EXHAUSTIVE TESTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21769, 7 April 1934, Page 2 (Supplement)

EXHAUSTIVE TESTS

POLICEMEN'S EDUCATION The police officer of to-morrow has to he a pretty knowledgeable fellow, judging from the questions recently put 'to 150"candidates for places in the new Metropolitan Police College, London. • He has to have more than a smattering of the arts and the sciences; he has to"*be well versed in our history; and ho has to be a bit of a mathematician, too. Here are some of the questions he was required to answer during the first day of the examination: Which four

Knglish painters (not living) would you place in a representative exhibition of British art? Give the characterisiics of their work and your reasons for including them, (iive a precis of one of the hooks of the three authors Kipling, Hardy and Conrad. Give the characteristics and habits of two out of these three crcaturea—-the badger, the bat and the stoat. These, questions all came under the general knowledge heading, which also, in a second paper, demanded n description of the working of the grid system of electricity and of a Diesel engine. Candidates were required to recall many events from Jo(3<s onward, and one test sot them was to place against a. long list of dates 20 historical events in their appropriate year, covering some yuu years.