Successful use of mechanical appliances for the moving of 



timber. 

 Cheap and successful methods of increasing the durability 



of timber. 

 Cheap and successful methods of converting and seasoning 



timber. 

 Utilisation of waste wood (slabs, tops and branches, etc.). 

 But of course there are many other subjects. 

 As a rule, successful operations are more instructive than 

 failures, but where the cause of non-success can be indicated 

 with certainty, an account of such failure may be of much 

 interest and value." 



Conditions to which Writers must conform. 



The Jiidges are empoivered to fix the %)alue of the Medals to be 

 awarded according to the respective merits of the Essays. 



All Essay Sy Reports, Models, or other Articles i?ite tided for 

 Competition tniist be lodged with the Secretary not later than 

 \oth May 1913. Each such Essay, Report, Model, or Article 

 must bear a Motto, and be accompanied by a sealed envelope 

 bearing outside the same Motto, atid cofitaining a Card tvith 

 the Name, Designation, and Address (f the Competitor. 



Essays should be written on one side of the paper 

 only ; the left-hand quarter of each page should be 

 left as a blank margin. The lines should not be 

 crowded together. 



Manuscripts for which medals have been utvarded, or which have 

 been zvholly or partly reproduced iivthe Transactions, become the 

 property of the Society and are not returned to their authors. 



Judges cannot compete during their term of office. 



Successful Competitors may have either the medals or their con- 

 verted values, which are as follows : — Gold, ;^5 ; No. i Silver Gilt, 

 ;^3 ; No. 2 Silver, ^2 ; No. 3 Silver, ^i ; Bronze, los. 



