working hard and soft woods; appearance, characteristic properties
(including specific gravity), and defects of timbers. Candidates
may be required to identify specimens of timbers in common use.

Bench-work.—Measuring and setting out work; dressing a piece
of timber truly; principles to be observed in designing joints and
fastenings; the construction of useful or ornamental articles providing
opportunities for practice in the following processes,
fastening-devices, and joints: Processes—sawing, planing, paring,
grooving and trenching, slotting, gouging, cutting curves, shaping
and filing, chamfering; fastening-devices—nails, screws, glue,
dowels, pins, cleats, keys, and wedges; joints—the ordinary joints,
including haunched mortise and tenon, bridle, mitre, common
dovetail.

The examination in woodwork will consist of a written examination and a practical test.

(23.) Metalwork.—Drawing.—Use of T square and set-squares,
compasses, dividers, and protractors. How to test accuracy of
drawing-instruments, and how to rectify errors. The use of the
foot rule, metric rule, and callipers; calculations based on measurements taken by these; candidates will be expected to measure with
approximate accuracy to one-hundredth of an inch. Making
approximately accurate hand sketches of simple geometrical solids
and of objects such as tools, simple machine parts, &c.; the use of
squared paper for hand sketching. Construction of plain scales;
plans, elevations, sections, and oblique projections of geometrical
solids the surfaces of which are bounded by straight lines, and of
simple objects based thereon. Drawing to scale from actual parts,
dimensioned photographs, or partially completed dimensioned
sketches, such tools and simple machines or machine parts, instruments, &c., as pupils who have taken a two-years course in metalwork or in elementary mechanical engineering should be familiar
with.

Instruments, Tools, Materials, &c.—The description, use, and
care of the various measuring and testing instruments, hand tools,
and simple machines used in metalwork or elementary engineering.
The description of simple mechanical operations. Methods of
setting out work from drawings, and the various operations involved
in the completion of a simple piece of metalwork. Characteristic
properties of the commoner metals used in metalwork, such as iron,
steel, copper, brass, zinc, and sheet tin, and their preparation for
workshop requirements.

Bench and Forge Work.—Exercises requiring the use of the
hammer, chisel, file, and scraper; easy exercises involving the
cutting, bending, and joining of cold sheet metal; various methods
of fastening metals, such as riveting, screwing, soldering, and
brazing; very elementary forge work, such as bending, drawingdown, upsetting (but not welding), hardening, and tempering a
cutting-tool, such as chisel, cross-cut, flat, drill, or lathe tool.

The examination in Metalwork will consist of a written
examination and a practical test.

As witness my hand this fifteenth day of March, one thousand
nine hundred and eighteen.

D. ROBERTSON,
Public Service Commissioner.

In pursuance of the provisions of the Public Service Act, 1912,
His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New
Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of
the said Dominion, approves of the foregoing amendments.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

Approved in Council this twenty-fifth day of March, onethousand nine hundred and eighteen.

F. D. THOMSON,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.