Dec. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2969

(2.) Timber : The timber-tree, its growth, classification, geographical
distribution, and disease; artificial methods of seasoning; history from
the forest to the bench; specific gravity ; what is revealed by the micro-
scope as to its cellular structure ; methods of preserving timber from climatic
and other injurious influences. Candidates will not be expected to show a
detailed knowledge of timbers not used in the Dominion, but a detailed
knowledge of New Zealand timbers commonly used will be expected.
Questions may be set on the durability of these timbers under different
conditions and on the various ways in which deterioration may take place,
including an elementary knowledge of boring-insects found in the Dominion.
(3.) Constructions : More advanced constructions, including mortising
with haunched and double-shouldered tenons (set back, forward, or sloped),
lapped and secret dovetailing, mitred bridling, and mitred mortising.
Suitable sequences of work, including the application of these joints at
particular periods of a boy's school life.
(4.) The class-room and its equipment : The handicraft class-room ; its
equipment for efficient teaching. Estimates of cost of initial equipment
and yearly maintenance of timber, tools, and other stock ; the design and
construction of furniture and fittings for the equipment of handicraft class-
rooms. The proper upkeep of tools and apparatus.
B. In relation to Metalwork.—(1.) The chief mechanical principles under-
lying the construction and use of tools ; preparation of materials used and
methods of construction and manufacture of tools and other appliances
used in metalwork ; heat-treatment of tools and tool-materials ; testing of
tools and instruments ; machine tools, including the lathe—their use and
abuse in school metalwork.
(2.) Sources, constitution, properties, production, and manufacture of
materials such as metals, alloys, solders, fluxes, abrasives, oils, acids, &c.,
commonly used in metalwork. Simple tests of quality of such materials,
each for the various uses to which it may be put in ordinary workshop
practice.
(3.) The equipment of school class-rooms and of metalwork centres for
simple metalwork, including the application of power for driving machines ;
steam, gas, and oil engines, and electro-motors ; the arrangement of shafting,
pulleys, and belting ; speeds required for different machines.

Section III. (4.) Practical Tests.

In addition to more difficult examples of the use of the various con-
structions mentioned in the syllabus for practical tests, subject 4 of Section I
of this examination, tests may be set including the following :—

In relation to woodwork, mortising with haunched and double-shouldered
tenons (set back, forward, or sloped), lapped and secret dovetailing, mitred
bridling, and mitred mortising. The material required for the tests will be
supplied by the Department and a list of tools which may be used by the
candidate will also be furnished. These tools must be brought by the
candidate to the examination, and no others will be permitted.

In relation to metalwork, the more difficult exercises will involve the
principal operations of bending, riveting, brazing, soldering, forging, welding,
tempering ; the use of the lathe for turning, boring, and screw-cutting, of
the drilling-machine for drilling, and of sheet-metal-work tools for seaming,
embossing, and ornamentation.

The material required for the practical tests in metalwork will be
supplied by the Department. A list of tools which the candidate should
bring to the examination, including rules, calipers, centre punches, &c., will
be furnished by the Department, and no others will be permitted.

Section III. (5.) Original Piece of Work in Wood, Metal, or other
Materials.

Each candidate will be required to design and execute in suitable
material an original piece of work and to forward it (carriage paid) to
Wellington not later than the 1st August. The specimen must be accom-
panied by a working drawing, with particulars of quantity and nature of
materials used.

A certificate signed by the candidate's employer or by the class-teacher
or by the Director of the Technical School, stating that the work has been
executed by the candidate himself without assistance, must be forwarded
with the specimen. In cases where the work has not been executed in a
manual-training centre or technical school or in the employer’s workshop
a statutory declaration by the candidate will be required. Forms of either
the certificate or the declaration may be obtained on application. Candidates
who fail in the examination, but whose specimen work is passed as
satisfactory, will not be required to submit any further specimens when they
again sit for the examination.

Note.—Specimens are required to be sufficiently large to show the
practical work, and in the case of woodwork loosely “ wedged up ” so that
they can be taken to pieces for examination.