Dec. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3443

(3.) In granting recognition to any hospital as a training-school the Board shall specify the number of trainees who may be trained therein in each year. The acceptance at the hospital of a larger number of trainees than the number specified shall be a ground for the cancellation of the recognition of the hospital as a training-school for maternity nurses.

(4.) The Board may, if the provisions of these regulations are not complied with or if the course of training provided at the hospital is not satisfactory, cancel its recognition of the hospital as a training-school upon giving to the governing body thereof not less than three months’ notice of its intention so to do.

10. (1.) The course of training for maternity nurses to be given at every State maternity hospital and at every hospital approved as a training-school shall be of not less than four months’ duration in the case of a person who is a registered nurse, and not less than twelve months’ duration in the case of any other person :

Provided that the course of training shall not be deemed to have been completed unless and until, in the case of a registered nurse, the trainee has during that period assisted at not less than twenty cases of labour and nursed not less than twenty lying-in women during the ten days following labour, and, in the case of any other person, the trainee has during her training assisted at not less than forty cases of labour and nursed not less than forty lying-in women during the ten days following labour.

(2.) Every trainee shall be given practical instruction in the wards of the hospital by the Matron or Sister in charge or other person who is a registered maternity nurse or midwife.

(3.) Courses of lectures on the subjects set out in the Third Schedule hereto, and on such other subjects as may be added thereto by the Board by notice published in the Gazette, shall be given by duly registered medical practitioners, registered midwives, or other competent instructors approved by the Registrar, and shall be attended by all trainees. The scope and extent of the instruction shall be such as the Board from time to time determines and notifies to the governing body of each training-school.

11. A trainee, not being a registered nurse, who shows a want of acquaintance with the ordinary subjects of elementary education may, with the approval of the Registrar, be rejected as a trainee.

12. The governing body of every hospital recognized as a training-school for maternity nurses shall furnish to the Board such reports on the staff, the patients, and the trainees as the Board may from time to time require.

Midwives.

13. (1.) The governing body of every hospital which desires to establish at the hospital a training-school for midwives and to have it recognized for the purposes of the said Act shall apply for such recognition to the Registrar.

(2.) No hospital shall be recognized by the Board as a training-school for midwives unless—

(a.) The matron or Sister in charge of the hospital, if a maternity hospital, or of the maternity annexe of the hospital, is specially qualified for the training of midwives and is approved by the Board ;

(b.) There can be given at the hospital the course of instruction hereinafter referred to ; and

(c.) The other requirements in regard to the training of midwives can be adequately complied with.

(3.) In granting recognition to any hospital as a training-school the Board shall specify the number of persons who may be trained therein in each year. The acceptance at the hospital of a larger number of trainees than the number specified shall be a ground for the cancellation of the recognition of the hospital as a training-school for midwives.

(4.) The Board may, if the provisions of these regulations are not complied with or if the course of training provided at the hospital is not satisfactory, cancel its recognition of the hospital as a training-school upon giving to the governing body thereof not less than three months’ notice of its intention so to do.

14. (1.) The course of training for midwives shall be of not less than four months’ duration in the case of a person who is both a registered nurse and a registered maternity nurse, and in the case of a person who is a registered maternity nurse shall be of not less than four months’ duration following on a period of practice as a registered maternity nurse of not less than twelve months during which she has assisted at not less than twelve cases of labour :