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 empowered to fix the value of the Medals to be 

 awarded according to the respective merits of the Essays. 



All Essays, Reports, Models, or other Articles ifitended for 

 Competition tnust be lodged 7vith the Secretary not later than Monday, 

 loth May 191 5. Each such Essay, Report, Model, or Article 

 must bear a Motto, a7id be accompanied by a sealed envelope 

 bearifig outside the same Motto, and containing a Card with 

 the Name, Designation, a7id 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. 



Manuscripts for which medals have beeji awarded, 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 either the medals or their con- 

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

 £,1 ; No. 2 Silver, ;£2 ; No. 3 Silver, ;£\ ; Bronze, los. 



