Education Acts Compilation.

Expenses of administration to be appropriated by Generai Assembly, 1877, No. 2i, sec. 8

i9oi, No. 38, seo. 5 Act not to interfere sohoohAot" 1 * 1 1877, No. 21, seo. 9 Act not to be binding on Maoris.

Act not to interfere with Industrial Schools Act. 1877, No. 21, seo. 9

Act not to be binding on Maoris. Ibid, sec. 10

6. (1.) Except where otherwise provided by this Act, all j A ,-, i . . . , . * * ... A li_ j.l. T\ moneys required for the administration of this Act by the Department shall be defrayed out of moneys to be from time to time a pp ro p r j a ted by the General Assembly for the following purposes :— 5 (a.) In payment of salaries and other expenses of the Department of Education. (£ ) (j_) j n payment to the Board of every district of a sum sufficient to pay the salaries of teachers and pupilteachers in the district in accordance with this Act; 10 and (ii.) In payment to the Board of every district of a sum of two hundred and fifty pounds per annum, together with a sum of eleven shillings and threepence per annum for each child in average daily attendance at a 15 public school : Provided that the Governor may at any time, by Order in Council, declare that, in lieu of the payments last named, there shall be thereafter paid to the Board of every district the sum of twelve shillings per annum 20 for each child in average daily attendance; and, in addition, to every Board having less than eight thousand children in average daily attendance, a sum of two hundred and fifty pounds per annum. The average daily attendance shall be computed in 25 manner prescribed by regulations. (c.) For the establishment and maintenance of normal or training schools, and in grants to Boards for the maintenance of such schools already established and under their control. 30 (d.) For the erection of schoolhouses, and for any other purpose for which such moneys may be applied or appropriated. (2.) Subject to any such appropriation, regulations may be made prescribing the times and manner at and in which such moneys shall 35 be paid or applied. 7. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to interfere with or affect the provisions of " The Industrial Schools Act, 1882," or any Act amending the same, nor with any industrial or reformatory school established or which may be established under any Act or 40 Ordinance. 8. Nothing in this Act shall be binding on any Maori; but any M aor i shall be at liberty to send his children to a public school under this Act, subject to the regulations for the time being in force in such school. 45 The word " Maori" shall include every person of the aboriginal race of New Zealand and every person one of whose parents was a native of such race : But no halfcaste shall be deemed to be a Maori within the interpretation of this Act unless he shall be living as a member 50 of some Native tribe or community.

6