STATUTORY RULES.
1933.
No. 83.
REGULATIONS
UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922-1932.
THE
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS appointed under the Commonwealth
Public Service Act 1922-1932, in pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred
upon it by the said Act, and subject to the approval of the Governor-General,
hereby makes the following Regulation to come into operation forthwith.
Dated this Fifteenth
day of June , 1933.
W. J. CLEMENS.
Commissioner.
Approved in Executive Council this twenty
eighth
day of June ,
1933.
(Sgd.) ISAAC A. ISAACS.
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
for
Prime Minister.
Amendments
of Commonwealth Public Service Regulations.
(Statutory
Rules 1926, No. 212, as amended to this date.)
Regulation 153 is repealed and the
following regulation inserted in its stead:—
Subjects
and marks for competitive examinations for Third Division.
“153.—(1.) Competitive examinations
may be held for admission to the Commonwealth Service in the Third Division,
and, subject to these Regulations, every candidate shall be examined in the
following subjects:—
Full marks. |
(a) Handwriting.—To be judged for legibility, neatness, and
simplicity, from the candidate’s paper in Spelling...............................................................................................
| 100 |
(b) Spelling.—To be judged from the candidate’s transscription of
a mis-spelled paper
| 300 |
(c) English.—Essay writing, précis writing, analysis, appreciation
of verse and recognition of the common
poetic devices............................................................................
| 400 |
(d) Arithmetic.—The full course, such as is usually contained in a
standard treatise
| 400 |
1960.—Price 5d.
Full marks. |
(e) Geography.—The chief astronomical phenomena which affect the
activities of mankind; climate and factors influencing climate; origin and
description of land forms and topographical features; build of the
continents; chief races of mankind; general geography of the countries of the
world in broad outline, and of the British Commonwealth of Nations in
moderate detail...........
| 300 |
(f) History and Civics.—Chief events leading to the development of
the British Commonwealth of Nations; Civics with special reference to
Australian conditions; leading topics in British History from 1689 a.d. to 1919 a.d. or leading
topics in European History from 1686 a.d.
to 1919 a.d......................................................................................................................
| 300 |
(g) Geometry.—Elementary
plane geometry of straight lines, angles, triangles, parallels; of areas
(triangles and parallelograms), and of the circle; with corresponding
constructions. Ratio and proportion
including the standard elementary theorems on straight lines and triangles,
similarity of triangles and of polygons, ratio of areas of similar polygons. Constructions
depending upon ratio and proportion. Exercises and problems based on the above.
| 300 |
(h)
Algebra.—Equations up to and including—
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(a) quadratic equations in one unknown; (b) simultaneous equations in two unknowns—
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(i) both simple; (ii) one simple and one
quadratic; (iii) both quadratic, when all
the terms which contain the unknowns are of the second degree.
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Relations between roots and
co-efficients of a quadratic equation. Graphical representation of the
changes in—
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Ratio and proportion;
the index laws, surds, logarithms; arithmetic progressions; geometric
progressions (including sum to infinity); compound interest; binomial theorem
for a positive integral exponent; simple examples in permutations and
combinations. (The ability to read and to use four-figure logarithms will be
assumed.).............................................
| 300 |
Full marks. |
(i) Trigonometry.—Angles
of any magnitude; approximate evaluation of the ratios by measurement; exact
evaluation for 0°, 30°, 45°, and multiples of these; definitions of the
circular functions of angles of any magnitude and their graphs; relations
between the circular functions, and relations between functions of angle A
and the angles— (– A), (90 ± A), (180 ± A), (270 ± A), (360 ± A);
simple trigonometric
identities; elementary treatment of circular measure; solutions of easy
trigonometric equations for angles between 0° and 360°; the addition theorems
and the standard elementary theorems deducible from them. (General proofs
will not be required for the addition theorem.) Suitable formulae to be
obtained and applied to the solution of triangles; four-figure tables. (Reduction
of formulae to forms suitable for logarithmic calculation by the use of an
auxiliary angle not required.) Heights and distances, including simple
examples in three dimensions; practical problems on the evaluation of
polygonal areas. (General formula for the quadrilateral not required.)............................
| 300 |
(j) Latin.—Sight translation, composition, and grammar ......................................
| 300 |
(k) French.—Sight translation, composition, and grammar ...................................
| 300 |
(l) German.—Sight translation, composition, and grammar ..................................
| 300 |
(m)
Physics—
Mechanics. |
Velocity and
acceleration. Acceleration due to gravity. Equations of uniformly accelerated
motion. Newton’s laws of motion. Mass, momentum, force. Measurement of force.
Weight; distinction between mass and weight. Parallelogram and triangle of
forces. Use of graphical methods of solving problems involving combination
and resolution of forces, &c. Parallel forces. Moments. Centre of gravity
with reference to stable, neutral and unstable equilibrium. Work. Potential
and kinetic energy. Change in potential energy when a body is raised through
a height. Kinetic energy of a mass possessing linear velocity. Conservation
of energy. Power. Levers, pulleys, the inclined plane.
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Heat. |
Thermometry. Expansion
of solids. Expansion of liquids. Expansion of water. Expansion of gases. Laws
of Boyle and Charles. The gas thermometer. Melting and freezing. Vaporization
|
Full marks. |
and
condensation. Vapour pressure. Dalton’s law of partial pressures. Humidity of
the atmosphere. Hygrometry. Specific and latent heats. Calorimetry.
Conduction of heat. Thermal conductivity. Convection. Radiation and absorption.
Theory of exchanges. Mechanical equivalent of heat. Experiments of Rumford,
Davy, Joule. First law of thermodynamics.
Magnetism and
Electricity. Magnetism, Law of
attraction. Definition of terms. The earth’s magnetic field. Fundamental facts of
electrostatics. Gold-leaf electroscopes and their uses. Law of attraction.
Charge, potential and capacity. Electric currents,
magnetic effects. Theory of tangent galvanometer. The electro-magnetic and
practical systems of units. Ohm’s law. Determination by Wheatstone bridge and
potentiometer methods. Electrolysis. Definitions and laws. Determination of
reduction factor of a tangent galvanometer by an electrolytic method. Heating
effects. Determination of the mechanical equivalent of heat. Electro-magnetic
induction. Calculation of the induced electro-motive force in simple cases.
Lenz’s law. Dynamo. Telephone....................
| 300 |
(n) Chemistry.—A
detailed study of the following elements and their more important compounds
with one another:—
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Hydrogen, chlorine (excluding
the oxy-compounds), oxygen, sulphur, nitrogen, phosphorus, carbon (excluding
hydro-carbons), silicon, sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, copper, zinc,
aluminium, silver, and iron.
The chemistry, but not
the technical details, involved in the simpler methods of extraction of the
elements mentioned above (excluding sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium and
silver), and of the manufacture of glass, superphosphate, sodium carbonate, sodium
hydrate. The molecular and
atomic theory. Avogadro’s hypothesis. Vapour pressure. Vapour density. The
fundamental chemical relations of definite proportions, multiple proportions,
equivalents and reacting gaseous volumes. Gaseous diffusion and the laws of
Boyle and Charles. The nature of salts, basic and acidic radicles, and the
more obvious phenomena of electrolysis...............................................................................................
| 300 |
Full marks. |
(o) Commercial
Practice.—Double entry. Books and accounts used. Entering, posting,
balancing. Reconciliation statements; Extracting Trading and Profit and Loss
Accounts and Balance-sheets from trial balances; simple Consignment Accounts;
Provision for bad debts and depreciation; adjustments required at balancing. Errors in Trial
Balance; Adjustments before closing Books; Single Entry problems; Accounts
Current; Self-balancing ledgers and adjustment accounts; Partnership accounts—formation
and dissolution—interest on capital—salaries—division of profits; contingent
assets and liabilities; difference between Profit and Loss Account, and
Receipts and Payment Statement
| 300 |
(p) Commercial Principles.—Kinds of Property, Real and Personal;
Contracts; Agency; Partnerships; Sale of Goods; Hire Purchase; Distinction
from ordinary purchase; Bills of Exchange; Promissory Notes, Cheques,
Insurance (Life, Fire, Marine), General principles and documents; Bills of
Lading, Nature and usual clauses; Nature of a Company; Methods of formation
of different kinds of Trading Companies; Classes of Shares, Rights and
Liabilities of Shareholders
| 300 |
(q)
Economics.—
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Economic principles which affect the
following:—Production, consumption, distribution and exchange of wealth;
money and banking; organization of industry; Labour movement and Trade
Unionism; tariffs, protective and preferential. Economic History.—The manorial system; growth of
towns; mediaeval trading; Enclosure Acts; mercantilism; the wool industry;
the Industrial Revolution; laissez-faire; history of Trade Unionism; Factory
Acts; growth of large-scale production and the Trust Movement
| 300 |
(2.) A candidate shall undergo
examination in at least six, but not more than eight, subjects, four of which
shall be subjects (a), (b), (c),
and (d), specified in the last preceding sub-regulation, the remaining
two, three or four being left to his choice.
(3.) A candidate shall not be
regarded as having passed the examination unless he obtains half of the full
marks in subject (a) and at least
three-fifths of the full marks in each of the subjects (b), (c), and (d), and in each of two of the selected
subjects in which highest marks are awarded to him.
(4.) A successful candidate will be
credited with the marks obtained by him in a subject not considered for the
purpose of a pass if they are at least 25 per cent. of the marks available for
the subject; but the marks for such subject shall be awarded on a maximum of
200.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government
Printer, Canberra.