at the rate of £40 per annum, and a relieving teacher who does not receive
this allowance and requires to travel more than four miles daily to school
shall be paid actual and reasonable travelling-expenses not exceeding £24
per annum. Where a relieving teacher has no fixed abode the Board shall
determine the usual place of residence.

48. In general, no relieving teacher shall be appointed to any position
    unless his services in that position are likely to be required for a period of
    more than one week; and in no case, unless the circumstances are exceptional,
    hall a relieving teacher be appointed during the absence on leave of the
    eacher of a Grade O school.

REMOVAL EXPENSES OF TEACHERS.

49. In any case where, owing to a reduction in the grade of any school
    or to a reduction in the average attendance of any school, a teacher is trans-
    ferred without increase of salary and allowances, or where a teacher is trans-
    ferred under the provisions of section 9 of the Education Amendment Act,
    1919, or through no fault of his own, there may be paid to any such teacher
    the reasonable expenses of his removal to another position.

50. Such expenses may include the actual cost of conveyance of the
    teacher and his family (if any), and also of his household furniture and
    effects, by the cheapest route, but the amount shall in all cases be subject to
    the approval of the Minister.

51. Before a teacher is transferred he shall, where practicable, obtain
    offers from at least two carriers and submit them to the Board, which shall
    authorize the acceptance of the more suitable.

52. Vouchers must be produced for all sums paid in excess of 5s.

53. Cost of removal shall not be allowed on the effects such as the
    following:

Plants in boxes or pots; wood and coal; horses, vehicles, harness, except
when such are portion of equipment in connection with official work;
live-stock and poultry; garden-seats, timber, or material connected
with outside structures; aviaries and beehives; boats.

54. Clauses 14, 15, 20 (so far as it refers to assistant teachers and head
    teachers), 28 to 40 inclusive, and 41 to 54 inclusive, shall come into operation
    on the 1st February, 1925, and until that date the corresponding clauses of
    the regulations which these clauses replace shall operate.

SCHEDULE B.

ORGANIZING TEACHERS.

1. Clauses 11, 12, and 13 of the regulations relating to organizing teachers
   are hereby revoked, and the following substituted therefor:

“11. The salary of an organizing teacher shall be £325 per annum, rising
to £370 by annual increments of £15, together with the same additional
salary according to grading (£10 to £60) as for a public-school teacher graded
in Group 5, and a house allowance of £60 per annum.

“12. The regulations regarding public-school teachers referring to leave
of absence, commencing salaries, annual increments, and removal expenses
shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to organizing teachers.

MODEL COUNTRY SCHOOLS.

2. The regulations relating to model country schools are hereby amended
   by (a) omitting from paragraph (ii) of clause 6 thereof the words “Grade 6,”
   and substituting “Grade 3,” and (b) omitting from paragraph (iii) of the
   same clause the words “Grade 4,” and substituting “Grade 2.”

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