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7. Every training college shall be open at all times to — (a.) Any member of the Board or of the Committee of Advice; (b.) Any Inspector of Schools employed by an Education Board in the university district; (c.) The Inspector-General of Schools or any other Inspector of the Education Department. Entrance to Training Colleges and Allowances to Students. 8. In regard to admission to any training college, no distinction shall be made between applicants residing within the education district in which such training college is situated and applicants residing outside such district. 9. Subject to these regulations, students may be admitted as holders of studentships in Division A, or in Division B, or in Division C or D. Studentships. — Division A. 10. Except as hereinafter provided, to be admitted in Division A a student must satisfy all of the following conditions—namely, he must — (a.) Have within two years and six months immediately preceding completed hiß course as a pupil-teacher or a probationer in some education district in accordance with regulations and to the satisfaction of the Education Board of that district : (b.) Have passed the Matriculation Examination of the University of New Zealand, or have gained a hower heaving Certificate, or have passed the first section of the Class D Certificate Examination, including therein Groups I and II and two optional subjects as prescribed for that examination,* or are qualified under the regulations previously in force : (c.) Give satisfactory evidence of his ability to teach, as by a certificate to that effect signed by an Inspector of Schools : (d.) Give satisfactory evidence as to moral character, and produce a satisfactory certificate of health from a medical officer approved by the Board : (c.) Make a declaration of his intention to become a teacher, and enter into a bond as prescribed in clause 15 hereof. The allowances payable to a student in Division A shall be at the rate of £30 a year, together with tin- fees of the university-college classes attended by the student with the approval of the principal, with the further addition at the rate of toll a year in the case of any student who is obliged to live away from home to attend a training college, or of the actual costs of travelling (not exceeding £10 per annum) in the case of a student who lives at home but is obliged to travel more than four miles daily each way to attend the training college. Studentships. — Divisiou li. 11. To be admitted in Division B a student must satisfy all of the following conditions — namely, he must,- — (a.) Being not less than seventeen years of age, have passed the Matriculation Examination of the University of New Zealand, or obtained a Higher heaving Certificate: (b.) Comply within six months of the date of admission with such conditions as to probation in teaching as the principal of the training college with the approval of the Board may require : (c.) Satisfy conditions (d) and (c) as for students in Division A. The allowances payable to a student in Division l> shall be at the rate of £10 a year, together with the fees of the university-college classes attended by the student with the approval of the principal, with the further addition at the rate of £30 a year in the case of any student who is obliged to live away from home to attend the training college, or of the actual cost of travelling (not exceeding £10 per annum) in the ease of a student who lives at home but who is obliged to travel more than four miles daily each way to attend the training college. Studentships. —Divisions C and I). 12. The Board may admit as a student in Division C any teacher who for- not less than two years immediately preceding has been regularly employed in teaching in a school or schools of a grade not higher than Grade 111, and who satisfies conditions (c) and (d) as for Division A. In regard to such of these students as have not satisfied condition (b) of Division A, the principal may, with the approval of the Board, arrange for their- attendance at continuation classes or elsewhere in the non-professional subjects required for Class D. No allowances shall be payable to students in Division C except in such cases (not more than five of those admitted to any college in any year) as may be approved by the Minister, hut in no case shall the allowances exceed those payable to students in Division B. 13. Notwithstanding anything in the above provisions, the Board may admit to the training college, for such period (not exceeding two years) as it may determine, any teacher of a public school or of a secondary school who, on the certificate of an Inspector of Schools or the recommendation of the Board of Governors of such secondary school respectively, may be deemed worthy of further training in professional work. Such students may be termed " students of Division D." No allowances shall be payable in such cases.

* Amendment of 1911 (gazetted as Order in Council of 13th February, 1912).