Dec. 13.] · THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3483

31st December following, the average attendance shall be the average attendance for the term or the mean of the average attendances for the terms during the whole of which the school has been open.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS: SALARIES, GRADING, STAFFING, ETC.

The regulations relating to salaries, grading, and staffing of public schools made by Orders in Council dated 12th January, 1925, 28th October, 1925, 22nd March, 1926, 13th April, 1927, 22nd August, 1927, and 13th December, 1927, are hereby amended as follows:—

1. By deleting subclause (2) of clause 10 thereof and substituting the following:—

(2) Subject to the provisions of clause 16 hereof, the average attendance on which the amount payable from 1st February in any year for or on account of the salary of the teacher of a school of Grade 0 shall be determined shall be the average attendance for the current term or the yearly average attendance for the preceding year, whichever is the higher, provided that the salary for the month of January shall be at the same rate as for the preceding month.

2. By deleting from clause 18 the words “quarterly average attendance of a school,” and substituting “average attendance of a school for any term.”

3. By deleting from clause 21 thereof the words “30th September” wherever they occur, and substituting “31st August.”

4. By deleting clause 22 and substituting:—

“If at the beginning of any term it appears that a school in Grade 0 has an average attendance for the last preceding term of not less than eleven or for each of two terms immediately preceding of not less than ten (as the case may be) the school may, at the discretion of the Board, be placed in Grade 1.”

5. (a) By deleting from clauses 23, 29, and from the proviso to clause 30 the word “quarter” wherever it occurs, and substituting the word “term.”

(b) By deleting from clause 23 the words “quarterly average attendances for the several quarters,” and substituting “average attendances for the several terms.”

6. By deleting from clause 29 the words “averages for two consecutive quarters are both,” and substituting “the mean average attendance for two consecutive terms is.”

7. By deleting from clause 30 the word “quarters,” and substituting “terms.”

FOURTH SCHEDULE.

ARCHITECTURAL BURSARIES.

1. The Director of Education (hereinafter referred to as “the Director”) may award an architectural bursary, tenable at any school of architecture recognized by the University of New Zealand, to any person who has satisfied all the following conditions—namely, that—

(1) He is not over the age of twenty years on the last date on which applications for a bursary are receivable (namely, the 1st day of March in each year);

(2) He has passed the Matriculation Examination of the University of New Zealand, and has obtained at such examination not less than 45 per cent. of the maximum number of marks assigned in each of the subjects (a) physics and (b) drawing; and

(3) (a) He has satisfactorily completed at a technical school in New Zealand an approved course in Carpentry and Building Construction occupying not less than four continuous years and not less than four hundred hours in each year: Provided that the Director may, in his discretion, accept in lieu of the aforesaid course in a technical school an approved course of at least four years of secondary education, of which not less than two years and not less than fourteen hundred hours have been occupied in a Carpentry and Building Construction course; or

(b) (i) He has satisfactorily completed at a technical school in New Zealand an approved preparatory course in Carpentry and Building Construction occupying not less than two continuous years and not less than four hundred hours in each year; and (ii) he has, further, in succession thereto, satisfactorily completed an intermediate course in Carpentry and Building Con-