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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 69

3. By adding the following clause:—
   “19a. In the event of the death of a teacher while in the service there may, with the approval of the Minister, be paid to his near relatives (i.e., widow or dependent children) an amount calculated as follows:—
   (a) In the case of a teacher with ten years’ and under twenty years’ service, a sum equal to salary for one month from date of death.
   (b) In the case of a teacher with twenty years’ service or over, a sum equal to salary for six weeks from date of death.”
   This clause shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 1st December, 1927.
4. By deleting from clause 23 the words “31st December” and substituting therefor the words “31st January.”
5. By deleting from clauses 25 and 30 the word “quarter” and substituting therefor the word “term.”
6. (1) By deleting the proviso to subclause (4) of clause 28.
   (2) By adding the following subclauses to clause 28:—
   “(5) Until the Minister is satisfied that probationary assistants are available, an assistant, certificated or uncertificated, may be substituted for each probationary assistant, preference being given firstly to teachers who have completed their course at a teachers’ training college on 31st January preceding, and secondly to teachers who have had not more than one year’s service as adult teachers.
   (6) The term of service of a substituted assistant shall terminate on the 31st January following the date of appointment: Provided that, with the approval of the Director, such appointment may be extended for an additional year.
   (7) For the purposes of the Public Service Classification and Superannuation Amendment Act, 1908, and for those purposes only, the service of every certificated teacher employed in lieu of a probationary assistant shall be regarded as permanent.
   (8) All certificated teachers employed in lieu of probationary assistants shall receive salary as provided for assistant teachers of Grade I under Part II of Schedule IV of these regulations. Uncertificated teachers so employed shall receive a salary of Grade I as provided in clause 20 hereof.”

NINTH SCHEDULE.
INTERMEDIATE EXAMINATION.

THE regulations relating to the Intermediate Examination, made by Order in Council dated 17th January, 1927, and amended by Order in Council dated 26th April, 1927, are hereby further amended by deleting from clause 3 the following words: “Any such fee paid will be refunded to those of the candidates who pass the examination and who, within two months of the date of publication of the results of the examination, are certified by the Principal of a secondary school, technical school, or district high school to have entered upon a senior free place as a result of passing the examination.”

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under the Education Act, 1914, relating to Free Places, amended.

CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this 14th day of October, 1929.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Education Act, 1914, and the amendments of that Act, and of all other powers enabling him in that 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 amend, in the manner set forth in the Schedule hereto, the regulations at present