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land-tenures; land-nationalisation; land rating and taxation; international trade; free trade and protection; preferential trade; economic functions of government; State regulation of labour and labour disputes. Special regard will be had to those features of the subjects enumerated that have a direct bearing on current problems of New Zealand life and industry.

(29.) Economic History.—The outlines of the industrial and commercial development of Great Britain, the questions being mainly chosen so as to deal with the period subsequent to 1760, and to include—The effects of the introduction of machinery upon industry and trade; changes in industrial organization; the development of transport and the distribution of products; the economic effect of the Napoleonic wars; movements of foreign trade; the effects of protective tariffs upon production and distribution; trade-unionism, with special regard to its effects in raising or lowering the standard of wages and industrial efficiency in Great Britain and New Zealand during the last half-century; the influence of the co-operative movement; the rise and growth of large companies and trusts; the growth of banking; the adoption of the gold standard; and the history of general prices.

(30.) Commercial Geography.—The producing and distributing of commercial commodities, especially food and food-stuffs, raw and manufactured products, and minerals; the various facilities for trade and hindrances to trade. The paper will have special reference to Great Britain, to New Zealand, to Australia and the Pacific islands, and to America, dealing with the chief geographical and local conditions under which commodities are produced and distributed, with the chief trade routes and means of transit, with currencies, with social and political conditions affecting or likely to affect trade with New Zealand, with ports or harbours, coaling-stations, the chief post and telegraph routes, the distribution of population, of minerals, of forests, and of vegetable products; the necessary conditions of development in manufactures, agriculture, and commerce; the distribution of industries, the distribution of forests and of the main timber trees, the distribution of density of population, railway-routes and trade-lines, routes by sea to countries with which most trade is done. The candidate should also know what special inducement is offered by the Government of New Zealand to any given trade, and what exports and imports are carried on under special Government supervision or regulation.

(31.) Jurisprudence.—The nature of civil law and its relations to other kinds of law; the nature of the State and its functions; the administration of justice and its various forms; the sources of law; the leading divisions of law; the leading ideas involved in a legal system; general principles of legal development; a comparison of the leading principles of English and Roman law (details of these systems are not required).

(32), (33), and (34). The requirements in the English law subjects—Contracts, Real and Personal Property, Criminal Law and Torts—shall be the same as the requirements of the examination conducted by the New Zealand University for candidates for admission as solicitors. Candidates taking these subjects may be required to present themselves at that examination.

(35.) Industrial Law.—The law of master and servant, with special reference to the statutory law of New Zealand, dealing with contracts for employment, age, sex, and educational standard of employees; hours and conditions of labour; payment, recovery, and protection of wages; compensation for injury, and settlement of disputes.