2 



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. 



Tlie Judges are empotvered to fix the value of the Medals to be 

 awarded according to the respective merits of the Essays. 



All Essays, A'eports, Models, or other Articles intended fur 

 Cotnpetition must be lodged with the Secretary not later than 

 ()th May 19 14. Each such Essay, Report, Model, or Article 

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

 bearing outside the same Motto, and containing a Card icith 

 the Name, Designation, and Address of 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. 



Alanuscripts for which medals have been aivarded, or which have 

 been wholly or partly reproduced in the 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 cither the medals or their con- 

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

 jT^-^ ; No. 2 Silver, jC,2 : No. 3 Silver, j£\ : Bronze, los. 



