worthy of holding a bursary :

(e.) He produces satisfactory evidence as to character and health :

(f.) He has entered, by his parent or guardian or some other person approved by the Director, into a bond to repay the amount paid in allowances and fees in respect to his bursary in case he should fail to complete satisfactorily the prescribed course.

2. An application for a bursary must be made on the form provided, and must be lodged, together with the necessary certificates, with the secretary of the controlling authority on or before the 1st day of March in any year; and the secretary shall thereupon transmit the applications, together with the recommendation of the controlling authority, to the Director of Education at Wellington.

3. The term of a bursary shall be three years, if the holder so long fulfils the prescribed conditions; provided that under special circumstances, on the recommendation of the engineering faculty concerned, the Director may extend the term for one year or two years longer.