Oct. 29.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2283

EXAMINATION CENTRES.

15. The examination shall be held at the chief town of each education district, and at such other places as the Inspector-General shall from year to year recognise as suitable and desirable as special centres of examination: Provided that the Inspector-General may in any year decline to recognise any place as a special centre if he finds that thoroughly satisfactory arrangements cannot be made.

16. No application to be examined at a special centre shall be entertained unless it is accompanied by a special fee of one pound sterling in addition to the fee or fees payable under clause 18, and this fee shall be refunded if the application to be examined at a special centre is not granted; but the candidate must be prepared to supplement it by a further payment if the cost of holding an examination at the centre named is such as, in the opinion of the Inspector-General, would make such a payment reasonable.

17. Candidates shall, at the time of making application to be examined, say at which centre they wish to present themselves. They may afterwards, up to the fifteenth day of October, elect to be examined at some other centre upon payment of a fee of one pound sterling.

NOTICE OF CANDIDATURE: ENTRANCE FEE AND LATE FEE.

18. Every candidate must give notice of his wish to be examined, the notice being given in a form provided for that purpose. The notice must be sent so as to reach the office of the Education Department not later than the thirtieth day of September next before the examination, and must be accompanied by a receipt for the payment of one pound sterling to the Public Account at some branch of the Bank of New Zealand: Provided that a candidate that presents himself only for completion of “partial success,” as defined by clause 24, shall be admitted to examination upon payment of an entrance fee of five shillings for each subject.*

19. A candidate’s notice, whether for the whole examination or for the completion of partial success, may, however, be received between the thirtieth day of September and the fifteenth day of October if it is accompanied by a bank receipt for a late fee of one pound sterling in addition to the receipt for the entrance fee.

EVIDENCE OF AGE AND IDENTITY.

20. Every candidate for examination must produce a Registrar’s certificate of birth to show that he will be not less than sixteen years of age on the first day of the month of January in which the examination is to be held; provided that, in the case of a candidate for whom it is impossible to obtain a Registrar’s certificate of birth, it shall be for the Minister of Education to decide what other documentary evidence of age and identity may be accepted instead of such certificate. And every candidate that relies on an equivalent examination must give similar evidence of having reached the age of sixteen years before the time of passing such examination.

EXAMINATION FOR CLASS D.

21. Any candidate that has passed or that shall pass the Matriculation Examination of the University of New Zealand, being not less than sixteen years of age on the first day of the month of January next following the time of the examination, shall be entitled to exemption from further examination for Class D in the subjects in which he has passed.

22. The examination for Class D shall include the thirty subjects named below. Every candidate must be examined in all the subjects of Group I., and in not less than three nor more than four other subjects, of which, in the case of men, one must be taken from Group III., and another from Group II. or Group III.; and, in the case of women, one must be taken from either Group II. or Group III., and one must be needlework.

Group I.—
(1.) Reading.
(2.) Writing.
(3.) Arithmetic.
(4.) Music.
(5.) Drawing.
(6.) Elementary human physiology.†
(7.) Methods of teaching.
(8.) English.
(9.) Geography.

Group II.—
(10.) Greek.
(11.) Latin.
(12.) French.

(13.) German.
(14.) Italian.
(15.) Spanish.
(16.) Maori.
(17.) Elementary mathematics.
(18.) Elementary theoretical mechanics.

Group III.—
(19.) Sound, light, and heat.
(20.) Magnetism and electricity.
(21.) Elementary chemistry.
(22.) Elementary geology.
(23.) Elementary botany.
(24.) Elementary zoology.
(25.) Elementary knowledge of agriculture.

Group IV.—
(26.) English history.
(27.) Book-keeping.
(28.) Shorthand.
(29.) Needlework (for women).
(30.) One of the subjects numbered 1 to 8 of handwork, as defined in clause 36.

SCOPE OF THE EXAMINATION FOR CLASS D.

23. The scope of the examination for Class D is here set forth:—

Group I.

(1.) Reading.—The candidate may be required to read, without time for preparation, a passage from some well-known prose work or from the leading article of a newspaper, and also a passage of verse. Due regard shall be had to enunciation, correct pronunciation, tone, inflexion, fluency, expression, character, and intelligence.

(2.) Writing.—An exercise in text hand and in small hand, in such style as the candidate would adopt in setting copies for children. In the text-hand exercise the height of the smaller letters is to be the same as the space between two lines on an ordinary sheet of ruled foolscap, say one-third of an inch.

(3.), (8.), (9.). Arithmetic, English, and Geography.—The papers set will be based on the programme of the public-school syllabus. In geography the elements of mathematical and physical geography will be required, and the general topography and political geography of the world (without minute detail), with map-drawing (from memory) of European countries and British dependencies.

(4.) Music.—Paper work:—The notation of time, tune, intervals, &c. Candidates will be expected to show an acquaintance with both the tonic sol-fa and the staff notations. The order and manner of teaching; to include the subjects of breathing, voice training (with suitable exercises for class use), tune, time, ear training, &c. The diatonic (major and minor) and chromatic scales. The common terms and signs used in music. The writing of one or more simple tunes from memory, also of suitable blackboard exercises for specific objects.

Practical tests:—A simple ear test, to consist of phrases to be imitated by the candidate from the examiner’s pattern, or of short passages to be written down from dictation. A time test, consisting of a few measures to be sung on one note to the examiner’s counting. A tune test, consisting of a short melody in a major or minor key, and introducing the common accidentals of the sharpened fourth or flattened seventh (fe and ta), or modulation (transition) to the next sharp or flat key; the melody to be sung to the sol-fa syllables or to “lah,” the examiner giving the keynote. Note.—Viva voce questions on the notation, &c., of the above tests may be asked at the discretion of the examiner.

[The Department does not recommend particular text-books, nor, of necessity, limit the examination to the matter of any text-book; but it suggests, at the instance of an experienced teacher of music, the following books as useful to candidates: The School Music-teacher, by Evans and McNaught (Curwen and Sons, London); also the prefaces to Parts 1, 2, and 3 of the Zealandia Songster, by J. L. Innes (same publishers).]

In certain cases, as when a qualified teacher of music shall certify that a candidate is unable, after duly persistent trial, to qualify to pass the examination in that subject, the Inspector-General of Schools may permit the candidate to substitute for music one of the Class C subjects of Group III. or Group IV.; but the candidate shall not be allowed, either at the same time or afterwards, to take as an ordinary subject for Class C or for Class D the subject that he has been allowed to substitute for music.

(5.) Drawing.—The examination in drawing shall be in six divisions of the subject:—

(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

*A candidate that shall have achieved “partial success” at or before the examination of 1904 shall not be required to pay any entrance fee for admission to examination for completion only of his partial success at the examination of 1905.

†Until the examination of January 1906, and at that examination, a candidate may substitute for elementary human physiology an additional subject from Group III.