Order D.—District Boarding-Schools Among the Agricultural Population.

1. Before any grant is made, the Superintendent-General of Education shall satisfy himself that the district is one that requires the agency of a boarding-school, and that the locality where the school is to be placed is suitable for the purpose.

2. The managers, the teachers, the rates of charge for the instruction and maintenance of scholars, the course of instruction, and all the arrangements of the institution shall be subject to the approval of the Super-intendent-General of Education, and the institution shall be open at all times to the inspection of the Superintendent-General of Education, or his deputy, duly appointed by the Governor.

3. The grants from the funds administered by the Superintendent-General of Education shall be appropriated exclusively to the following objects:—the part payment of the teachers or of the superintendents of the boarding departments, the training of the scholars in industrial habits, and the part maintenance of those scholars whose circumstances require such assistance towards their education.

4. The annual grants to a boarding-school for boys shall not exceed £100 towards the salary of the principal teacher, £50 towards the salary of the assistant teacher, and £6 capitation allowance towards the maintenance of each boy boarded and lodged and educated in the institution, whose home is situated not less than six miles from the undenominational public school of any town or village, and whose circumstances require such assistance towards his education.

5. The annual grants to a boarding-school for girls shall not exceed page 11 £50 towards the salary of the principal teacher, £30 towards the salary of the assistant teacher, £10 towards the industrial department, and £6 capitation allowance towards the maintenance of each girl boarded and lodged and educated in the institution, whose home is situated not less than six miles from the undenominational public school of any town or village, and whose circumstances require such assistance towards her education.

6. Each grant towards the salary of a teacher, or assistant teacher, or of a superintendent of a boarding department, shall be supplemented by an equivalent amount from the managers of the institution.

7. The managers of a district boarding-school shall provide day-school instruction for the children resident in the locality.

8. The managers of a district boarding-school shall furnish from time to time such returns and reports as are required by the Superintendent-General of Education, and shall submit to him annually a complete report of the management of the institution, with a statement of its revenue and expenditure, and the accounts of the institution shall be subjeet to audit annually by the Superintendent-General of Education, or his deputy duly appointed by the Governor.

9. Where sufficient provision already exists in the locality for day-school instruction, a boarding department, either for boys or for girls, may be formed in connection with the day-school; the annual grants to such a boarding department being restricted to a sum not exceeding £50 towards the salary of the superintendent, an equivalent amount being provided by the managers, and to a capitation allowar.ee of £6 towards the maintenance of each boy or girl boarded and lodged and educated, whose home is situated not less than six miles from the undenominational public school of any town or village, and whose circumstances require such assistance towards his or her education.