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tion (1), of the Education Act, 1908, but may be reckoned towards
the qualifications for a license to teach as prescribed by regula-
tions.

NOTE.—Exemption from Drawing I or Drawing II of the
Teachers’ Certificate Examination may also be obtained by any
person who passes with credit in the corresponding subject or
branch at the Public Service Entrance or Intermediate Examina-
tion annually held in November. For the Intermediate Examina-
tion candidates may in a similar way be accepted for Drawing
Only, the fee payable for those who are not probationers or pupil
teachers in the service of an Education Board (for whom the
examination is free) being a sum of 2s. 6d. for each of the two
branches above noted. At the November examination there will be
no Blackboard Drawing.

NOTE.—The syllabus of the examination for Elementary
Kindergarten Certificates and the conditions of qualification may
be obtained on application to the Inspector-General of Schools,
Education Department, Wellington.

XV. By inserting, after clause 58, a new clause as follows:—
58A. No duplicate certificate of a teacher’s classification shall
be issued to any person unless the certificate already held by him
shall have been surrendered, or unless conclusive evidence to the
satisfaction of the Inspector-General of Schools shall have been
given that the certificate has been destroyed or irretrievably lost.
For any such duplicate certificate issued a fee of 5s. shall be pay-
able. For a duplicate of any special certificate issued under these
regulations which has been mutilated and surrendered or lost, a
fee of 2s. 6d. shall be payable.

XVI. As to clause 59 thereof, by inserting a new program in
Elementary Geology as follows:—
(21A.) Elementary Geology.—The composition, form, size, and
heat of the earth. Divisions of rocks; igneous, sedi-
mentary, metamorphic. Rock-structure; laminations,
stratification, false bedding, cleavage, foliation, joints,
columnar jointing. General characters and compositions
of the following groups of minerals, with special refer-
ence to their New Zealand localities—quartz, opal, and
chalcedony; feldspars; micas; hornblèndes and augites;
carbonates of lime and magnesia; oxides and sulphides
of iron. The general characters of the following types
of rocks, and a knowledge of their occurrence in New
Zealand—granite; diorite; gabbro; rhyolite; ante-
site; basalt; volcanic glasses, pumice, and volcanic
dust; conglomerates, sands, and sandstone; clays,
shales, and slates; limestones and coals; rock-salt and
gypsum; gneiss and schists. Texture of igneous and
sedimentary rocks. Agents producing changes in the
earth’s surface; volcanoes; earthquakes. Disturbed
strata; dip, strike, outcrop, contorted and overthrown
strata, anticlinal and synclinal axes, faults, slicken-
slides, dykes. Denuding agents and their work—rain,
running water above and below ground, the sea, frost
and frozen water, wind, animal and vegetable agencies.
Deposition of sediment. Landscape; plains, valleys,
formation of escarpments, lateral and transverse
streams, lakes, destruction of valleys, mountains, effects
of joints and faults, dry valleys. Economic Geology—
water, artesian wells, mineral and hot springs; coal
and oil; building-stone, roofing-slate, sands, lime, and
cement; clay; road-metal, flagstone; ornamental stone;
grindstones; fuller’s earth; salt, phosphate, soils,
metals, lodes, and veins. Recognition of New Zealand
rocks and minerals named above, from specimens or
descriptions.

A candidate will be expected to show a first-hand
acquaintance with the matters herein contained, and to
this end will be required to forward before the date of
the examination a certificate in the prescribed form that
he has carried out satisfactorily a course of practical
work, including work in the field, based on the above
syllabus.