546 On Technical Education . [September, 
presence of one, if the mixture is at all a complicated 
one. 
Before quoting the Honours paper we must recall 
to the recollection of our readers the class of students 
on whom alone the teacher can receive payment on results, 
the time when he must teach them in order to be able to 
receive the payment if they pass the examination success- 
fully, and other particulars ; but the question about the 
numbers who come up for examination and the cost must be 
deferred until the next article. 
The teacher receives payment on results of instruction as 
tested by the examination of the students ; only for those 
who belong to the artizan class, or persons, and their 
children, who are in receipt of not more than -£200 a year, 
and teachers and pupil teachers in some elementary schools. 
The time for the class to meet according to the Department’s 
instructions, in order to receive the payment on results, is 
after 6 p.m., every week-day except Saturday ; on the latter 
day it can meet at 2 p.m. Twenty-eight lessons must at 
least be given in each subject ; when the subject is taught 
theoretically it must last at least one hour ; but when it is 
taught practically it must last at least one hour and a half ; 
and two lessons on the same subject cannot be given on the 
same evening or afternoon. All the subjects are divided 
into three stages, and a separate set of examinations is set 
in each. In each stage — Elementary, Advanced, and 
Honours — there are two grades of success, 1st and 2nd class. 
“The Elementary and Advanced Stages,” states the Science 
Directory, “ are for the ordinary Science Schools. The 
Honours Examination is of a very advanced character.” It 
will be observed that in the Directory the Department is 
very mysterious about the Honours Examinations ; they 
are equally mysterious, as we shall find further on, as to the 
number who go in for them in each subject ; they do not say, 
it will be observed, whether the examinations in Honours 
are held or not in the night classes. If they are not held in 
these classes, why put down the payment on results which 
the teacher will receive for this stage, because on no other 
class but the artizan, and £200 a year, class, can the teacher 
receive result payments, and these classes must, we have 
seen, be taught at night to receive even on them. 
The payments are as follows : — 
1. In the Elementary and the Advanced stages of each 
subject, except Practical Chemistry, £z and £1 for 
a first or second class respectively. 
