Mar. 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 663

than the 30th day of September next before the examination: Provided that a candidate’s notice shall be received between the 30th day of September and the 15th day of October if it is accompanied by a bank receipt for a late fee of £1 sterling, in addition to the receipt referred to below for the ordinary entrance fee. With the aforesaid notice each candidate must send—

(a.) A bank receipt for the payment of £1 sterling to the Public Account at some branch of the Bank of New Zealand; and

(b.) The names of the optional subjects chosen by the candidate.

If the candidate is willing to accept appointment to some one particular Department only, or to one of two or more Departments, and to no other, it will be necessary for him to send—

(c.) The name of the particular Department or Departments.

3. As soon as possible after a Junior Examination has been held the Minister of Education shall publish a list of the names of the candidates that have passed the examination, arranged in the order of their merit, which order shall be wholly determined by the marks assigned to the several candidates by the several examiners.

4. The name of every candidate that has passed the Junior Examination, and no other name, shall be included in the list of names in order of merit to be published as aforesaid.

5. Appointments to places in the Civil Service (with the exceptions indicated in “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886”), in the order in which vacancies occur, shall be offered to the candidates in the order in which their names appear in the list of the results of the Junior Examination published next before the date at which the appointments are offered; except that a candidate for appointment to one particular Department only, or to one of two or more particular Departments only, named by him at the time of giving the notice required by clause 2 of these regulations, shall not receive an offer of appointment to any Department that he has not so named; and that girls shall receive offers of appointment to such vacancies only as in the opinion of the Departments concerned are suitable for girls.

6. Every candidate, on receiving an offer of appointment, must produce—

(a.) Evidence of having attained an age of not less than fifteen nor more than twenty-one years on the 1st day of December nearest the examination. This evidence shall be a Registrar’s certificate of birth: 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 Colonial Secretary to decide what other documentary evidence of age and identity may be accepted instead of such certificate.

(b.) A medical certificate of fitness for the service, which certificate shall be in the form prescribed in clause 14 hereof; and the appointment shall not take effect until the certificate is received and approved of.

(c.) Testimonials as to character.

7. A candidate that declines an offer made to him under clause 5 shall have his name struck off the list of candidates for appointment, unless the Colonial Secretary otherwise directs.

8. At every Junior Examination every candidate shall be examined in the two subjects named below as constituting Group I, and in one subject to be chosen by the candidate from Group II, and in any two, three, or four other subjects to be so chosen by the candidate from Group II or from Group III, or from both, that the total possible maximum of marks assignable in all the subjects in which he is to be examined shall not exceed 2,000.

COMPULSORY SUBJECTS.

Group I.

(1.) English.
(2.) Arithmetic.

OPTIONAL SUBJECTS.

Group II.

(3.) Geography.
(4.) Elementary mechanics.
(5.) Heat and light.
(6.) Magnetism and electricity.
(7.) Elementary chemistry.
(8.) Elementary geology.
(9.) Elementary botany.
(10.) Elementary zoology.
(11.) Elementary physiology
(12.) Elementary physical measurements.
(13.) Elementary practical agriculture.

Group III.

(14.) Elementary mathematics.
(15.) Greek.
(16.) Latin.
(17.) French.
(18.) German.
(19.) Italian.
(20.) Spanish.
(21.) Maori.
(22.) English history.
(23.) Shorthand.
(24.) Book-keeping and commercial correspondence.
(25.) Drawing.

9. The maximum marks assignable by examiners in the several subjects shall be—in English, 600; in arithmetic, 300; in any subject of Group II, 300; in mathematics or any language other than English, 400; in any branch of drawing, 100; and in every other subject, 200.

10. In order to pass the examination a candidate must gain 33 per cent. in each of the compulsory subjects (English and arithmetic), and 40 per cent. of the total possible maximum of marks assignable—that is, he must gain 800 marks in the aggregate.

11. In order to pass the examination with credit a candidate must gain, subject to clause 10, at least 50 per cent. in the two compulsory subjects taken together, and at least 50 per cent. of the total possible maximum of marks assignable—that is, he must gain at least 1,000 marks in the aggregate.

12. In any case, if the marks assigned to a candidate’s work in any subject are less than 25 per cent. of the maximum assignable in that subject, such marks shall not be included in reckoning the candidate’s aggregate of marks.

13. The scope of the Civil Service Junior Examination is here set forth.

Group I.

(1.) English.—The requirements will be based on the programme of work prescribed for Standard VII in clause 38 of the Regulations for the Inspection and Examination of Schools, but will be more advanced in character. Great importance will be attached to composition and to the comprehension of literary English.

(2.) Arithmetic.—The requirements will be based on the programme of work prescribed for Standard VII in clause 39 of the Regulations for the Inspection and Examination of Schools, and will include the fundamental rules; vulgar and decimal fractions; approximations; proportion; percentages (including interest, profit and loss); stocks; square root; cube root of numbers reducible to prime factors not greater than eleven; metric system; areas of plane rectilinear figures and of circles; mensuration of the prism, pyramid, sphere, circular cylinder, and circular cone. The use of algebraical symbols and processes and of graphical methods will be permitted.

Group II.

(3.) Geography.—The requirements will be based on the programme of work prescribed for Courses A and B in clauses 41 and 42 of the Regulations for the Inspection and Examination of Schools, but will be somewhat more advanced in character. Special stress will be laid on physical geography.

(4.) Elementary Mechanics.—Candidates will be expected to show an experimental as well as a theoretical knowledge of the fundamental laws of mechanics, but will not be expected to show any further knowledge of pure mathematics than what is demanded in subject (14) Elementary Mathematics.

Solids:—The British and metric systems of measurement. General and specific properties of bodies; relative and absolute motion; rest; distinction between mass and weight; density and relative density; uniform and variable velocity; measure of velocity; force and momentum; acceleration; acceleration due to gravity; representation of forces; composition of two forces acting at a point along parallel or intersecting lines; equilibrium of two or more forces acting at a point; moments of forces; composition of parallel forces; couples; centre of parallel forces; conditions of equilibrium in case of levers, wheel and axle, pulleys, inclined plane, wedge, and screw. Gravitation; centre of gravity, its position in simple cases determined by experiment; stable, unstable, and neutral equilibrium; the balance; requisites of a good balance.

Fluids:—Distinction between fluids and liquids; experiments illustrating transmission of pressure through a liquid; vertical upward and downward pressure; equilibrium of a liquid in a single vessel and in communicating vessels; the water-level; artesian wells; pressure on immersed bodies; principle of Archimedes; determination of the volume of an insoluble solid; equilibrium of floating bodies; the metacentre; stability of flotation; determination of the density of insoluble solids and of liquids by the balance and by the specific-gravity bottle. Physical properties of gases; weight