3. Take any point O and a line OX of indefinite length. Determine the positions of two points A and B on the same side of the line OX, given OA-17", OB-3.3", angle AOX=70°, angle BOX-40°. Measure and write down the distance from A to B.

4. Construct a scale of miles and furlongs when 13" represent mile. Draw a line to this scale eleven furlongs long.

5. Make an enlarged freehand copy of the design shown below the height of your copy should be at least six inches.

DOMESTIC ECONOMY AND HYGIENE.

One hour and a half allowed for this paper.

N.B.-Only five questions to be attempted, of which at least two and not more than three must be from Section A. The Examiner will read only the first five answers left uncancelled. The questions in this paper are all of equal value.

Candidates will please name at the beginning of their paper the text-book they have used.

Mr. HOGAN, Senior Inspector.

Miss FITZGERALD, Organizer of Cookery and Laundry
Instruction.

A.

1. Trace the changes in volume and density which water undergoes between 80 Centigrade and 0° Centigrade. What important results in nature ensue from these changes?

2. Describe and explain various operations and contrivances in ordinary domestic use depending on conduction, convection and radiation of heat respectively (not more than two under each heading).

3. Explain fully what takes place in the combustion of an ordinary coal fire.

4. Under each head describe one experiment which demonstrates that heat causes a change of volume in (1) solids, (ii) liquids, (iii) gases.

B.

5. Mention the principal preventive measures which should be taken to check the spread of consumption. What are the chief causes of this disease?

6. What are bacteria, and how can their reproduction be arrested? Mention various methods of preserving food.

7. Describe the various functions of veins, arteries and capillaries. How would you distinguish bleeding caused by the rupture of a vein from that caused by the rupture of an artery? State how the wound should in each case be treated.

8. Describe the changes undergone by food while it is in the stomach.

ELEMENTARY EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE.-MEN.

One hour and a half allowed for this paper.

N.B.-Only five questions to be answered. Illustrate your answers wherever possible by diagrams.

Dr. SKEFFINGTON, Senior Inspector.

Mr. HELLER, Organiser and Inspector of Elementary Science.

1. Describe carefully an experiment to show that hot air is lighter than cold air; of what importance is this fact in daily life?

2. What facts have you learnt about counterbalancing columns of liquids from your experiments with U tubes? Are these laws applicable to the height of a column of mercury which balances the atmospheric pressure?

3. What do you understand by "equal weights"? Explain the advantages of the cubic-centimetre-gram system of weights and measures.

4. Describe experiments that lead you to suppose that air is a mixture of two gases possessing very different properties.

5. A beaker of spirit (density 82 grams per c.c.) is exactly counterpoised on a balance; a piece of iron (density 7'6 grams per c.c.) weighing 10 grams is suspended in the spirit from an external support. What weight will be necessary to restore the balance?

6. What changes occur when the following substances are strongly heated in air-wood, cheese, chalk, iron, red lead?

7. A hot copper ball weighing 180 grams is placed in a thin copper vessel (weight 20 grams) containing 100 grams of water at 15° C., the water becomes 27.7° C. hotter. What was the temperature of the ball?

(Specific heat of copper ='1.)

8, Write an account of experiments that lead to a knowledge of the composition of chalk.

F

ELEMENTARY EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE.-
WOMEN.

One hour and a half allowed for this paper.

N.B.--Only five questions to be answered. Illustrate your answers wherever possible by diagrams.

Dr. SKEFFINGTON, Senior Inspector.

Mr. HELLER, Organiser and Inspector of Elementary Science.

1. On what evidence do we know that air contains invisible water vapour? In what ways does this water vapour concern us in daily life?

2. Describe carefully how you would carry out and record systematic observations of the weather in a National School.

3. In order to ascertain whether milk has been diluted with water, it is necessary to determine the density accurately to the third decimal figure. Explain carefully how you would make this determination.

4. Describe as many experiments as possible to show that air is a real substance.

5. How would you show that most solid foods contain :(a.) A large percentage of water.

(b.) Carbon that will burn in air.
(c.) Ash that will not burn.

6. Describe the construction of, and the mode of using, the doctor's thermometer for taking the temperature of the body.

7. Explain fully why food is spoken of as the fuel of the body. How does it produce heat, and what becomes of this heat?

8. What are the differences between hard and soft water? How may the hardness of a water be measured, and how may it be removed?

NEEDLEWORK.

Time allowed, six hours.

Mr. STRONGE, Senior Inspector.

Miss PRENDERGAST, Directress of Needlework.

SEWING.

As a test of proficiency in this branch candidate will have to execute, on material supplied by Superintendent, a specimen of each of the following:-hemming, running (a seam, run and felled), a buttonhole rounded at each end; sewing on gathers (also known as stocking on "). One buttonhole,

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and one inch of each of the stitches will suffice as samples, and candidate will do well not to exceed the amount mentioned, as, by increasing it, she will encroach upon the time required for other branches of the subject. A small patch (about one inch and a half square) is to be tacked on, topsewn round one quarter of the outer and hemmed round one quarter of the inner side, so as to complete one corner of the patch. Candidate's examination number is to be plainly marked upon an unworked portion of the specimen.

KNITTING AND DARNING.

Candidate, having provided herself with a piece of knitting in progress, viz., the leg of a baby's sock, with heel begun, is required to turn and complete this heel in the presence of the Superintendent, picking up stitches for foot, and knitting four or five rounds of it, narrowing for instep. The sock should have, securely stitched to it, a label about one inch broad and one inch and a half long, of white tape or calico, clearly marked with candidate's examination number. Before beginning to turn the heel of the sock, candidate will present it to the Superintendent, to be marked by him. (The candidate must be careful not to neglect doing this.)

The Superintendent will supply candidate with a small piece of stocking web, which, for convenience of working, she can tack (right side down) upon paper, cutting a square out of the middle of the paper to enable her to see the progress of the darn upon the right side, as she works on the wrong. She is to darn a round hole, not smaller than a threepenny-piece nor larger than a sixpence, running the darn in each direction to about half an inch beyond the hole. Both sock and darn, when finished, are to be firmly attached by a few strong stitches to the specimen of sewing.

CUTTING-OUT.

Paper for these tests will be supplied. Cuting-out specimens are to be tacked together with needle and thread; no pins are to be left in them.

Candidate is required to cut out a boy's shirt. The candidate is at liberty to cut this article full or half size, as she pleases, but she must not present a half shirt, i.e., a shirt with only one side. On it she will mark distinctly her examination number.

She is requested to comply as exactly as possible with all requirements mentioned above.