178A. For candidates for appointment as junior draughtsmen the following subjects are compulsory :—

| Maximum |
| Marks. |
|---|
| (1.) English | 500 |
| (1A.) Handwriting | 100 |
| (2.) Arithmetic | 300 |
| (3.) History | 300 |
| (15.) Mathematics, or (16) alternative mathematics | 400 |
| (27.) Trade drawing | 200 |
| (28.) Drawing (freehand and instrumental) | 200 |

Maximum obtainable .. 2,600

181. The legibility of handwriting and the setting-out of matter will in all cases be taken into account when assigning marks to papers in the various subjects.

The scope of the Entrance Examination is as follows :—

GROUP I.

(1.) English.

The English paper will be designed to test the literary comprehension and appreciation of the candidates, and a standard will be required in written composition such as can reasonably be attained after two years' secondary study of good English models. Great importance will be attached not only to correctness of composition, but also to originality of thought and expression. Pronunciation and accent will also be tested by a question based upon some simple phonetic system in conformity with the international phonetic script.

Grammar will be treated from the functional point of view. No formal parsing will be required. Sentences, clauses, phrases, and parts of speech should receive just enough attention to allow candidates to do analysis and to explain clearly errors in accidence and syntax.

Questions may also be set on synthesis, direct and indirect speech, punctuation, the construction of sentences to indicate the meanings and uses of words, letter-writing, and the precis of literary or other matter.

(1A.) Handwriting.

The copying from print or manuscript of prose, poetry, business letters, tabulated matter, and commercial papers. In the assessment of marks for handwriting consideration will be given chiefly to legibility, regularity, neatness, and speed. Handwriting will be taken into account in all subjects tested by written examination.

(2.) Arithmetic.

Vulgar and decimal fractions; metric system; approximations, proportion; partnerships; averages; percentages; profit and loss; bankruptcies; taxes, premiums; simple and compound interest; bankers' discount; stocks and shares; simple cases of exchange; square root; cube root of numbers reducible to prime factors not greater than 11 ; areas of plane rectilinear figures and of circles; mensuration of the prism, pyramid, sphere, circular cylinder, and circular cone. The use of algebraical symbols and processes, of graphical methods and of logarithms, will be permitted. Special importance will be attached to correct methods of setting out work.

(3.) History.

(Reasonable choice of questions will be permitted.)

1. The various racial elements contributing to the formation of the British nation; the story of their fusion. The Union of England and Scotland (1707) and of Great Britain and Ireland (1801); their subsequent relationship.

2. Constitutional progress and the development of democratic government. Suggested headings: Magna Charta; the Model and First Parliaments; Tudor despotism ; progress during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as marked by the struggle with the Stuarts and by the development of party government and the Cabinet system ; the work of the great Prime Ministers ; the Reform Bills, 1832, 1867, 1884.

3. The growth of the Empire from the age of discovery.

4. Leading recent developments in the Pacific.

5. History of New Zealand :—

(a.) The Maori before the advent of the white man,