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Regulation 153 is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—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:—
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(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.
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(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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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(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.