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SUBJECTS AND AMOUNT OF GRANTS.

31. The Annual Grant is made up of the several Grants, which, with their amounts, are enumerated in the following Articles.

32. Except where it is specially provided otherwise, the sum mentioned is the amount of a year's Grant for each' Unit of Average Attendance.

A fraction of a Unit, if it reaches 5, may be counted as an additional Unit.

33. If the Grant is paid for a period other than a year, the year's Grant is increased or diminished by one-twelfth for each month more or less than a year.

34. Grants are made to English Schools under this Article.

Principal

grants to

(2) A Principal Grant of $5, $6, $7, or $9, is made to schools provided English with a Staff competent to give instruction in the subjects of the Schools. Lower Standards.

(2.) A Principal Grant of 25s., 30s., or 35s., is made to schools provided with a Staff fully competent to give instruction in all subjects of the Seventh Standard, payment being made at the average rate of exchange for the year in which the Grants are earned.

Principal grants to

35. Grants are made to Vernacular Schools under this Article.

(i.) A principal Grant of $5, $6, $7, or $9, is made to schools provided Vernacular

with a Staff competent to give instruction in the subjects of the Lower Schools, Standards.

(ii.) A Principal Grant of 15s., 17/6, or 20s. is male to schools provided with a Staff fully competent to give instruction in all the subjects of the Seventh Standard, payment being made at the average rate of exchange for the year in which the Grants are earned.

36. The Government will decide which of the Grants enumerated in Articles Method of 34 and 35 shall be paid after considering the report and recommendation of the assessment, Inspector upon each of the following four points: provided that it shall not be possible for any school to earn the highest Grant unless it shall have been reported

as "thoroughly efficient" by the Inspector for two consecutive years.

(a.) The suitability of the instruction to the circumstances of the Scholars

and the neigbourhood.

(b.) The thoroughness and intelligence with which the instruction is given. Note.--The Inspector will periodically examine the Scholars so far as may be necessary to enable

him to form an accurate judgment on these points.

(e.) The sufficiency and suitability of the Staff.

Nate. In reporting upon the sufficiency and suitability of the Staff, the Inspector will have regard

to the fitness of each Teacher for the work allotted to him.

(d.) The discipline and organisation.

Note. In reporting upon the discipline and organization. the Inspector will have special regard to the conduct of the Scholars, to the neatness and order of the school premises and furni- ture, and to the proper classification of the Scholars, both for teaching and examination. To meet the requirements respecting discipline, the Managers and Teachers will be expected to satisfy the Inspector that all reasonable care is taken, in the ordinary management of the school, to bring up the Scholars in habits of punctuality, of good manners and language, of cleanliness and neatness, and also to impress upon them the importance of cheerful obedience to duty, of consideration and respect for others, and of honour and truthfulness in word anp

act.

37. Where the Government is satisfied that by reason of a notice of the Epidemic Sanitary Authority under Article 20 or any provision of Law requiring the exclu- grant. sion of certain children, or by reason of the exclusion under medical advice of children from infected houses, the Average Attendance has been seriously diminished, and that consequently a loss of Annual Grant would, but for this Article, be incurred, the Government have power to make a special Grant, not exceeding the amount of such loss, in addition to the ordinary Grant.

38. Grants may be made to schools occupying leased premises of two-thirds Grants in of the rental.

Note.-The Rental is reckoned as not exceeding that paid for similar buildings in the immediate

neighbourhood.

aid of rent.

39.—(i.) Aid may be granted to build new schools if the Government is Building satis fied-

grants.