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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 29

(36.) Life and Accident Insurance Law in general, and Life and Accident Insurance Companies Law in New Zealand.

(37.) Principles of Life Insurance.—(a.) Application of the theory of probabilities to life contingencies. The theory of annuities and assurances (including the use of commutation tables and computation of ordinary premiums). The source and characteristics of the principal mortality tables. The valuation of ordinary forms of policies.

(b.) The general nature of insurance contracts.

(c.) The selection of lives for insurance. (The candidates must satisfy the examiner in two at least of the three divisions (a), (b), and (c).

(38.) Life and Accident Insurance Book-keeping, with special reference to the books of the Government Insurance Department.

(39.) Elementary Actuarial Mathematics.—The use of logarithms and of easy series as applied to interest, mortality tables, insurance, and annuities. Probabilities with reference to easy problems connected with life expectation, insurance, and annuities. Graphical methods applied to easy economic problems. Approximate methods of solving easy actuarial problems; limits of error in the approximations.

(40.) Statistical Method. — Data and forms of returns; tabulation and other forms of reduction of data; averages, the various forms (e.g., median, geometric, mean) and their respective advantages; average and type; distribution about the average, and measurement of dispersion; ascertainment of probability of given deviations; accuracy, and estimation of limits of error; proportional error in results caused by errors in original data; the use of graphical methods in statistics. The use of index numbers for the determination of changes in prices or wages. The commoner forms of statistical fallacy.

(41), (42), and (43). Applied Mechanics, Machine Construction and Drawing, and Building-construction.—The Department reserves the right to hold the examination in these subjects at any time or place, or to require candidates to take the examination of the Science and Art Department, South Kensington, London, in the Second Stage, or other examinations.

(44.) Mining.—On application to the Education Department a syllabus will be supplied.

(45.) Dairy-work.—Before undergoing the written examination in this subject, the candidate will be required to furnish a certificate showing that he has satisfactorily completed an approved course of practical instruction in dairy-work. The examination will include the general properties of solids, liquids, and gases; solution; precipitation; emulsification; coagulation; weighing and measuring; the balance; graduated measures; specific gravity; measurement of the specific gravity of liquids; fluid-pressure; pumps and siphons; the hydrometer and lactometer; the effect of heat on liquids; evaporation and condensation; measurement of temperature; thermometers; relation between pressure and boiling-point; the unit of heat; specific heat; latent heat; refrigeration; temperature of mixtures; fermentation.

The constituents of milk. Causes of variations and of defects in the composition of milk. The physical and chemical properties of milk. The coagulation of milk. The composition of skimmed and of separated milk, of buttermilk, and of cream. The uses and value of separated milk and of buttermilk. Methods of determining the fat in milk and in its products. Acidity and the estimation of acidity. Sampling. The care of milk. Influence of temperature on milk. Sterilising milk. Objections to the use of chemical preservatives. Conveyance of milk. Experimental proof that souring of