310

321

332

Papers used at Open Competitions :

Clerkships (Class I.), June 1873

Clerkships in the Offices of the Solicitor to the Treasury and the Solicitor to the Customs

[*** For papers set at the Military Entrance Examinations, see Appendix VI., p. 365, and for those set at the examinations for the India Civil Service, see Appendix VII., p. 467.]

COMPETITION, PAPERS SET AT AN OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINA-
SCHEME I.
TION FOR CLERKSHIPS IN THE HOME CIVIL SER-
JUNE 1873.
VICE (HELD IN JUNE 1873 UNDER THE REGULATIONS No. I.
OF DECEMBER 6th, 1870.†)

* In these subjects there will be an oral examination, the time and place of which will be notified to the candidates who take them up.

† See regulations printed at p. 21.

NOTICES.

1. Every Candidate is required to present himself punctually at the times specified in the Time Table.

2. No Candidate can be allowed to quit the Examination Room until he has given up the Paper on which he is engaged.

3. Candidates are required to write their Names at the top of every sheet of paper which they use.

4. Any Candidate who is dissatisfied with the pens, ink, or paper supplied to him is requested to apply to one of the Examiners; but those who are accustomed to use any particular kind of pen are recommended to bring it with them.

5. Cases having occurred in which Candidates under examination have been detected in attempting to use books and manuscripts which they had brought with them for their assistance, the Civil Service Commissioners think it right to give notice that they will regard any offence of this description, committed either in the Examination Room or elsewhere during the hours of examination, as affecting the moral character of the Candidate, and as rendering it necessary that his certificate should be refused.

Any Candidate copying from the papers of another, or permitting his own papers to be copied, or receiving or giving assistance of any description, will expose himself to the same penalty.

6. The result of the Examination will be communicated to each Candidate by letter from this Office.

Civil Service Commission.

June 1873.

COMPETITION,
SCHEME I
June 1873.

SUBJECTS FOR ENGLISH COMPOSITION.

Tuesday, 10th June 1873. 10 A.M. to 1 P.M.

In this exercise attention should be paid to handwriting, spelling, punctuation, grammar, and style.

I. The use and abuse of Fiction as an Instrument of Education;

or

II. Illustrate from History the advantages or disadvantages of Go

vernment by Party;

or

III. Selecting any one of the following countries, viz., Russia, Egypt, Brazil, Scotland, show how its history has been influenced by its geographical position and physical features.

One subject only to be attempted.