FEB. 16.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 783

soda, zinc-oxide, black-copper oxide, litharge, mercuric oxide.

The candidate will be required to forward before the date of examination a certificate in the prescribed form that he has carried out satisfactorily a course of practical work based on the above syllabus.

DIVISION II.

(22) and (23). Latin, Greek.—Translation of easy passages, at sight, from and into the language in which the candidate is to be examined; questions in grammar limited, generally, to points arising from the passages for translation; questions involving the conversion of direct into indirect speech or vice versa, and the ability otherwise to vary the forms of an original passage in the language as set for translation. Generally, any passage set for translation into the language will be essentially imitative in character.

(24) to (28). French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Maori.—As in Greek and Latin, but the papers not so elementary.

DIVISION III.

(29.) Book-keeping and Commercial Correspondence.—The requirements will include commercial arithmetic and tots and easy précis-writing.

Book-keeping: The object and value of book-keeping. Double entry, its meaning and advantages. The form, nature, and classification of accounts. The balancing and closing of accounts. The explanation of simple commercial terms such as debit, credit, balance, profit (gross and net), interest, discount, commission, insurance, assets, liabilities, capital, bankruptcy, composition, bad debts, folio, trial-balance, company (limited and unlimited), invoice, receipt, voucher, cheque, bill of exchange. A knowledge of the transactions involved and the special terms used in connection with cheques, promissory notes, and bills of exchange. The forms and uses of the cash-book, the purchase-book or invoice-book, the sales-book or day-book, the journal, and the ledger, and methods of keeping them. Journalizing an easy set of transactions, posting the journal, taking out trial-balance, preparing profit-and-loss account, and balance-sheet. The prevention, detection, and rectification of errors.

(30.) Elementary Handwork I.—Modelling in plasticine or clay, paper-work, and brick-laying.—Modelling: (a.) Modelling “balls” and “strings”; laying thin flat surfaces and cutting out various shapes therefrom; modelling simple leaves; designing, with the foregoing as elements, simple borders, patterns, and ornamental devices. The designs must show that candidates have a knowledge of the elementary principles of design, such as repetition, alternation, radiation, &c.

(b.) Modelling simple ornament in low relief from drawings, photographs, or casts. Modelling in low relief from natural objects or representations of natural objects.

(c.) Modelling in high relief, and in the round, of simple natural forms and common objects.

(d.) Modelling geographical details roughly to scale, and sample relief maps from locality plans or from photographs.

Paper-work: (a.) The use of paper-work as an aid to teaching (i) elementary geometrical notions and the elementary geometry (including areas) of the plane figures prescribed for geometrical drawing in the public-school syllabus; (ii) elementary arithmetic, including fractions.

(b.) Folding simple objects from explanatory drawings. Drawing the various stages comprised in the folding of such objects.

(c.) Designing simple geometrical borders and patterns with coloured papers either folded or cut. Elements other than those bounded by straight lines will not be required. The designs must show that candidates are acquainted with the elementary principles of design.