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Trades and Callings Other than Professional. 



Class A. Highly Skilled Trades. 



Tn these trades, knowledge as well as skill is requisite, hence 

 applicants must give positive promise of being able to learn, and 

 that they will be able to acquire the necessary skill. 



(1) General personal smartness. 



(2) Preparatory education should have reached at least a fair 



knowledge of arithmetic, including decimals, and the 

 ability to write a simple sentence correctly and legibly. 

 Ability to make a scale drawing useful, but not essential. 



(3) Positive evidence of mechanical aptitude, and an inclina- 



tion for one of the callings in this group. The best 

 evidence of mechanical aptitude will be the production 

 by the applicant of a piece of work involving some 

 mechanical skill, such, for example, as a model of some 

 machine or part thereof, or something such as a boat or 

 house. Boys gifted with mechanical aptitude very often 

 produce this kind of work either in the Manual Training 

 Classes of the Junior Technical School or at home. In 

 the absence of any evidence of this kind, questions should 

 be asked with a view to discovering whether the appli- 

 cant has observed with success any of the various 

 machines, such as locomotives and electric motors, which 

 are to be seen almost everywhere. If a youth has taste 

 and aptitude for mechanical work he will at least be 

 able to give an intelligent description of such things. 



Class B. Medium Skilled Trades. 



Applicants who possess qualifications better than those needed 

 for callings grouped in "0" Class and less than those required for 

 Class "A" should be placed in this class. It may be noted that 

 weakness in preparatory education is of less consequence than 

 absence of aptitude and inclination, since the want of preparatory 

 knowledge can be remedied, whereas aptitude and taste is rarely 

 gained, however good the training may be. 



