MANUAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10869, 19 January 1901, Page 5

MANUAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

THE BEGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT. GRANTS FOR SPECIAL SUBJECTS. (FHES3 ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, January 18. The Education Department lias prepared the regulations under the Manual and Technical Instructions Act, 1900. The controlling authority is to receive from ih»r Public Fund a capitation of three-halfpence for every attendance of a pupil over thirteen years old at the continuation class (that is, a class commencing not earlier than 4 p.m.). Grants are to be given for special subjects in school classes, and include one shilling per head per annum for modelling, etc., in Standard 11., and sixpence per head for kindergarten work; two shillings per head for modelling bush, wire, and basket-work, etc., in Standards 111. and IV.; two and sixpence for modelling, drawing, painting, carving, etc., in classes nob lower than Standard V.; two and sixpence for each pupil in or about Standard V., who shall have received not less than twenty lessons in first aid and ambulance (boys), first aid and nursing (girls), cottage gardening, swimming, and life-saving; ten shillings per annum for each boy who has undergone thirty weeks' instruction at two hours weekly in wood or iron work; ten shillings per annum for each girl who has received not less than forty hours' instruction in cookery or dairy work during the year (for both courses fifteen shillings); five shillings for each girl who has had twenty hours at laundry work or forty hours' dressmaking; two and sixpence for each pupil who has had not less than forty hours , elementary agriculture, physics, or chemistry. For buildings for school and special classes established by a Board of Education the whole cost may be granted, and for buildings for associated classes, controlled by the Board, two-thirds of the cost, and all other classes half the cost. Grants for material may cover the whole cost in the case of sclhvol classes or classes for teachers and instructors. For other classes they shall not in general exceed two-thirds of the cost. The Minister is empowered to establish scholarships for competition among the pupils attending any classes tinder the Act.