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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(22.) 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 purchases-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.

(23.) Drawing, I.—Free drawing with pencil or brush: The candidate shall be required to draw on a half-imperial sheet of paper (i) a natural object, or (ii) a fashioned or artificial object or a group of such objects placed before him either above or below the line of sight. In the case of (i) the candidate may also be required to show that he is able to adapt the form of the object placed before him to decorative purposes. The object or objects are to be represented as seen from the point of view at which the candidate may be seated. The candidate may use the pencil or brush to estimate the apparent relative sizes of the objects or parts of the objects to be drawn, but only by holding it between the eye and the objects. No other form of measuring and no ruling or other mechanical means of execution are allowed. The drawing, which should be as complete as possible, may be made in outline or in light and shade, and must fairly fill the sheet of drawing-paper.

(24.) Drawing, II.—Drawing with instruments: The candidate will be expected to be familiar with the geometrical operations and constructions set out in Section A of subject (12) Elementary Mathematics. The measurement of straight lines and of angles. The construction of plain scales. Drawing to scale from dimensioned sketches. The method of enlarging and of reducing a given diagram. Plans and elevations of straight lines and of plane figures lying in, standing vertically on, or inclined to the horizontal plane (but not in the latter case inclined also to the vertical plane). Plans and elevations and conventional isometric views of the following solids and of simple objects based thereon: the cube, the rectangular block, the triangular and the square prism, and the triangular, the square, and the hexagonal pyramid, the solid or object as the case may be having its base in the horizontal plane, and one edge of the base parallel to the vertical plane.

SCHEDULE.

I, __, of __, a duly registered medical practitioner, hereby certify as follows:—

(1.) That I have this day physically examined __, aged __ years, a candidate for appointment to the Civil Service;

(2.) That his height is __ feet __ inches; weight __ stone __ pounds; and chest-measurement on full inspiration __ inches;

(3.) That the condition of his heart and lungs is healthy;

(4.) That his eyesight is good [or has no defect except such as can be easily remedied by the aid of suitable glasses];

(5.) That his hearing is good;

(6.) That his speech is without impediment;

(7.) That he is free from any physical defect incompatible with efficiency in the public service; and

(8.) That, to the best of my knowledge and belief, his constitution is sound, and he is physically fit for the public service.

Remarks:

Signature: __.
Address: __.
Date: __, 19____.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.