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Appendix B.

TECHNICAL COURSES FOR WORKERS IN THE BUILDING INDUSTRY.

c/o Palmer & Turner,

Alexandra Buildings. 19th May, 1931.

Sir William Hornell.

Dear Sir,

I received your letter of the 16th to-day, and submit for your information a syllabus built up from:-

The City and Guilds, London

Sheffield Technical School

Holt Technical School, Liverpool.

Tools

All the above are practical courses, and the practical work is preceded by a lecture, usually 30 minutes, with profuse sketches in chalk on a large blackboard. are explained formally with demonstrations by practical men.

I have detailed the various courses and suggest that an easy test of arithmetic and writing (not necessarily spelling) is made before a candidate is accepted. Only workers with the tools are taken in the trade schools in England and in Ceylon.

I trust the enclosed will meet your desires, and that we in the industry will receive benefit from your efforts.

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Yours faithfully,

(Sgd.) T. HOLMES.

SUGGESTED SYLLABUS

(1) ARITHMETIC. Definitions, Notation and Numeration, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Cancellation, Fractions, Decimals, Ratio, Pro- portion, Percentage.

The mathematics used in architecture and in the building trades largely consist of the use of formulae of different kinds. In this course the con- struction and use of the formulae are fully explained, and the methods of their application are clearly demonstrated.

Elementary Principles-Use of letters; Application of principles. Equations Transformation and Transposition; Combined Operations.

(B) GEOMETRY & MENSURATION. This course gives complete instruction in the form and application of all place figures, and the mensuration of plane surface and solids, with their special application to architectural estimating.

Principles of Geometry. Preliminary Definitions: Lines, Angles, and Arcs: Angles and Perpendiculars: Measurement of Arcs and Angles: Parallels. Place Figures: The Triangle: Principle of the Right Triangle: Similar Polygons and Triangles: Geometrical Principles of the Circle: Inscribed and Circumscribed Polygons.