Dec. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2309

STANDARD V.

(The Standard of Education under “The School Attendance Act, 1894,” Section 3, subsection 4.)

PASS - SUBJECTS.

A. English.

1. Reading.—A book of general information, not necessarily excluding matter such as that prescribed for Standard IV.

2. Spelling and Dictation suited to this stage.

3. Writing.—Small-hand copies in a strict formal style, and text-hand; transcription of verse in complicated metres, and of prose exhibiting the niceties of punctuation.

4. Composition.—A short essay or letter on a familiar subject, or the rendering of a passage of easy verse into good prose.

B.

5. Arithmetic.—Proportion; simple interest; the easier cases of vulgar fractions, and problems involving them; mental arithmetic.

CLASS-SUBJECTS.

Geography.—New Zealand and Australia, as for Standard IV. The map of Great Britain and Ireland: Capitals, great ports, and cities and towns of more than 200,000 inhabitants, with their characteristic industries and geographical advantages. The map of Europe: The principal seas, gulfs, headlands, mountains, and rivers; countries and their capitals and great ports; geographical advantages of the several capitals and ports; forms of government of the Great Powers. Physical geography: General distribution of land and water on the surface of the globe; the mountain and river systems of some one continent; watershed; formation of deltas. The globe: the form of the earth; the daily rotation; the annual revolution; the approximately stable direction of the axis; day and night; the seasons; the zones, meridians, and the cause of the differences of local time.

Drawing.—Practical plane geometry; drawing to scale; freehand drawing to be kept up. (See Regulation 23.)

Grammar.—Inflections of the verb; the parsing (with inflections) of all the words in an easy sentence; analysis of a simple sentence.

English History.—The period from the accession of Henry VII. to the death of Queen Anne: About twenty-five persons and events, and about twelve dates, are to be selected by the teacher. (See Regulation 19, and the description of the work in history for Standard III.)

Elementary Science.—See Regulations 24 and 25.

Recitation.—Of a higher order than for Standard IV.

Handwork.—See Regulation 29.

ADDITIONAL SUBJECTS.

Singing.—More difficult exercises in time and tune; strict attention to expression-marks.

Needlework.—See Regulation 28.

Drill.

STANDARD VI.

PASS-SUBJECTS.

1. Reading.—A book containing extracts from general literature.

2. Spelling and Dictation suited to this stage.

3. Writing.—The copying of tabulated matter, showing bold head-lines and marking distinctions such as in letterpress require varieties of type (e.g., the copying of these printed standards, or of a catalogue showing division into groups).

4. Composition.—Essay or letter.

5. Arithmetic.—Vulgar and decimal fractions; simple cases of compound interest and of other commercial rules, such as discounts, stocks, partnership, and exchange; the metric system of weights and measures, and calculations with pound, florin, cent, and mil; square root, and simple cases of mensuration of plane surfaces and of solids bounded by planes; mental arithmetic.

6. Geography.—The maps of Asia and North America: Work analogous to the work prescribed under the head of “Map of Europe” for Standard V. The map of the world: British possessions; their principal towns and leading products; with some knowledge of their relative importance, and of the forms of government of the most important. Physical geography. The principal causes of difference of climate, with illustrations. The globe, as in Standard V., with a knowledge of the significance of parallels of latitude, and with special reference to the seasons in the Arctic and Antarctic circles.

7. Drawing.—Elementary solid geometry and freehand drawing from simple models; or one of these subjects together with more advanced freehand drawing. (See Regulation 23.)