Nov. 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3245

Education Act, 1914.—Regulations.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 20th day of November, 1925.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR FRANCIS BELL PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in him by the Education Act, 1914, and its amendments, and all other powers and authorities enabling him in this behalf, 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 revoke Sections I, II, III, IV, V, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIV, and XV of the regulations for manual and technical instruction in force at the date of coming into operation of these regulations relating to manual and technical instruction, and in lieu thereof doth make the regulations set set forth in the Schedule hereto; and, with the like advice and consent, doth prescribe that this Order shall come into force on the first day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATIONS FOR MANUAL AND TECHNICAL INSTRUCTION.

I. HANDWORK IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

1. (i.) HANDWORK shall be regularly taught, in close correlation with other subjects of the syllabus, throughout the public schools of the Dominion, by the permanent public-school staffs.

(ii.) The necessary materials for such handwork exercises will be supplied by the Department to the several Education Boards, for distribution to the schools.

(iii.) Including stocks in hand at the beginning of the previous year, the rate of supply of each kind of material to each Education Board shall be proportional to the total number of children in average attendance throughout the district in standards or classes using such material.

(iv.) The actual cost of distribution, apart from salaries, will be paid by the Department on presentation of the necessary vouchers by the Education Boards concerned.

(v.) The Education Board of each district shall—

(a.) Ascertain in December of each year from the head teachers in all the public schools of the district the quantities of each kind of material remaining at the end of the school year, and shall supply to each school the difference between the amount allowed by the Department and the unused balance from the previous year.

(b.) Report to the Department before the 31st day of March in each year the total amount of each kind of material left on hand in the district at the end of the previous year, and such stocks shall be taken into account when supplies for the next succeeding year are being furnished by the Department.

2. (i.) Where there is no female teacher on the staff of a school below Grade III a payment of 15s. per annum will be made for each unit of the average attendance of the pupils on the roll of such school who receive instruction in needlework (as defined in the Standard Regulations) for not less than two hours weekly regularly throughout the school year: Provided that in the case of a school of Grade I or Grade II the total payments for such instruction in needlework shall not be less than £10 per annum where the instruction is given regularly throughout the school year.

(ii.) In cases where, in accordance with subclause (i) hereof, needlework classes are conducted by special teachers not on the permanent staff of the school, the presence of such special teacher shall be attested by her dated signature placed in the margin of the primary-school register, opposite the attendance entries of the class or classes taught by her, on each several occasion of her visit to the school for the purpose of giving such instruction.

3. Special manual-training classes for pupils of public schools in wood-work, metalwork, cookery, and housewifery, conducted by instructors classified under the regulations for the classification of teachers in technical
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