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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 48

The explanation of simple commercial terms such as debit, credit, balance, profit (gross and net), interest, discount, commission, insurance, assets, liabilities, capital, bankruptcy, composition, bad debts, folio, trial balance, company (limited and unlimited), invoice, receipt, voucher, cheque, bill of exchange. A knowledge of the transactions involved and the special terms used in connection with cheques, promissory notes, and bills of exchange. The form, use, and method of keeping the cash-book, the purchases-book or invoice-book, the sales-book or day-book, the journal, and the ledger. Journalising an easy set of transactions, posting the journal, taking out trial balance, preparing profit-and-loss account, and balance-sheet. The prevention, detection, and rectification of errors.”

The same clause is further amended by making the following addition to the definition of drawing:—

“ (a.) Drawing on the blackboard: A candidate shall be required to make a sketch on a large scale from an object or group of objects; to make an enlargement of a diagram of a simple ornament; to draw from memory some common object or some natural or conventional ornamental form.

“ (b.) Freehand drawing in outline: The candidate shall be required to make a drawing from a cast or from a photograph of a cast of an ornament, or from a diagram of a simple ornament or natural form. The drawing must not be the same size as the example provided. No ruling, measuring, tracing, or use of instruments will be allowed.

“ (c.) Model-drawing: The candidate shall be required to draw the group of objects placed before him, including the board on which it stands. The group may consist of three or more geometrical models and vases (as described in the Directory of the Board of Education, South Kensington, London), or of some simple common objects. No ruling, measuring, or use of instruments will be allowed; but the pencil may be held between the eye and the objects for the purpose of estimating apparent relative size.

“ (d.) Geometrical drawing:—Plane geometry: Simple problems relating to straight lines and angles, and to the construction of triangles and quadrilaterals. To divide a given line proportionally to a given divided line; to find the mean or the third proportional to two given lines; to find the fourth proportional to three given lines. Scale drawing and the method of making an enlargement or a reduction of a given diagram. Simple problems relating to circles and straight lines. Construction of a regular polygon of n sides, one of the sides or the circumscribing circle being given. Construction of similar figures. Construction of three-sided and four-sided rectilinear figures of given area. Given two similar figures, to construct a third figure similar to them, and having an area equal to the sum or to the difference of the areas of the given figures. The reduction of any given rectilinear figure to a triangle of the same area.

“ Solid geometry: Plans and elevations of straight lines and plane figures variously placed with regard to the horizontal plane, and of simple geometrical solids having one face or one edge in the horizontal plane. Sections of such solids by vertical and by horizontal planes; the method of finding the true form of a section.

“ (e.) Perspective:—(1.) The representation in perspective of lines or surfaces on or parallel or perpendicular to the ground plane and either parallel or perpendicular or obliquely inclined to the picture plane, or obliquely inclined to the ground plane and parallel or perpendicular to the picture plane, but not obliquely inclined to both planes. (2.) The representation in perspective, from plans and elevations or from specifications, of simple geometrical solids or common objects of plane or cylindrical or conical surfaces, the leading constructive lines of which are in one or the other of the positions indicated in (1). (3.) To find and describe from given perspective views the actual dimensions and position of an object placed in accordance with the conditions indicated in (2).

“ (f.) Brush drawing:—Brush impressions and brush strokes. The application of these elements to the ornamentation of given geometric spaces and to the production of simple borders and patterns. The drawing of simple leaf, flower, and plant forms, and the adaptation of these forms to decorative purposes.”

In the regulations for the Senior Examination, clause 11, (a), Group II., (10), is amended by striking out the first word “Euclid,” and substituting therefor the word “Geometry.”

Clause 11, (c), Group II., (9), “Arithmetic and Algebra,” is amended by the addition of the following words after the words “quadratic equations”: “and, after January, 1904, easy surds; easy arithmetic and geometric series; graphs of simple algebraic functions within the limits of the foregoing work, and graphical methods of solving equations.”

Clause 11, (c), Group II., (10), “Euclid and Trigonometry,” is amended by striking out the whole definition, and substituting the following definition in lieu thereof:—

“ (10.) Geometry and Trigonometry.—In geometry the ground covered by Euclid in Books I. to IV., and in propositions 1, 2, 4, 8, 19, and 20 of Book VI.; trigonometry to solution of plane triangles. In geometry the constructions and proofs of problems or theorems need not be the same as Euclid’s. The theorems may be proved without regard to the order of the problems of construction; but one theorem must not be made to depend on another theorem if in Euclid the latter is, directly or indirectly, dependent on the former. Similarly, the solutions of the problems of construction may be independent of the order of the theorems; but one problem of construction must not be made to depend on another if in Euclid the latter is, directly or indirectly, dependent on the former.”

Clause 11, (c), Group II., (19), “Sound, Light, Heat,” is amended by inserting the following words after the words “Sound, Light, Heat”: “Candidates may answer questions either in (a) sound and light, or in (b) heat; but no candidate shall be required to answer questions in both (a) and (b).”

Clause 11, (c), Group II., (31), “Book-keeping,” is amended by striking out the whole definition, and inserting the following definition in lieu thereof:—

“ The object and value of book-keeping. Double entry: its meaning and advantages. The form, nature, and classification of accounts. The balancing and closing of accounts. The explanation of simple commercial terms such as debit, credit, balance, profit (gross and net), interest, discount, commission, insurance, assets, liabilities, capital, bankruptcy, composition, bad debts, folio, trial balance, company (limited and unlimited), invoice, receipt, voucher, cheque, bill of exchange. A knowledge of the transactions involved and the special terms used in connection with cheques, promissory notes, and bills of exchange. The form, use, and method of keeping the cash-book, the purchases-book or invoice-book, the sales-book or day-book, the journal, and the ledger. Journalising an easy set of transactions, posting the journal, taking out trial balance, preparing profit-and-loss account, and balance-sheet. The prevention, detection, and rectification of errors. The explanation of more difficult commercial terms, such as rebate, account current, account sales, depreciation, lease, assignment, bill of sale, bill of lading, freight, dock warrant, free on board, demurrage, average, brokerage, ad valorem, del credere. A knowledge of the transactions involved and the documents employed in connection with the purchase and sale of goods, with the import and export trades, with partnership accounts, consignments, adventures, and account sales. A knowledge of the cash-book ruled for discount, office, and bank, and of bill-books. A general knowledge of the nature of capital, of debentures, stocks, and shares, and of company and government book-keeping.”

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Land taken for a Native School at Wai-iti.

RANFURLY, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings, at Wellington, this fifth day of June, 1903.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE W. C. WALKER PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedules hereto is required for a certain public work, to wit, a Native school:

And whereas it has been made a condition of the establishment of the said Native school that the site required therefor shall be a free gift from the Native owners to His Majesty the King, and the Native owners have agreed to such condition, and it has been made to appear that such agreement is sufficient for the purposes intended to be effected thereby:

And whereas by an order on investigation of title by the Native Land Court, dated the twenty-fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, certain aboriginal natives, as in the said order mentioned, were declared to be the owners of the Tautara Block, within which the portion of the said land described in the First Schedule hereto is situated :