Subsection E : The bevelling and fitting of lenses to frames, fitting of rimless lenses to mountings, soldering and repairing of frames.

Text-books : General and Practical Optics (Laurance). Standard Names and Measurements (Ophthalmics Standard Committee).

VISUAL OPTICS AND SIGHT-TESTING.

Section C.—(Theory : Two Written Papers.)

Elements : Elements of biology, anatomy, physiology, and pathology.

Anatomy of the Eye : The general structures of the human eye. The orbit, coats, humours, structure of lens, ciliary body and adjuncts, optic nerve, other nerves, positions and nature of extrinsic and intrinsic muscles, ocular appendages. Optic tract. Blood vessels of the eye.

Physiology and Optics of the Eye : The various ocular functions. Cardinal points, curvatures, and refractive indices of the media. Constants and dimensions of the schematic and reduced eye, angles, Alpha and Gamma. Static and dynamic refraction of the eye. Accommodation and convergence. Movements of the eyeball and muscles employed. The near and far points. The range and amplitude of accommodation and convergence.

The course of light through the media of the eye alone and modified by spherical and cylindrical lenses and prisms.

Emmetropia, hypermetropia, myopia, astigmatism, anisometropia, aphakia, presbyopia, asthenopia, strabismus, and diplopia.

The fields of vision and fixation, stereoscopy, colour vision and blindness. Colour perception theories. The methods of detecting colour-blindness.

Instruments : Instruments commonly used for determining the refraction and muscular balance of the eyes. The optometer, the Scheiner and chromatic discs, Placido disc, ophthalmoscope, retinoscope, ophthalmometer, phorometer, rotary prism and other muscle-testing appliances. The perimeter.

Test Types, Charts, and Cards : Snellen and Jaeger types. Astigmatic charts.

Refractive Errors and their Correction : Normal and subnormal vision. The determination of visual acuity. The method of recording cases of refractive and accommodative errors.

The effect of drugs such as mydriatics, myotics, and cycloplegics.

The theory and methods of the determination and correction of errors of refraction and accommodation in the healthy human eye.

Tests for binocular vision. The pinhole disc. The determination of the conditions which render cases unsuitable to be dealt with by opticians, including any recent inflammatory condition due to mechanical, physical, chemical, bacterial, or parasitic causes; early glaucoma or cataract ; any anomaly of the external muscles or of the pupil, the optic disc, retina, or media, which might suggest incipient or organic disease. Muscular errors and their correction.

Section D.—(Viva voce and Practical.)

Viva voce, Anatomy of the Eye, &c. : Also subjective and objective symptoms of diseases of the eye. The perimeter and diseases indicated by its use.

Identification of parts of the eye in models and charts.

Practical subjective sight-testing for errors of refraction, accommodation, and muscular insufficiencies in living subjects. The technique of focal and oblique illumination.

Practical use of the retinoscope on living subjects. Practical use of the ophthalmoscope on living subjects.

Text-books : Sections C and D.—Visual Optics and Sight-testing (Laurance). Recognition of Ocular Disease (Forrest). Anatomy and Physiology of the Eye (Coque). The Ocular Muscles (Maddox).

F. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Cancelling the Reservation over a Reserve in St. Bathan’s Township, Otago Land District.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 15th day of December, 1932.

Present :

THE RIGHT HON. G. W. FORBES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by subsection one (b) of section seven of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby cancel the reservation as a site for a telegraph station and post-office over the land described in the Schedule hereto; and doth hereby declare that the said land, being vested in the Crown, is Crown land available for disposal under the Land Act, 1924.

SCHEDULE.

OTAGO LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 11, Block I, St. Bathan's Township: Area, 1 rood, more or less.

(L. and S. 9/2850.)

F. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Directing the Sale of Land under the Public Works Act, 1928, in Block XV, Drury Survey District.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 15th day of December, 1932.

Present:

THE RIGHT HON. G. W. FORBES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Public Works Act, 1928, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby direct the sale of the land described in the Schedule hereto, such land being no longer required for the public work for which it was acquired.

SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE area of the piece of land directed to be sold : 29·84 perches.

Being portion of Allotment 9, Pukekohe Parish.

Situated in Block XV, Drury Survey District (Auckland R.D.). (S.O. 27097.)

In the North Auckland Land District; as the same is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 84930, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, and thereon coloured red.

(P.W. 20/112.)

F. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.

Domain Board appointed to have Control of the Waikaia Domain.

BLEDISLOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 15th day of December, 1932.

Present :

THE RIGHT HON. G. W. FORBES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred by section forty-four of the Public Reserves, Domains, and National Parks Act, 1928, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby appoint

Colin Robertson,

William Christie,

Christopher McMillan,

Charles Reginald Collins, and

Cecil Alfred Sutton

to be the Waikaia Domain Board, having control of the land described in the Schedule hereto ; and doth hereby appoint Saturday, the twenty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, at half past seven o'clock p.m., as the time when, and the Masonic Hall, Wakaia, as the place where, the first meeting of the Board shall be held.

SCHEDULE.

WAIKAI DOMAIN.-SOUTHLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTIONS 1 to 23 (inclusive), Block IV, Town of Wakaia : Area, 6 acres 2 roods 16 perches, more or less.

Also Section 7, Block III, Wakaia Survey District : Area, 55 acres 2 roods, more or less.

(L. and S. 1/399.)

F. D. THOMSON,

Clerk of the Executive Council.