THE NEW FREE-PLACE REGULATIONS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 69, 14 December 1937, Page 13

THE NEW FREE-PLACE REGULATIONS

A circular from the Education Department, drawing attention to certain points in tlie new free-place regulations was received by tbe Napier Secondary Education Board at the monthly meeting last niglit. The eircuiar stated that tlie only feepaying pupils in day schools for the future would be pupils admitted to a post-primary school after they had reached the age of sixteen years and to wliom tlie director liad not consented to a free place being awarcled; pupils over liineteen years of age, if tlie Minister liad nofc extended the free place ; pupils who were uot full-time (unless the conseut of the director had been obtained) ; pupils wlio had transferred from oue school to another without permission, at times other than the end of tlie second year of their course ; pupils whose free places had lapsed or been determined through unsatisfactory attendance and conduct; pupils in any of the four largest towns who were living outside the boundary of the school at which they are in attendance, and pupils entering New Zealand from overseas with temporary permits from the Customs Department. Bupils under fourteen years of age who had not obtained a primary school certificate were not to he admitted even as payiiig pupils. The principal of the Girls' Higli Scliool, Miss D. M. Arthur, commented that it was iuteresting to note that, subject to certain conditions, -pupils entering tlie school with a free place could now holtl it until the end of the year of their nineteenth birtli, instead of reqtiiriug ,. earn it again with their interinediate certificate at, the end of ia two years' junidr free place. —