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Clerk. — Good handwriting and handprinting.

Use of typewriting machine. Write a few sentences from dictation.

Write a letter from memory on subject given verbally five minutes previously. Or as alternative to the letter draw a map or plan, or draw a picture from life or from memory.

Or as alternative to all above write in shorthand from dictation at twenty words a minute as minimum.

Signaller. — Pass tests in both sending and receiving messages in semaphore and in Morse or Myer. Not less than twenty-four letters per minute.

To give and read signals by sound.

To make correct smoke and flame signals with fires.

To give the proper signals (as in infantry training) to show the presence of enemy, etc.

Pioneer. — Extra efficiency in pioneering in the following tests or suitable equivalents:—

Felling a nine-inch tree, or scaffolding pole, neatly and quickly.

Tie eight kinds of knots quickly in the dark or blindfolded.

Build model bridge or derrick.

Lash spars properly together for scaffolding.

Make a camp kitchen.

Build a hut suitable for three occupants.

Or as alternative. — Make a table, chair, or cupboard, or two boxes with locks without assistance.

Seaman. — Tie eight knots rapidly in the dark or blindfolded.

Fling a rope coil.

Row a boat single-handed, and punt it with pole, or scull it over the stern. Steer a boat rowed by others. Bring a boat properly alongside and make it fast.

Box the compass. Read a chart.

State direction by the stars and sun.

Weather wisdom and knowledge of tides.

Swim fifty yards with trousers, socks, and shirt on.

Climb a rope or pole of fifteen feet; or, as alternative, dance the hornpipe correctly.

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