JULY 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2069

(1) THE WRITTEN EXAMINATION may comprise advanced questions on
any of the subjects included under the two previous examinations, together
with the following :—

1. Drawing and Design: The preparation of decorative designs and
   working drawings.

2. Architectural: The orders and styles of architecture and their pre-
   dominant features. The periods and styles of decoration and their chief
   characteristic details.

3. Mensuration: Taking out quantities and estimating.

4. General Principles: The management of men and works; preparation
   of specifications of work for given purposes and under given conditions.

5. Colouring: Colour in its larger aspects as related to some definite
   position or purpose; the consideration of external factors and their effects—
   e.g., lighting, distance, or point of view, pre-existing coloured objects; the
   proper expression of structure and surface in architecture—e.g., the
   distribution of such colour values as shall sustain mouldings or members
   according to their relative importance and purpose; the power of colour to
   sustain, override, or modify the effects of architectural arrangement in their
   final settlement of proportions.

6. Brushes, Tools, Plant, and Appliances: The management of the paint
   shop and stores; the selection of plant and tools for jobs; the testing and
   care of step-ladders, &c.; arrangement of men when painting large surfaces.

7. Materials: Practical and simple chemical tests for pigments, oils,
   turpentine, driers, varnishes, enamels, and other materials; selection,
   purchase, and storage of materials.

8. Grounds for Painting: Preparation of special surfaces as metals,
   cements, poilite and plaster board, &c.; the treatment for special conditions
   as smoke, grease, heat, frost, and hard wear.

9. Painting: Power of paints to resist action of weather, heat, gases,
   acids, alkalis, &c.; testing of paints to ascertain this power.

10. Distemper: Painting ornament in and on distemper; the use of
    distemper on other than plaster grounds.

11. Wall-hangings: The selection and hanging of jute, canvas, silk,
    tapestry, and other materials.

12. Spray-painting and lacquering.

13. Imitative Painting: The use of imitative effects of materials and
    texture, as bronze, ivory, majolica, &c.; roller and transfer processes of
    graining; the representation of inlays, marquetry, mosaic, ivory, bronze, &c.

14. Lettering: Writing and embossing, gilding and colouring on glass;
    elements of heraldic painting and illuminating. The treatment and applica-
    tion of wood and other attachable letters.

15. Decorative Processes: Polychromatic stencilling; raised and sanded
    decorative painting; matt and burnish gilding; gesso and tapestry painting.

16. Staining: Ornamental and decorative staining; chemical staining;
    comparative value of water, oil, and spirit staining.

17. Varnishing: Different processes of felting down and hand polishing.

18. Scaffolding: General outline of scaffolding regulations.

(2) PRACTICAL EXAMINATIONS AND SPECIMEN WORK.—The practical work
required of a candidate will consist of an obligatory portion on the selection
and harmony of colours, and of two other tests to be selected from the
subjects enumerated below :—

(a) The preparation of a design for decoration.

(b) The preparation of full size working drawings and partial execution
in colour from a scale black and white sketch.

(c) The arrangement and execution of a decorative sign-board in colour
and gold.

(d) Writing, embossing, and gilding on glass, wood, plaster, and other
surfaces.

(e) The painting and stencilling of a panel or frieze, from given directions.

(f) The execution of examples of specified woods and marbles.

(g) The execution of a panel decorated by one of the processes included
in the syllabus for the written examination and specified by
the examiners.

(h) The matching and harmonizing of named colours, tints, or shades
upon a moulded panel in varnish, or other specified manner.

(i) The painting of ornament in monochrome from a cast.

The obligatory test or tests are to be specimens of the candidate’s work
executed in his own time; the remaining tests are to be executed under
examination conditions.

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