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Needlework. — For Classes D and E. Time allowed : Three hours. [Before handing in your sewing work to the Supervisor, write your examination number clearly on each piece of it and on the label and the envelope provided, and fasten all your work together with needle and thread and attach the label, and enclose the whole in the envelope. Hand in the envelope to the Supervisor with your book of answers.] 1. Make a left sleeve for a little boy's night-shirt in accordance with the following directions : The piece of calico for the body of the sleeve is to be torn 13£ inches long and 15 inches wide, and the piece for the gusset 4-J inches square. The wrist-band, which is to be interlined, is to measure, when finished, 7J inches long and 2 inches deep, and 6 inches round when buttoned. Sew and fell the under-arm seam, leaving 3 inches open at the wrist, and putting in the gusset at the other end. Hem or false-hem both sides of the opening at the wrist, finishing your work suitably where the hems meet in the seam. Gather and stroke and set into the band. Stitch the band. Cut and work a button-hole to suit the button provided. Sew on the button. 2. Use the smaller piece of flannel provided to patch the round hole in the larger piece. 3. Give a specimen of feather-stitching on the flannel. 4. Darn the straight cut in the flannel. 5. In what respect should the method of darning calico differ from that of darning flannel ? Give reasons for your answer. 6. Show by a sketch how you would cut a shirt-sleeve to be put in without a gusset. What improvements in the cut of the body and yoke are made possible by the adoption of such a sleeve ? Approximate Cost of Paper. —Preparation, not given ; printing (3,825 copies), £32 18s.

By Authority: John Mackay, Government Printer, Wellington.—l9o3.

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