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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 51

The educational examination of all candidates will be conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners (address, Cannon Row, Westminster), who will deal with all questions connected with such examination, and will announce the results. A fee of 10s. will be required from each candidate.

2. Except in special circumstances, not more than one-third of the number of candidates actually presenting themselves before the Civil Service Commissioners will be entered.

3. The nomination of candidates for naval cadetships will be made by the First Lord, by individual members of the Board, and by the Secretaries to the Board of Admiralty.

A flag officer or a commodore first class appointed to the chief command of a station, or to a separate command, and a captain, on first appointment as such to the command of a ship, will be allowed to nominate one candidate, provided the privilege is exercised within six months of appointment.

No captain will be entitled to nominate more than one candidate during the time he holds the rank of captain, but a flag officer or a commodore first class may claim the privilege each time he is appointed to a command as above.

In the event of a candidate’s nomination being cancelled before he has commenced the examination, the officer who nominated him will be allowed to select another candidate for the same or following examination.

4. The nominations will be made half-yearly, as soon as convenient after the report of the last examination has been received from the Civil Service Commissioners.

5. The examinations will be held in London and at Portsmouth, and will commence on the second Wednesday in June and the last Wednesday in November in each year, and the appointments will date from the 15th July and the 15th January following respectively.

6. No candidate will be eligible for examination whose age will not be within the following limits on the 15th January following the November examination, and on the 15th July following the June examination, viz., for the examinations in November, 1887, to June, 1888, not less than twelve and a half nor more than fourteen years of age, and at subsequent examinations not less than thirteen nor more than fourteen and a half years of age.

7. Every candidate must be in good health, and free from any physical defect of body, impediment of speech, defect of sight or hearing, and also from any predisposition to constitutional or hereditary disease or weakness of any kind, and in all respects well developed and active in proportion to his age. Before being examined by the Civil Service Commissioners he will be required to pass the medical examination according to the prescribed regulations, and must have been found physically fit for the navy. Rejection at such examination will finally exclude him from the navy.

8. The candidate will be required to produce (1) a certificate of the date of his birth,* or a declaration thereof made before a magistrate; (2) a certificate of good conduct from the masters of the school or schools at which he may have been educated during the two previous years, or, if educated at home, from his tutor or the clergyman of the parish in which he resides; and (3) proofs of good health.

9. Candidates will be tested by examination in the following subjects:—

Marks.

i. Arithmetic: Including proportion, vulgar and decimal fractions.. .. .. .. 250

ii. Algebra: Including fractions, simple equations and problems, and quadratic equations of one unknown quantity .. .. .. 200

iii. Geometry: Euclid, Book I., with exercises and questions .. .. .. 200

iv. English: Handwriting, dictation, reading with intelligence, and composition .. .. 150

v. French: Translating French into English, and English into French; grammatical questions, speaking, and dictation .. .. .. 250

(No dictionary will be allowed, but the equivalents of the less usual words in either language will be given.)

vi. Scripture .. .. .. .. 100

Candidates will be required to obtain half marks in arithmetic, and 40 per cent. in each of the other subjects.

Candidates will be further examined in—

vii. Mathematics: Harder questions in arithmetic, algebra, and geometry, as above defined .. 300

viii. Latin: Translation, grammar, and prose composition .. .. .. .. 300

(No dictionary will be allowed, but the equivalents for the less usual words will be given.)

ix. Geography: Including the subjects treated of in Grove’s Primer, and an elementary knowledge of the principal places in the British isles and dependencies .. .. .. .. 150

x. English history: A short selected period. (A text-book to be named) .. .. .. 150

xi. Drawing: Freehand and simple rectangular model .. .. .. .. 100

• A certificate of baptism will not be accepted.

The final order of merit will be determined by the sum of the marks obtained in the test and in the further examination.

10. Colonial and service cadets will be appointed on passing the test examination. They must, however, obtain 660 marks in the aggregate, as well as the proportion of marks in arithmetic and other subjects required from the candidates who compete.

11. A candidate who passes the test examination, but does not succeed in the competition, will be entitled to compete at the next examination, provided he is within the limits of age at that time. No candidate will be allowed to compete more than twice. A candidate who fails to pass the test will not be entitled to another trial, but he will be allowed to compete at the next examination if he receives a fresh nomination and is still within the limits of age.

12. A candidate who, owing to illness, fails to appear at the examination for which he has obtained his nomination may receive a second nomination, provided he is still within the limits of age.

13. For all cadets entered under these regulations the payment will be at the rate of £70 per annum for the period in the “Britannia,” to be paid half-yearly in advance to the Accountant-General of the Navy. But the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve the power of selecting, from among the cadets entered at each half-yearly examination, a number not to exceed ten, being sons of officers of the navy, army, or marines, or of Civil officers under the Board of Admiralty, with respect to whom the annual payment will be £40 only. In this selection their Lordships will have regard solely to the pecuniary circumstances of the cadet.

14. The period of training on board the “Britannia” will be four terms; there will be two terms in each year. The first term of each year will be from February to July, the second from September to December.

The vacations will be five weeks at Christmas, two weeks at Easter, and six weeks at Midsummer.

15. There will be examinations in seamanship and study at the end of each term.

Cadets who pass unsatisfactory examinations, or who are reported for unsatisfactory conduct, will be “warned,” and they will be liable to be discharged at the end of the following or any subsequent term should they again be reported as failing to attain the proper number of marks at the examinations, or for unsatisfactory conduct.

If a cadet is reported for unsatisfactory conduct during his final term he will be discharged without being allowed to present himself at the examination for passing out of the “Britannia.”

Any cadet who shall at any time appear to their Lordships to be unfit for the naval service, for any reason whatever, will be removed from the “Britannia;” and it must be understood that this rule will apply to those who are considered unfit from insufficient physical development or weakness of constitution, although no actual organic disease may have been developed.

16. It is to be distinctly understood that the period of training on board the “Britannia” is a time of probation, and the parent or guardian of every cadet will be required to sign a declaration (on the admission of the cadet to the “Britannia”) to the effect that he shall be immediately withdrawn on the receipt of an official intimation of his being considered unfit for the navy.

17. Cadets will, on passing out of the “Britannia,” rank according to the amount of sea-time they obtain at their final examination, and those who obtain equal amounts of sea-time will rank in the order of merit in which they pass out of the “Britannia.”

18. The parent or guardian of every cadet will be required to provide outfit under the regulations in force.

19. No pay or pocket-money will be allowed by Government to cadets in the “Britannia.”

• By command of their Lordships.

EVAN MACGREGOR.

Admiralty, May, 1887.

Amended Special Order made by Waiwakaiho Road Board, County of Taranaki.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd August, 1887.

THE following special order, made by the Waiwakaiho Road Board, is published in accordance with “The Road Boards Act, 1882.”

P. A. BUCKLEY.

NEW SPECIAL ORDER.

RESOLVED, That a special rate of seven farthings in the pound be made and levied on all rateable property within the Alfred Road Special Rating Subdistrict (Crown and Native lands excepted), as described in the Schedule hereto, to pay interest and management on loan of £100,