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of classes registered with the Minister of Education may give certificates to their pupils which will enable them to obtain railway tickets at special rates. During the year examinations were held upon papers supplied by the Science and Art Department (South Kensington), and the City and Guilds of London Institute, and a number of works were sent home by candidates desirous of qualifying for the Art Class Teacher's and Art Master's Certificates. There were 923 papers and 615 passes. The details are exhibited in the following table.

TABLE Y.—London Technical and Art Examinations, 1896.

The Science and Art Department has been good enough to give the colony permission to retain free of chaxge the casts used at its examinations. Upon the suggestion of the Director of the Wellington Technical School, who pointed out the advantage to be derived by colonial students in industrial and decorative art from a study of good examples of work in these subjects, an application was made to the Science and Art Department for a loan collection of prize works in connection with the national competition of 1896. This request the department was unable to comply with, but it has undertaken to lend for six months a collection of art students' works illustrative of the various stages of art instruction under the department. This collection, which will be exhibited at each of the principal centres, consists of works in the following sub-

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Auckland. Wangoniii. Wellington. Dune< Lin. Subjects of Examination. Candidates. Passes. Candidates. Passes. Candidates. Passes. I Candidates. Passes. Science and Art Department. ArtDrawing in light and shade (elementary) Drawing in light and shade (advan oed) Perspective (elementary) Model drawing (elementary) „ (advanced) Freehand drawing of ornament (elementary) Freehand drawing of ornament (advanced) Geometrical drawing (art) Design (elementary) .. „ (advanced) Painting from still life Drawing from the antique Painting ornament in monochrome Principles of ornament (elementary) Architecture Students' works Science — Practical, plane, and solid geometry Mathematics, stages 1, 2, 3 Magnetism and electricity Machine construction and drawing Building construction Inorganic chemistry, including alternative elementary chemistry Human physiology Applied mechanics Botany 1 1 1 5 8 9 5 8 7 8 10 5 46 7 3 7 7 2 10 5 25 ' 7 '2 42* 21 21+ 78} 31 106§ 20 3 1 1 6 1 30 16 18 71} 27 58 18 1 1 1 1 24 8 8 71 17 86 13 6 *' _ 8 2 19 5 4 54 17 59 12 0 5 1 1 1 1 6 25 13 88 19 1 8 8 1 ' 1 17!! 9 2 5 8 7 6 5 5 15 7 9 1 16 14 7 7 8 6 5 6 4 .. | " 1 8 i 1 2 1 1 City Guilds Institute. Carpentry and joinery Telegraphy and telephony Brickwork and masonry Mechanical engineering (Part 1.) .. (Part II.) Plumbing (written) „ (practical) 1 1 2 8 8 14 11 1 1 1 3 3 2 5 8 5 5 4 1 Totals 49 18 115 79 46211 299 + 297 219 * Includes one caud date from Westport, who failed. t Includes twi port, both of whom failed. ; Includes one candidate from Westport. II Includes three candidates—one each from Pahiatua, Masterton, and West " fair," which does not count as a pass. IT Includes eight candidates fr< passed. , o candidal 8 lucln iport—two om Pahiat tes —one fron des one caud of wliom fai :ua, Masters a Masterti [idate from iled, and oi on, and W 3ii and one f t Pahiatua, \ tie (Westport 'estport, ont rom West rho failed. ) obtained of whom