New Zealand Gazette – 1907 – No. 29

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✨ Civil Service Examination Regulations

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mended by any Department must be taken by candidates in the service of that Department:—

Department.	Subjects recommended.
Agriculture ..	22 to 25 inclusive, 45.
Customs ..	5 or 6, 12, 30.
Education ..	One of the subjects 3 to 9; 10, 11; one of the subjects 13 to 21.
Insurance ..	36 to 39 inclusive (two essential).
Labour ..	28, 29, 35.
Land and Income Tax	10, 33, 39, 46.
Mines ..	10, 11, 40, 44.
Old-age Pensions ..	10, 39.
Police ..	34, 46, 47.
Printing and Stationery	9, 39, 46, 47.
Public Trust ..	9 or 10, 32 or 33, 46 or 47 (32 or 33 compulsory).
Stamps and Deeds ..	32, 33, 39.
Treasury ..	10, 30, 46.
Post Office ..	5, 10, 14.
Public Works—
For clerical cadets ..	4, 10, 30, 46.
For engineering cadets	10, 11, 12, 14, 41 (all essential).

SCOPE OF THE EXAMINATION.

The scope of the examination in the several subjects is here indicated more or less fully:—

GROUP I.

(1.) Précis-writing, &c.—In addition to the making of précis, this subject shall include the reading, copying, and recasting of manuscript, writing letters from hastily written, incomplete, or merely suggestive drafts or minutes, and the making of abstracts.

(2.) In English Language and Literature a candidate will be required to give evidence of a fair knowledge of the principles of English composition, and display ability to write good English. He must also possess a knowledge of certain special books, or else of certain special books together with a period of literature. The special books and the period of literature will be chosen from time to time and duly announced.

GROUP II.

(3) to (9). In Languages other than English candidates will be required to show reasonable proficiency in translating from and into the language chosen; to show a knowledge of certain special books; and to answer questions in grammar arising out of the special books. In each language one or more special books will be prescribed from time to time and duly announced. At least one of the passages set for translation from the language shall be taken from a special book so prescribed, and part of the work set for translation into the language shall be based upon the vocabulary and diction of one of such prescribed special books.*

Questions may also be set to test an elementary knowledge of a period in the national or literary history, as may from time to time be specified in the announcement relating to special books.

*The provisions relating to special books shall not, until further notice, apply to Maori.

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