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than one hour and a half before the close of morning or afternoon school,
as the case may be. The register shall be marked and kept in accordance
with the directions printed thereon.

10. No pupil shall be admitted to a recognized class under these
    regulations who is on the roll of any public school or secondary school, or
    is under the age of fourteen years, unless such pupil is—

(a.) The holder of a free place under the regulations governing free
places in technical schools; or

(b.) Attending a course approved by the Director as part of his primary
or secondary education, as the case may be.

11. All registers of manual, technical, and continuation classes and of
    technical high school classes shall be open to inspection by officers of the De-
    partment deputed thereto, and shall be preserved by the controlling authority
    or the managers, as the case may be, for not less than five years: Provided
    that any register shall be forwarded to the Department if asked for
    within such period.

12. Technical and continuation classes must be open to all persons of
    good character complying with these regulations and with the rules of the
    controlling authority or managers of the classes. Such rules must not
    require any test of a religious nature, nor in the case of free-place pupils
    any payment on account of fees or any other payment not imposed on fee-
    paying pupils.

A. CONTINUATION CLASSES.

13. Continuation classes may be held in the subjects named in Division
    I of this clause.

NOTE.—A continuation class means a recognized class giving instruc-
tion in such of the ordinary public-school subjects, or other subjects of
general or commercial education, as are prescribed in Division I hereunder,
but are not part of a recognized technical course.

Division I.

(1.) English, to include composition and the study of the work or works
of some standard author or authors.

(2.) French, German, Italian, Maori, Latin, Greek, or other approved
language, the teaching to include in every case a reasonable amount
of continuous reading-matter, and, in the case of a living language,
to be directed to the practical end of giving the pupils the power
of speaking and corresponding in the language.

(3.) Arithmetic, including commercial arithmetic, accounts, and mensura-
tion.

(4.) Geography, including commercial geography.

(5.) English history, civics, general history, constitutional history, commer-
cial history.

(6.) Elocution.

(7.) Vocal music, which must include singing from notes, and the elements
of the theory of music.

B. TECHNICAL CLASSES.

14. Technical classes may be held in the subjects named in the following
    divisions:—

Division I.

Elementary commercial subjects and subjects of commercial routine, such
as elementary correspondence and précis-writing, copying, indexing,
filing, shorthand, typing, and the mechanical operations concerned with
postage, telegraphing, and banking.

Division II.

Higher commercial subjects, such as actuarial arithmetic, book-keeping and
accounting, banking and currency, mercantile and commercial practice
and law, economics of industry and commerce, elementary mathematics,
elementary practical mathematics and practical plane and solid geo-
metry, economic geography, modern history, commercial French.

Division III.

Mathematics and science as applied to specific industries, machine-con-
struction, building-construction, metallurgy, mineralogy, chemistry of
commerce, engineering (civil, mechanical, electrical, mining, sanitary),
telegraphy, architecture, building and allied industries, printing and
process industries, electrical industries, wood- and metal-working
industries, agricultural and horticultural industries, and similar subjects.