Assistant Teachers.

1. Assistant teachers will be allowed to serve two years in a high school as pupil-teachers, qualifying themselves for University examinations in Arts, and receiving such salaries as they may agree for with the head teacher without detriment to their position in State schools—that is, at the end of the two years they shall be entitled to such appointments as they would have held by remaining in State schools, and the two years at the high school shall count as two years of service on their average classification for the last three years. Always provided that, if they are dismissed from the high school for misconduct, it shall count as dismissal from a State school. In such a case, they shall have an appeal to the department, which may cancel the dismissal without restoring them to the high school, and which shall then place them as soon as may be in a State school.

2. Assistant teachers having served ten years shall have the right to claim that they may be placed as head teachers in the following ratio:—The percentage of 7½ shall be valued thus—Above 6 = 5; above = 4½; above 3 = 3; above 1½ = 2; and under 1½ = 1. The certificates then counting as with head teachers, there will be nine classes; and those whose value has been 65 in the last seven years shall be entitled to head-teacherships in Class B; those whose value is 60 in Class C; 55 in Class D; and 50 in Class E.