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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 18

girl shall include adequate instruction in elementary domestic science and hygiene, and in one or more of the domestic arts extending in general over not less than two years of the secondary course provided. No pupils shall be compelled to take Latin or to take more than one language besides English.

(3.) The school year shall consist of three terms of about thirteen weeks each.

(4.) The Principal shall cause the school to be examined during each term; provided that it shall not be necessary for the school to be so examined in any term in which it is examined by some other person appointed by the Minister or the Board; and provided further that it shall not be necessary to include in such examination pupils sitting for public examinations during the term.

19. Subject to the general direction of the Board, the Principal shall have the following powers:—

(1.) He shall have control of the school buildings and premises, and of the apparatus and furniture thereof.

(2.) He shall have the power to recommend the appointment or dismissal of assistant teachers or of other officers of the school, and to allot their several duties; and no assistant teacher or other officer of the school shall be appointed until the Principal has been consulted.

(3.) He shall have the power in case of grave neglect of duty or of gross misbehaviour to suspend any assistant teacher or other officer, but shall forthwith report his action to the Chairman, who shall thereupon confirm or overrule his action until the next meeting of the Board, when the matter may be determined; but the action of the Principal shall hold good until the Chairman or the Board has determined the matter.

(4.) He shall be supreme over the discipline, and may suspend any pupil, reporting his action to the Board at their next meeting, and the action of the Principal shall hold good until the Board has come to some determination in regard to the matter. He shall not expel any pupil without the sanction of the Board.

(5.) He shall regulate all text-books, methods, and organization in accordance with clause 18 hereof, and, subject to the same clause and to the regulations under the Education Act, shall determine the course of study for each pupil.

20. The Board may establish or license hostels or boarding-houses for the accommodation of pupils, and may place such hostels or boarding-houses under the charge of teachers of the school or other suitable persons, and shall provide for the inspection of such hostels or boarding-houses.

21. The rents, profits, and income of all real and personal estate which may be vested in the Board, or granted or acquired as a site or sites or otherwise for the benefit of the school, or given, devised, or bequeathed to the Board for the benefit of the school without any trusts or powers of a different nature being expressed in the instrument so giving, devising, or bequeathing to the Board, and all reserves of land which may be hereafter made for the benefit of the school, shall be held and dealt with by the Board under and subject to all such powers, provisions, and conditions as are contained in the Education Reserves Act, 1908, and its amendments, as if the school were a high school within the meaning of that Act.

22. Subject to the subsequent clauses of this scheme, the rents, profits, and annual income of all real and personal estate that may be vested in the Board, together with all funds which may from time to time be derived from fees or payments made in respect of pupils attending the school, together with any annual or other allowance that may be made by the General Assembly or the Government of New Zealand, shall be applied by the Board for the maintenance of the school, and the payment of the salaries and expenses connected therewith, and for exhibitions and scholarships for the pupils therein: Provided that the Board shall have power to set apart, if it sees fit, out of the said rents, profits, and annual income such part as it considers advisable, either as an addition to the capital fund, which shall then be invested in the manner hereinafter mentioned and dealt with as part of such capital fund, or as reserve fund to meet extraordinary expenses, which shall be invested and dealt with in such manner as the Board directs.

23. With respect to any moneys bequeathed or given to the Board for the school, and with respect also to all rent, profit, and annual income set apart under the preceding clause, the Board shall have power to invest the same in the purchase or upon first mortgages of freehold land in New Zealand, or upon the stocks, bonds, bills, or debentures of the Government of New Zealand, or issued by any local authority therein under any Act of the General Assembly, and may from time to time vary such investments.

24. The Board may, out of such moneys as may come into its hands by virtue of any Act or otherwise for the benefit of the school, expend any sum or sums in purchasing land and erecting and maintaining suitable buildings and premises thereon for use as school buildings, and may, subject to the approval of the Minister, expend any sum or sums in purchasing land and erecting and maintaining suitable buildings thereon for use as boardinghouses for the pupils, or as residences for the masters, teachers, or other officers employed in connection with the school.

Dated at Wellington this 24th day of March, 1927.

R. A. WRIGHT,
Minister of Education.

Declaring Tires to be super-resilient for the Purpose of the Motor-lorry Regulations, 1927.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by the Motor-lorry Regulations, 1927, and by section 12 of the Acts Interpretation Act, 1924, I, Richard Francis Bollard, for and on behalf of the Minister of Public Works, do hereby certify the kinds, brands, and descriptions of tires hereinafter set out as being super-resilient for the purpose of the Motor-lorry Regulations, 1927, until and unless the substance of the said tires is so worn as to cause them to lose the character of super-resilience:—

Tire Trade-name. Description.

1. Ardanac .. .. Ordinary pneumatic type of cover with special rubber core filling.
2. Channon-Marshall .. .. Ordinary pneumatic type of cover with core and ball filling.
3. Dayton Airless .. .. Pneumatic type of cover with core and air-pockets.
4. Firestone Removable Maxi-cushion “R.M.C.” Solid tire, but specially flexible and with air-pockets.
5. Goodrich Pneuflex .. .. Solid tire with transverse holes.
6. Goodrich Rubber Ace Tire with pneumatic type of cover having two-piece rubber core.
7. Goodyear pneumatic cushion Demountable solid tire with large cavity.
8. Lambert Trublpruf .. .. Solid tire with transverse holes.
9. Macintosh N.A.P. .. .. Solid tire with large cavity.

Dated at Wellington, this 30th day of March, 1927.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
For Minister of Public Works.

Appointments in the Public Service.

Office of the Public Service Commissioner,
Wellington, 29th March, 1927.

THE Public Service Commissioner has made the following appointments in the Public Service:—

Charles Fogen, Esquire Magistrate’s Court, Gisborne,
Michael McCormack, Esquire Magistrate’s Court, Hamilton,
John Herbert Fulton, Esquire Magistrate’s Court, Invercargill,
Frederick Robert Pearson, Esquire Magistrate’s Court, Napier,
William Frederick Southam, Esquire Magistrate’s Court, New Plymouth,
William Thomas Hooker, Esquire Magistrate’s Court, Palmerston N.,
Alfred William John Huston, Esquire Magistrate’s Court, Timaru,
John Curran, Esquire Magistrate’s Court, Wanganui,
John Haughton Morrison, Esquire Magistrate’s Court, Blenheim,
Percival John Norwood, Esquire Magistrate’s Court, Whangarei,
John Robert Esson, Esquire Magistrate’s Court, Hastings,
Richard John Barrett, Esquire Magistrate’s Court, Hawera,
James Wilkie Crighton, Esquire Magistrate’s Court, Masterton,
Michael Cussen, Esquire Magistrate’s Court, Nelson,
Charles Lawrence James, Esquire Magistrate’s Court, Oamaru,
Robert Lloyd, Esquire Magistrate’s Court, Thames,

to be Maintenance Officers for the purposes of the Destitute Persons Amendment Act, 1926, as from the 1st day of April, 1927.

A. C. TURNBULL, Secretary.