Order C.—Border Department.—Aborigines.

1. To place the means of getting instruction in the ordinary branches of elementary knowledge within the reach of the native youth, at certain eligible stations approved by His Excellency the Governor; and to promote page 9 the suitable industrial training, both of the male and female scholars, are the general objects to which Government aid shall be appropriated.

2. Where school is kept for not less than four hours daily by a duly qualified teacher, assisted by another qualified teacher, and the average daily attendance is not less than one hundred, a fixed annual allowance will be made in aid of salaries, not exceeding £100 for the first teacher, £40 for the assistant teacher, and £10 for the female superintending the needle-work of the girls.

3. Where school is kept for not less than four hours daily by a teacher qualified to give instruction in English as well as in the native language, and the average daily attendance is not less than fifty, a fixed annual allowance will be made in aid of salaries; not exceeding £40 for the teacher, and £10 for the female superintending the needlework of the girls. Where the teacher is capable of given instruction only in the native language, a fixed annual allowance will be made in aid of his salary, not exceeding £20, provided the average daily attendance is not less than twenty-five.

4. To encourage native youth to become skilled workmen, an allowance of £15 per annum, maintenance money, will be made to males who, after one year's probation, shall have entered into a definite engagement with the authorities of the institution with which they are connected, for a further period not exceeding four years nor less than two years, as apprentices to one of the following trades: carpentry, wagonmaking, blacksmith's work, tailoring, shoemaking, printing, aad bookbinding. This amount will also be allowed during the probationary year.

5. To encourage the female portion of the native youth to become habituated to and skilled in the performance of the duties of domestic civilized life, an allowance of £10 per annum, maintenance money, will be made to females who, after three months' probation, shall have entered into a definite engagement with the authorities of the institution, for a further period, not exceeding two years, nor less than one year, as apprentices to household work.

6. It shall be incumbent on the authorities to provide suitable elementary education, either morning or evening, for all apprentices.

7. The number of those who can be received as apprentices being limited, it is desirable to bring other of the native youth under the influences of the missionary's home, as much as possible, by enabling them to reside in the institution, for the purpose of being educated. For this object an allowance of £10 to £12 per annum (the exact amount being determined by the locality) will be made towards the maintenance of native boarders actually resident within the institution, and having, besides the ordinary school-work, some industrial occupation, such as of field or garden labour, or special training for pupil-teachers.

8. Boarders and apprentices may be considered as forming part of the required average of daily attendance.

9. These institutions and schools shall be subject to inspection by the Superintendent-General of Education, or his deputy duly appointed by the Governor, and shall furnish such reports, from time to time, as the Superintendent-General of Education may require, to enable him to judge of the state of each institution and school, and to ascertain how far each fulfils the object for which it is aided by the Government.