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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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vention and destruction of weeds, with a special knowledge of impurities and adulterants, and the determination of the germinating power of seeds.

(41.) Hygiene.—Composition, characters, and classification of drinking-waters. Sources of water-supply. The collection, storage, and distribution of water; constant and intermittent systems of water-service compared. Sources of contamination and protective precautions; effects of impure and insufficient supplies. Methods of filtering and purifying water; construction and action of water-filters. Composition, properties, and impurities of air; chemical and microscopical examination of air. Effects of temperature; humidity, dew, mist, rain, and snow. Quantity of fresh air required under varying conditions; air-space around and in buildings; overcrowding. Principles and methods of ventilation; natural and artificial ventilation compared. Effects of respiration and combustion upon composition of air. Classification and relative value and digestibility of foodstuffs. General principles of diet; quantity of each class of food required; energy obtainable from food. Care and preservation of food; putrefaction and fermentation; parasites introduced in food. Method and appliances for cooking food; general composition and dietetic value of meat, fish, bread, vegetables, milk, butter, cheese, eggs, tea, coffee, cocoa, condiments, sugar, and fermented beverages; brewing. Precautions as to aspect, elevation, and drainage of building-sites; properties of materials used in construction of various parts of a building; cause and prevention of damp; floor and wall coverings; methods and appliances for heating and lighting buildings. Materials and principles of clothing for children and adults. Disposal of surface and rain water, of excreta and house-refuse; construction and laying of drains, drain-testing; effects of sewer-gas; disinfectants, antiseptics, and deodorisers. General composition and properties of soil, soil-temperature, conditions of soil affecting health, classification of soils in order of healthiness. Cleanliness, and attention to action of skin and bowels; use of soap; exercise; care of eyesight; rest, sleep. Influence of temperament, habits, idiosyncrasy, and heredity. Treatment of cuts, burns and scalds, bleeding, fits, drowning, suffocation, poisoning, bites and stings, prevention of endemic and epidemic diseases.

(42), (43), (47), and (48). For Dressmaking, Plain Cookery, Woodwork, and Ironwork candidates are required to produce the certificate of the City and Guilds of London Institute in the subject taken. Pamphlets containing information of the examinations and the programmes prescribed may be obtained on application to the Education Department, Wellington.

(44), (45), and (46). In Dairy-work and in the branches of Elementary Handwork included under these headings the programme and the examination are the same as for the Class D certificate. (See clause 23, paragraphs (32), (33), and (34).)

SEPARATE EXAMINATION FOR DRAWING AND ELEMENTARY HANDWORK.

37. Candidates for teachers' certificates, pupil-teachers, students of technical schools, or other persons may, upon making application in due form in the manner notified in clauses 16–19 of these regulations, be examined in drawing only either at the Civil Service Junior Examination or at the Teachers' Certificate Examination, and may take at such examination one or more of the six branches of drawing as set out in paragraph (5) of clause 23 above.

The entrance fee for such examination in drawing only, payable by all candidates excepting pupil-teachers in the service of an Education Board, for whom the examination is free, shall be two shillings and six-pence for each branch of drawing taken, with a maximum amount of