MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.

New Zealand Police Gazette, Volume L, Issue 42, 21 October 1925, Page 600

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION.

Police Examinations, 1925. The following list of members of the Force who passed the examination qualifying for promotion held in September last is published in accordance with Regulation No. 415 : Examination qualifying for rank of Sub-Inspector. Passed whole Examination. No. 1394. Sergeant Calwell, Davis Lewis. No. 1745. Constable Clark, David. Passed in Evidence, Prescribed Statutes, Police Force Act and Regulations, and Police and Detective Duties. *No. 740. Senior Sergeant Harvey, Peter. *No. 812. Senior Sergeant Lewin, Frank. *No. 1015. Senior Sergeant Shanahan, Thomas. *No. 1180. Senior Sergeant Sweeney, James. No. 1594. Sergeant Harley, Charles. *No. 1713. Detective Holmes, Thomas Edward. *No. 2090. Detective Walsh, John.

Passed in English, Geography, and Arithmetic. fNo. 885. Senior Sergeant Fitzpatrick, James. f No. 1113. Senior Sergeant Powell, John. y No. 1272. Detective-Sergeant Carroll, John. No. 1393. Sergeant Pender, William. No. 1548. Sergeant Joyce, Henry John. No. 1589. Sergeant Moriarty, Thomas. No. 1318. Sergeant McGregor, Thomas Imrie. No. 1780. Constable Neary, Hugh Joseph. No. 1792. Constable Sheahon, Patrick Daniel. No. 1829. Constable Harrison, Frederick Charles. No. 1855. . Detective Robertson, James Kent. No. 1865. Constable Edwards, John. No. 1917. Constable Jones, Ernest Francis. No. 1961. Detective Russell, Herbert Henry. No. 1972. Constable Doel, Alfred. No. 2052. Detective Knight, Herbert Edward. No. 2085. Detective Meiklejohn, Arnold Bell. No. 2092. Constable Johnston, Thomas. Examination qualifying foe rank of Senior Sergeant. No. 1029. Detective-Sergeant Quirke, Thomas. No. 1239. Sergeant Scott, Donald. No. 1316. Sergeant Packer, Worthy Edward. No. 1408. Sergeant Power, John Joseph. No. 1309. Sergeant Blake, William. No. 1718. Constable Campagnolo, Theodore. No. 1805. Constable Abel, John. No. 1926. Constable Henry, Robert. No. 1961. Detective Russell, Herbert Henry. Examination qualifying for rank of Sergeant. Passed whole Examination. No. 1564. Constable Sparks, James John. No. 1786. Constable Beard, Daniel Charles. Passed in Evidence, Prescribed Statutes, Police Force Act and Regulations, and Police and Detective Duties. *No. 1714. Detective Bickerdike, James. No. 1882. Detective Nuttall, Henry. Passed in English, Geography, and Arithmetic. No. 1151. Constable Snow, Charles Alfred Edwin. No. 1512. Constable Flewellen, Thomas George. •(•No. 1681. Detective O’Brien, Edward Francis. No. 1796. Detective Tricklebank, William. No. 1836. Constable Wade, Richard Graham. No. 1849. Constable Isbister, John. No. 1891. Detective Jarrold, Ernest Carlyle. |No. 1930. Constable Coutts, John. No. 1964. Constable Thom, William Dunlop. * Completed examination; previously passed in literary section. f Completed examination; previously passed in legal section. A. H. Wright, Commissioner of Police. Wellington, 19th October, 1925.

" i * ' ♦ * Police Examination Papers, 1925. FOR RANK OF SUB-INSPECTOR. Evidence. Time allowed : Three Hours. (1.) What is meant by hearsay evidence ? State shortly in what cases such evidence is admissible. (2.) Define: Judicial notice; deposition; admission; credit; privilege. (3.) What facts must be proved in the following cases:— (a.) An information charging accused with perjury. (b.) A complaint by a single woman that A is the putative father of her unborn child. (4.) Explain what is meant by the credibility of witnesses and weight of evidence. (5.) State the provisions of the Evidence Act, 1908, dealing with the competency of witnesses. (6.) What is a dying declaration, and in what cases is such a declaration admissible in evidence ? Refer to the leading case on the subject. (7.) In what cases does the evidence of the principal witness require corroboration ? Refer shortly to certain offences which are required by statute to be corroborated before conviction. What is the reason for such a rule ?

(8.) State what evidence is admissible to prove guilty knowledge on the part of a person charged with receiving stolen goods. Refer to the provisions of the Crimes Act in this respect. (9.) What do you know of the following cases : (a) Rex v. Bogan; ( b) Marks v. McCarthy; (c) Copeland v. Cummings; (d) Rex v. Biddehough; (e) Rex v. O' Shaughnessy ? Prescribed Statutes. Time allowed : Three Hours. (1.) Set out shortly the principal statutory matters of ,-..-SSSI justification or excuse for the commission of offences as found in the Crimes Act, 1908. (2.) Define an “ unlawful assembly,” and distinguish it from ,$i a riot. What is the effect of reading the Riot Act, 1 V - 1 and upon whom does such a duty fall ? (3.) Ais convicted of theft of a suit-case. What authority ... v-tW have the convicting Justices to order restitution of ‘ K the suit-case to its owner ? What is the position if v' the stolen property has been pawned ? What is the tfeffect of the decision in The King v. Mailer ? (4.) What is meant by “ perpetuating testimony ” ? State shortly the provisions of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1908, affecting this matter. (5.) Define: Theft; false pretences. Under what circumstances may an accused person on bail be arrested ? (6.) Under what conditions may a license to sell liquor be removed from one house to another ? What objection can be taken to such an application, and what statutory conditions must be observed before such an application can be granted ? - ' (7.) State shortly the provisions of the Gaming Act, 1908, and its amendments, which deal with (a) race meetings, (b) lotteries, (c) art-unions. (8.) Enumerate the provisions of the Police Offences Act, 1908, which deal with : (a) Boxing contests; (6) offensive publications ; (c) cruelty to animals. (9.) Define “extradition,” and state briefly the procedure and evidence required to obtain an order for extradition against A a criminal who has landed in New Zealand from Victoria. (10.) What do you know of the following cases : (a) Cassells v. Hutcheson and another; (b) Turner v. Patterson; (c) Tucker v. Hazelhurst; (d) Olsen v. Cruickshank ; (e) Dolling v. Bird ? Police Force Act and Regulations. Time allowed : Three Hours. (1.) State the provisions of section 6 of the Police Force Amendment Act, 1924, relating to members of the Force who resigned to join the Expeditionary Force and rejoined. (2.) By whom may a charge of misconduct against a constable be heard ? (3.) Where a Superintendent, Inspector, or Sub-Inspector is. charged with misconduct, how are the charges dealt with ? (4.) Who are entitled to copies of the Police Code used in sending confidential telegrams ? (5.) What do the regulations say about house allowance ? (6.) What duties are imposed by the regulations upon Superintendents ? (7.) When is a member of the Force charged with misconduct allowed to be represented by a solicitor at a departmental inquiry ? (8.) What badge of mourning may be worn by members of the Force of each rank ? (9.) What directions are given in the regulations respecting prosecutions for perjury ? Police and Detective Duties. Time allowed : Three Hours. (1.) In 1921 instructions were issued by circular in the Police Gazette respecting offences against the criminal law which are also offences against the Customs Acts : state shortly what those instructions were. (2.) A man who has seduced a girl finds that she is pergnant and requests a chemist to supply him with medicine to bring on a miscarriage. The chemist ostensibly agrees, but supplies him with a harmless mixture which he paid for and took away. The girl refused to receive, or take the mixture, which subsequently comes into the hands of the police, is analyzed artil found to be innocuous. Could the man be charged with a criminal offence ? If so, what ? If you know of any cases on the point quote them.

(3.) Who are barred from serving in any capacity on or about the bar of licensed premises, and under what circumstances are they so barred ? State exceptions, if any. (4.) Section 43 of the Licensing Amendment Act, 1910, provides that districts may be gazetted in which no liquor shall be supplied to Natives except under certain conditions. What are the conditions, what parts of New Zealand have been gazetted, and what is the definition of “ Native ” ? (5.) Discuss the difference, if any, between playing pool for small stakes in a public billiard-saloon not on licensed premises and in a billiard-room on licensed premises. Quote cases, and explain their purport. (6.) After the commital for trial of an offender you discover important evidence that was not available before the committal. You suspect that the witness may be leaving New Zealand before the trial. What steps would you take, and what could be done so that the evidence would be available at the trial ? (7.) To what offences do Part I and Part II of the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881 (Imperial), apply ? Answer as briefly as possible. (8.) A. 8., who lived in Wellington, found a nearly new overcoat, valued at £4 155., in the street; he took it home, where it remained unused for six months, during which time he made inquiries for the owner, but could not find one. Seven months after he found it a constable informed him that a coat had been lost by John Jones, tobacconist, of Willis Street, and that he had heard that A. B. had a similar coat. The constable described the coat to A. 8., and told him that the owner’s name and address were written with an indelible pencil inside one of the pockets. A. B. denied having such a coat, and took the constable to his house, where he produced an old coat not answering the description and which he said was the only one he had. A fortnight later the owner saw A. B. in the street wearing his coat,* you were on beat duty, and he sought your assistance : what would you do, and what charge, if any, could be laid against A. B. ? Discuss the criminal law on the question of “ found property.”

Arithmetic. Time allowed : Three Hours and a Half. (1.) Simplify (2.) Three men own a ship, the first two holding £ and f of it respectively. If the third man’s share is worth £1,400, what is the worth of the ship ? (3.) Express of £2 10s. sd. as the decimal of £34 7s. fid. (4.) Find the value of 19 tons 2 cwt. 3 qr. at £3 17s. fid. per ton. (5.) In 1914 the area planted in oats in New Zealand was 429,675 acres, and the total yield of oats was 24,621,976 bushels: find to two decimal places the yield in bushels per acre. (6.) Add together -4375 florins, 2-125 half-sovereigns, 6-15 of 10d., and 8-125 half-crowns. (7.) When a railway company charges 16s. for the carriage of 8 cwt. for 54 miles, how much should they charge for carrying 14 cwt. a distance of 36 miles ? (8.) A person buys coffee at £5 12s. 6d. per hundredweight, and chicory at £2 ss. 6d. per hundredweight, and mixes them in the proportion of 2 of chicory to 5 of coffee. He retails the mixture at Is. 3d. a pound : what is his gain per cent. ? (9.) What is the average of the following readings of a barometer : 28-2, 29-35, 30-27, 29-03, 28-8, 29-95, and 30-62 ? (10.) Find the cost of carpeting a room 20 ft. by 17 ft. 6 in. with carpet 2 ft. 4 in. wide at 3s. a yard. (11.) Find the simple interest on £328 15s. for two years 146 days at 2J per cent, per annum. (12.) If a bankrupt pays ss. 6£d. in the pound, how much does a creditor lose whose claim amounts to £526 10s. ?

Geography. Time allowed : One Hour and a Half. (1.) In the outline map of the South Island of New Zealand supplied to you insert the following : Southern Alps, Kaikoura Mountains, Mount Cook, Mount Earnslaw, Mount Aspiring, Tasman Glacier, Franz Joseph Glacier, Lake Coleridge, Lake Wakatipu, Lake Te Anau, Lake Manapouri, Lake Ellesmere, Clutha River, Rakaia River, Waitaki River, Awatere River, Buffer Gorge, Otira Gorge, Cape Campbell, Cape Farewell, Queen Charlotte Sound, Milford Sound, French Pass, Golden Bay ; and the following townsPicton,

Blenheim, Seddon, Havelock, Nelson, Westport, Greymouth, Reefton, Cobden, Hokitika, Invercargill, Bluff, Mosgiel, Kaiapoi, Roslyn, Christchurch, Dunedin, Lyttelton, Ashburton, Geraldine, Temuka, Timaru, Oamaru, Palmerston South, Balclutha. Mark in the railway from Christchurch to Invercargill. Mark all towns very distinctly with a square. (2.) Indicate in order of importance the chief primary and secondary industries of New Zealand. (3.) Describe any well-known trade route between New Zealand and England. (4.) Locate and say what you know about any five of the following: Quebec, Vancouver, Glasgow, Belfast, Liverpool, Calcutta, Cairo, Hong Kong, Geelong, Malta.

English. Time allowed : Three Hours and a Half. (1.) Write an essay of about 300 words on one of the following : Visit of the United States Fleet. Buy British goods. Capital and labour. Value of newspapers. Educational advantages of to-day. Pleasures of summer. (2.) Combine the following into one sentence : Sir Richard Grenville heard that the Spanish fleet was at hand. He had ninety men of his crew sick on shore. He was unwilling to abandon them. The odds against him were overwhelming. He determined to wait and fight the enemy. (3.) Punctuate and put in capital letters where necessary:— i cannot my lords i will not join in congratulation on misfortune and disgrace this my lords is a perilous and tremendous moment it is not a time for adulation the smoothness of flattery cannot save us in this rugged and awful crisis it is now necessary to instruct the throne in the language of truth we must if possible dispel the delusion and darkness which envelop it and display in its full danger and genuine colours the ruin which is brought to our doors. (4.) Change the following extract into the first person:— Chatham asked whether ministers could still presume to expect support in their infatuation. Could Parliament be so dead to its dignity and duty as to give its support to measures obtruded and forced upon it in that waymeasures which had reduced that late flourishing empire to scorn and contempt ? “ But yesterday and Britain might have stood against the world; now, none so poor as to do her reverence.” (5.) In a few brief concise sentences write, out the chief points of the following article

MURDER MYSTERIES. In finding Peter Mouat guilty not of murder but of manslaughter the jury may be considered to have given themselves, as well as the prisoner, the benefit of tho doubt. The intention attributed to the defence of attacking the verdict on the ground that the offence was either murder or nothing was not pressed, and Mr. Justice Reed pointed out that there was evidence to justify the conclusion of the jury. Even had there been no express evidence of the kind, would it not have been right to tell the jury that in the entire absence of evidence either of deliberation or of provocation it was a case where the maxim that “ the more benign presumption is to be preferred ” might be reasonably applied! There was certainly both a logical and a humane ground for tho milder verdict, and there is no reason to find in it another of those irrational compromises to which juries and even higher authorities have been driven by personal feeling or divided opinions or unreasonable laws. Good examples of the last kind have been supplied in countries where criminal procedure, following the provisions of the civil laws, lays undue stress on the confession of the accused and puts other arbitrary obstacles in the path of justice. About a century ago a man accused of murder in Switzerland was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment as “ vehement suspect.” In another case where an alleged prisoner could not be convicted of murder because he would not confess, the probability of his guilt was nevertheless considered strong enough to merit a sentence of fifteen years. We know that Peter Mouat’s sentence of seventeen years was not arrived at in this singular fashion, nor as the outcome of those more familiar processes of unreason which sometimes bring discredit on our jury system. As we have said, the jury which tried Mouat gave themselves as well as him the benefit of the doubt, and both parties were entitled to it. In the absence of evidence of deliberation he was entitled to acquittal on the graver charge,

and they were entitled to escape the responsibility for a verdict which could never bo recalled or amended. The thought which must have constantly haunted the minds of the jury, at any rate at the first trial, was the possibility that after a verdict of guilty the supposed victim might appear to confront those who had sent her husband to the gallows. It might have been but one chance in a million, but such things have occurred before, and may occur again. A classical case is that recorded by Sir Edward Coke as having occurred in 1611. A man in Warwickshire left property to his infant daughter which she was to take at the age of sixteen, and in the meantime she was entrusted to the care of an uncle. When the child was about eight or nine her guardian had occasion to punish her, and she was heard to say, Oh, good Uncle, kill me not! The girl did not go to school that day, and was nowhere to be found. Arrested on suspicion of murder, the uncle appeared at the assizes and was given till the following sessions to find the child. As his search failed, he procured another child to personate her, but the fraud was discovered, and he was hanged. At the age of sixteen his niece appeared to claim the property. Instead of going to school on the day of the supposed murder, she had run away into the adjoining county, and there she had remained. Wo have reported this case, says Coke, for a double caveat: first to Judges, that they in cases of life judge not too hastily upon bare presumption; and, secondly, to the innocent and true man, that he never seek to excuse himself by false or undue means, lest thereby he, offending God (tho author of truth), overthrow himself as the uncle did. A still more painful case of tho same kind occurred about half a century later in the same part of England. Some aspects of the “ Campden Wonder ” are still shrouded in mystery, and are likely to remain so, but the essential points of an appalling miscarriage of justice are beyond question. On the 16th August, 1660, William Harrison walked from his home in Chipping Campden, a village on the Cotswold Hills in Gloucestershire, to another village two or three miles away, to collect some rents for his employer, Viscountess Campden. As he did not return at the usual time in the evening, John Perry, his servant, was sent to look for him. Neither master nor man returned home that evening, but Perry appeared alone next morning with his master’s hat, band, and comb“ the hat and comb hacked and cut and the band bloody which he said he had found in the furze beside the road. He had also heard that Harrison had collected about £23 on the previous evening, and set out for home with it. Perry’s statements and movements were so suspicious that he was arrested, and after a week’s imprisonment he confessed that at the instigation of his mother and his brother Richard he had helped them to rob and strangle Harrison. The story was told with great particularity, but the body could not be found in the place indicated. With his mother and brother he was brought before the September assizes in Gloucester, but Sir Christopher Turner declined to try the case, on the ground that the body had not been found. At the following sittings, however, though the body was still missing, and John Perry repudiated his confession, declaring that “ he was then mad and knew not what he said,” the three prisoners were tried and convicted. Joan Perry was hanged first, not as the privilege of her age or sox, but because she was “ reputed a witch and to have so bewitched her sons they could confess nothing while she lived.” Like her, Richard Perry protested his innocence, and appealed in vain to his brother to confirm it. But just before his own death John Perry said “he knew nothing of his master’s death, nor what was become of him, but they might hereafter possibly hear.” It was a correct conjecture. They heard all about it in due course and from the best possible witness. Two years after his disappearance Harrison returned to Chipping Campden to tell an astonishing story. He had been attacked on the night in question, wounded, and robbed by three horsemen, and afterwards carried more dead than alive across country to Deal. There for the sum, as he understood, of £7 he was sold to the captain of a vessel which after being about six weeks at sea was captured by Turkish pirates. They sold him as a slave to a master who lived near Smyrna, but on his master’s death he escaped as a stowaway to Lisbon and so home. It was an almost incredible story, yet with some of its least credible parts not of a kind likely to have been invented. The wonder and the horror of the extraordinary business are enhanced by the sequel. The only reparation that was possible to the Perrys was to take John’s body from the gibbet on Broadway Hill, where it was hanging in chains. “ After Harrison’s returne,” writes Anthony a Wood, the Oxford antiquarian, “ John was taken down, and Harrison’s wife soon after (being a snotty covetous Presbyterian) hung herself in her owne house,” Why, the reader is to judge.

What the poor lady’s covetousness or her Presbyterianism had to do with it is not easy to see, but it is surely to her credit if the remorse for her share in the prosecution was not rendered tolerable by the sorry compliment paid to one of the victim’s remains.

FOB, BANK OF SENIOB SERGEANT. Evidence. Time allowed : Three Hours. (1.) Define shortly : Oath; affirmation; perjury; facts in issue; dying declaration. (2.) Explain what is meant by—(a.) A presumption of innocence. (b.) A presumption of continued existence. (3.) What are the rules which govern the admissibility of evidence of (a) Confessions; (6) opinions. (4.) When are facts showing system admissible in evidence ? Give shortly the reasons for such a rule and refer to a leading case on the subject. (5.) State shortly the provisions of the Evidence Act, 1908, dealing with the privilege of witnesses. (6.) What facts are required to be proved in the following cases:— (a.) A charge against the licensee of a hotel of exposing liquor for sale. (6.) A complaint by a wife against her husband of .failure to provide sufficient maintenance. (7.) What is meant by the competency of a witness ? Enumerate instances where competent witnesses cannot be compelled to give evidence. (8.) Define cross-examination, and say when evidence can be given to contradict a witness who denies statements put to him in cross-examination. (9.) How would you define an “ adverse witness ” ? What facts must be tendered to the Court before a witness can be treated as adverse ? (10.) State shortly what you know of the following cases: (a) Reg. v. Bedingfield; ( b) The King v. Boggs; (c) Rex v. Farrow ; (d) Rex v. Kaveney.

Prescribed Statutes. Time allowed : Three Hours. (1.) Define: Homicide; treason; warrant; affray; public place. (2.) What offenders may be arrested under the Crimes Act without warrant ? What powers are conferred on special constables by statute ? (3.) What is a recognizance ? Under what circumstances are recognizances taken ? What is meant by the estreat of a recognizance ? (4.) Under what circumstances and by what means may premises be declared a common gaming-house ? What is the result of such a declaration ? (5.) Define “ licensed premises,” and state briefly the sections of the Incensing Act dealing with the application for and transfer of a license. (6.) (a.) What objections may be taken to an information under the Justices of the Peace Act ? (b.) In what cases may an accused person claim the right to be tried by a jury ? (7.) State shortly the provisions of the Police Offences Act dealing with (a) furious driving, ( b) Sunday trading, (c) imitation of Court documents. (8.) What is meant by “ probation ? State shortly the provisions of the Offenders Probation Act, 1920, dealing with the conditions of release of an offender on probation. (9.) Ais found dead in an outhouse. Detail the steps you would take in connection with a Coroner’s inquest to ascertain the cause of the death. (10.) What do you know of the following cases : Murtagh v. Barry ; McFarlane v. Kidd ; Stevens v. Andrews; McKay v. McKenzie ? Police Force Act and Regulations. Time allowed : Three Hours. (1.) What duties are imposed by the regulations for Senior Sergeants at headquarters stations ? (2.) (a.) When a constable is sick and unfit for duty, what do the regulations direct him to do ? (6.) For what periods may he be allowed full and half pay while sick ? Can the scale be exceeded ? If so, under what circumstances and by whose authority ? (3.) State what you know of the regulation made in 1922 respecting vacancies in the Detective Branch.

(4.) If a single constable living in barracks dies, what has to be done, and by whom ? (5.) State the requirements of the regulations regarding “ Diary of Duty.” (6.) (a.) Define a “ sergeant.” ( b.) Section 32 of the Police Force Act, 1913, relating to “ goods ” in possession of members of the Force was amended in 1924 defining what “ goods ” meant: state what the definition is. (7.) By whom may warrants of arrest be executed, and under what circumstances is it necessary to have the warrant in possession when making the arrest ? (8.) State fully what the regulations provide regarding saluting.

Police and Detective Duties. Time allowed : Three Hours. (1.) What are the duties and powers of the police respecting wrestling contests ? (2.) You find a boy of fifteen years of age carrying a breechloading gun, 12-bore, in the street: what would you do ? What penalty is the boy liable to, and can the gun be confiscated ; if so, by whom ? (3.) In approaching a house you find a boy of 144 smoking a cigarette in the garden : what could you do ? (4.) You are informed by a reliable person that the rooms at the back of a shop kept by an Indian herbalist are being used for persons to smoke opium in and that the herbalist is permitting same and supplying the drug: what could you do ? (5.) (a.) You are stationed in Nelson and are inspecting licensed houses in that town for annual report. What matters would you keep in mind to enable you to decide that no objection should be made to the renewal of the respective licenses ? (b.) What particulars should your report contain ? (c.) When must it reach the Clerk of the Licensing Committee ? (6.) At a side show an expert with a pistol undertakes to shoot the ash off a cigarette smoked by a bystander. The latter voluntarily allows him to try, but during the {rial moves forward and gets shot through the jaw, inflicting serious but not fatal injuries. Could the shooter be charged with a criminal offence ? If so, what ? (7.) You are reliably informed that a certain house is used as a common gaming-house and that hazard and other unlawful games are played there : what steps would you take, and what evidence would you look for ? (8.) (a.) A Chinaman on Sunday keeps his shop-door opening in the street closed, but admits customers through the back door, which is approached from a private passage not in view of the street, and sells goods from his shop to them : could he be charged with Sunday trading ? ( b .) You find a man driving a motor-car which be had taken for a joy-ride, but intended to return: what could you do ? (r.) Last year the definition of “ public place ” within the meaning of Part II of the Police Offences Act was extended. State what the extension was.

FOR RANK OF SERGEANT. Evidence. Time allowed : Three Hours. (1.) Define: Facts in issue; facts relevant to the issue; judicial notice; presumption. ■ (2.) Define “ corroboration,” and state in what cases a witness’s evidence must be corroborated. (3.) How would you prove in Police Court, proceedings (a.) A public Act. (b ) A Proclamation. (c.) A private document. (d.) The handwriting of the accused person ? (4.) Draw an information for breach of a by-law, and state what facts must be proved before the defendant can be convicted. (5.) In judicial proceedings evidence should be given under the sanction of an oath or of a solemn affirmation equivalent to an oath. State the ordinary forms of oath or affirmation and say in what cases it is necessary to vary the form. (6.) Set out shortly the provisions of the Evidence Act, 1908, dealing with the protection of witnesses. (7.) A is drinking to excess and it is desired to place him an inebriates’ institution what procedure would *”! ” fyou adopt in’ 7 such a case, and what evidence would JP "T’you tender to the Court in order to secure his compav * _ SJmittal

(8.) What is meant by the following statement? “ A confession can only be received in evidence if made voluntarily.” (9.) A is charged with permitting drunkenness on his licensed premises : what evidence would you tender to the Court in support of such an information ? (10.) A material -witness for the prosecution is in prison: what steps would you take to produce him as a witness at the hearing ?

Prescribed Statutes. Time allowed : Three Hours. (1.) Define: Offence; assault; bail; bigamy; false pretences. (2.) State shortly under what circumstances can sureties of the peace be claimed. (3.) What duties tending to the preservation of life are imposed on persons by the Crimes Act, 1908 ? (4.) State shortly the provisions of the Police Offences Act, 1908, dealing with • (a.) Boxing contests. (b.) Tobacco-smoking by youths. (5.) A desires to obtain a publican’s license. State shortly the provisions of the Licensing Act, 1908, affecting his application. (6.) Draw an information for assault and set out the procedure and evidence required to be placed before the Court in order to obtain a conviction against the offender. (7.) A constable find young children destitute and living with drunken parents: what procedure is necessary in order that they may be placed in a receiving home ? (8.1 Under what conditions can Justices grant bail to an accused person ? What are the chief rules which must be considered by Justices in granting bail ? (9.) A is found wandering in the street, and he appears to be mentally deficient: what procedure would you adopt in order to have him placed in a mental hospital ?

' Police Force Act and Regulations. Time allowed : Three Hours. (1.) (a.) What service must a constable have to enable him to sit for examination for rank of sergeant ? (b.) When must he give notice of his intention to present himself for examination ? (c.) What subjects must a candidate for the Sergeant’s Examination pass in ? (2.) What duties do the regulations impose upon the police at fires ? (3.) How is “ found property ” that has come into the hands of the police dealt with ? (4.) When furnishing description for gazette of a person wanted for an offence the regulations direct that certain particulars be borne in mind : what are they ? (5.) Supplementary crime reports are directed to be sent to the Police Gazette in certain cases. Under what circumstances are they to be sent, by whom, and what particulars should be given in the supplementary ? (6.) In what way does the Police Force Amendment Act of last year enlarge the power of arrest ? (7.) The Police Force Act provides for police calling to their assistance certain persons under certain circumstances : what are the circumstances ? Who can be called upon and what penalty is provided for failure to assist ? (8.) What provision is made in the Police Force Act as to the age of retirement from the Force ?

Police and Detective Duties. Time allowed : Three Hours. (1.) You are in a street and hear a man who is in a balcony overlooking the street call out to a man standing beside you, “ You dirty scab ” : has he committed an offence ? If so, under what statute ? What would you do ? W (2.) Two hours after sunset you find a man and woman in an enclosed yard where they have no right to be and where they have resorted for an immoral purpose only : what would you do ? (3 ) You arrest a cook off one of His Majesty’s ships for drunkenness in a public place and an officer of his ship meets you on the way to the police-station and demands that'Sfyour prisoner be handed over to him: what you|do ?

(4.) You are on a country road and see the driver of a motorvehicle driving recklessly or at a pace dangerous to the public. You signal him to stop and he does so. What further steps would you take, and under what circumstances could you arrest ? (5.) Your attention is drawn to drinking after 8 p.m. on licensed premises. You enter and the licensee informs you that he had let his dining-room to a committee for the purpose of a banquet. He produced to you an authority from a Stipendiary Magistrate authorizing the letting of the room to the committee. What would you do, and under what circumstances would a prosecution be successful ? (6.) You find a person coming out of licensed premises after hours: what would you do, and what are your powers ? (7.) A man who is not in business and has no occupation or means has a small credit balance in a bank. He issues and cashes numerous cheques on his account, and they are dishonoured. The matter is reported to you. What inquiries would you make, and what charge, if any, could you bring against him ? If you consider a criminal charge can be sustained, make out a brief of the evidence you would endeavour to collect to prove it. (8.) You find a constable in uniform who was on beat duty being supplied by a licensee with a cup of tea in the sitting-room of his licensed premises. What offences could you charge the licensee and constable with, and under what circumstances would the licensee be justified in supplying the constable ?

Arithmetic. Time allowed : Two Hours and a Half. (1.) Add together 24gg + 19& -f- If. (2.) Take the least from the greatest of these fractions f, i*. ib h (3.) Of his farm of 57 acres 6 square chains a man sells 9 acres 6 square chains, what fraction of his farm is left ? (4.) It I go f of the journey between Christchurch and Dunedin by train and f by motor-car, and walk the rest, how far do I walk if the total journey is 215 miles ? (5.) What is the total value of a morning’s milk-supply of 50 gallons 2 quarts 1 pint if a can holding 12 gallons 2 quarts is worth 14s. ? (6.) How long will A, B, and C take to mow half a field together if A does the whole field alone in 4 days, B in 3 days, and C in 5 days ? (7.) A bankrupt’s sole assets were 5 horses, each worth £36 10s.: if he owed £547 10s., what dividend could he pay ? (8.) A, who owned -6 of a business, sold § of his share for £1,710 : find the value of the business. (9.) A traveller was allowed 11s. 6d. a day for travellingexpenses, but at the end of 20 days he was Bs. 4d. out of pocket: find his average daily expenditure. (10.) A farmer bought 2 cows at £9 10s. each, 3 cows at £ll each, and 5 cows at £8 10s. each : find the average cost per cow. • (11.) Find the amount of this bill: 5 bags of flour each 56 lb. at 2s. 3d. a stone, 3 tons 15 cwt. of coal at £1 Bs. a ton, 90 spoons at £2 12s. per score, £ mile of wire at l£d. a foot. Discount 3d. for every complete 10s. (12.) A farmer had one field of 25 acres which yielded 33 bushels of wheat to the acre, and another of 60 acres which yielded 32 bushels to the acre. If he sold his wheat at an average price of 6s. 3d. a bushel, how much did he get altogether for his wheat ?

Geography. Time allowed : One Hour and a Half. (1.) In the outline map of the North Island of New Zealand supplied you, insert the following : Ruahine and Tararua Mountain Ranges, Mount Egmont, Mount Ruapehu, Mount Tongariro, Lake Taupo, Lake Rotorua, Lake Wairarapa, Cape Brett, East Cape, Cape Palliser, Cook Strait, Bay of Plenty, Poverty Bay, Hauraki Gulf, Waitemata Harbour, Port Nicholson, Great Barrier Island, White Island, Kapiti Island; and the following towns—-Mangonui, Russell, Whangarei, Helensville, Thames, Te Aroha, Mercer, Cambridge, Rotorua, Wairakei, Napier, Hastings, Waipawa, Woodville, Dannevirke, Eltham, Stratford, Hawera, New Plymouth, Patea, Wanganui,

—P.G.

Palmerston North, Levin, Otaki, Foxton, Masterton Pahiatua, Auckland, Wellington, Gisborne, Tauranga Whakatane. Mark in the Main Trunk Railway. Indicate all towns by name and with a square. (2.) Describe which steamer route you would prefer in going from New Zealand to England, and give your reasons. What ports would you call at ?

English. Time allowed : Two Hours and a Half. (1.) Dictation and spelling (as dictated by Supervisor). (2.) Write an essay of about 250 words on one of the following The United States Navy. Exhibitions. A football match. Any story you have read. Modern inventions. A brave action. (3.) Put in stops and capitals where necessary in the fol lowing : hallo cried the gentleman sir your servant said mr pecksniff taking off his hat i am proud to make your acquaintance come off the grass repeated the gentleman warmly we are unwilling to intrude sir mr pecksniff smilingly began but you are intruding returned the other unwarrantably intruding trespassing you see a gravel walk dont you what do you think its meant for open the gate there show that party out with that he clapped down the window again and disappeared. .

7 Dictation and Spelling. Instructions to Supervisor. The passage for dictation should be read out right through once, then slowly, a short phrase at a time, so as to permit the candidate to write in his best possible style. The whole passage should then be finally read right through so as to admit of correct punctuation. The words for spelling should be dictated slowly and distinctly, the meaning of each word being explained. As soon as the dictation and spelling are finished candidates must hand in their papers without delay. Candidates must put in their own stops and capital letters. In a small way every New-Zealander can help to combat the menace of deforestation in this country. Where the bush has disappeared from the hillsides, and signs of erosion appear on the steep parts of the farm lands, the farmer must make an effort to plant a few trees there at once, so that on his land at least the beginning of slips may be checked. If every one of us realizes the threatening danger and takes steps not only to prevent bush-destruction but also to plant trees we shall be carrying out a work of national importance, and at the same time we shall be planting the seeds of forest-power in our own neighbourhood. proprietors, fiery, hemisphere, unnecessary, subterranean, familiar, precarious, uncontrollable, palisade, irresistible.