Education Acts Compilation.

88. (1.) The Minister may, on the application of the Board, establish a high school in any place where there are not less than sixty pupils who have obtained a certificate of proficiency under the regulations of the public-school syllabus, and whose parents have 5 expressed in writing their intention of enrolling them at such high school: Provided that no such high school shall be established in any place where there is a district high school or a secondary school giving free places, as referred to in section eighty-seven hereof, 10 unless there are at least thirty thousand inhabitants within five miles of such district high school or secondary school. (2.) Every high school established under this section shall give free education to those qualified under the regulations referred to in section eighty-seven hereof. 15 89. (1.) Every high school established under the last preceding section shall be controlled, in accordance with a scheme approved by the Minister, by nine governors, of whom a group of three shall be appointed by the Governor, a group of three by the Board, and a group of three shall be elected, in the manner prescribed by such *v scheme, by the parents of the pupils. (2.) Such governors shall be a body corporate, and shall hold office for three years, or until the appointment or election of their sucoessors. (3.) One out of each group of governors shall retire at the end *5 of each year. (4.) Every such scheme shall provide for the election and retirement of the governors, for the management of the property of the school, shall define its curriculum and the respective powers of the governing body and the headmaster, shall prescribe the fees to be 80 charged to such pupils as are not holders of scholarships or free places, and shall state the provision (if any) made for pupils living away from home, and the provision made for the periodic examination of the pupils. 90. (1.) Every endowed secondary school that has not complied 85 with the provisions of section nine of " The Secondary Schools Act, 1903," shall, within three months after receipt of a notice from the Minister so to do, forward to the Minister a copy of the scheme or regulations defining its curriculum and the respective powers of the governing body and the headmaster, and stating the provision (if 40 any) made for pupils living away from home, and the provision made for the periodic examination of the pupils of such school. (2.) If the scheme so forwarded, or if any scheme forwarded under the said section nine, is not approved by the Minister, or if the governing body fails to comply with such notice, the Minister 45 may refer the matter to a Commission consisting of the Chancellor of the University of New Zealand, the Inspector-General of Schools, and a person appointed in that behalf by the governing body; and such Commission shall thereupon draw up a scheme, which, when placed before the Minister, shall be the scheme for the management 50 of such school. 91. (1.) Every secondary school and district high school shall be open at all times to inspection by the Inspector-General of

m g h schools may jjj^ 8 o ' s 7 3 sco a Board °«Governors Scheme to be approved 6 ibid, sec. 9 inspection of schools. Ibid, sec. 10

Board of Governors. Ibid, sec. 8

Scheme to be formulated and approved. Ibid, sec. 9

Inspection of secondary and high schools. Ibid, sec. 10

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