New regulations for manual and technical instruction have been gazetted, and they will come in force on February 1 next. It is provided that handwork shall be regularly taught, in close correlation with other subjects and the syllabus, throughout the public schools of the Dominion, by the permanent materials to bo supplied by the department to the several education boards for distribution to the schools. Conditions are laid down under which woodwork, metal work, cookery, and housewifery are to be taught. No pupils are to bo admitted who are doing work in other subjects lower than the Standard V. The regulations prescribe the method for electing managers of teohnical schools, and stipulate that one-third of the members of every Teohnical School Board shall retire annually, but shall be eligible for re-election. Provision is made for the classification of teachers in teohnical schools. The regulations set out the annual increments payable to principals and teachers, ranging from £lO to £25 for men, and from £lO to £l2 for women.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3743, 8 December 1925, Page 80
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