Feb. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 195

Secretary of State for the colonies. These candidates will be subject to precisely the same regulations as regards educational examination, &c., as herein laid down for nominated candidates.

2. The number of appointments to be made in each year, and the dockyards at which engineer students are to be entered, will be fixed by their Lordships.

3. The list of candidates for these appointments by open competition will be kept at the office of the Civil Service Commissioners. All applications for the forms to be filled up by persons who wish to compete must be sent to the Secretary, Civil Service Commission, London, S.W., on or after the 1st January in each year, and care must be taken that the forms when filled up are returned so as to reach the Civil Service Commissioners on or before the 15th March following, as no notice will be taken of forms received after that date. The list of nominated candidates will be kept at the Admiralty.*

4. Candidates must not be less than fourteen nor more than sixteen years of age on the 1st day of May in the year in which they are examined.

5. Evidence of age and character will not be required before the examination, but candidates successful in it will not be eligible for appointment unless they satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners on these points.

6. The medical examination of the successful candidates will be held under the authority of their Lordships, as soon as possible after the result of the educational examination is made known. No candidate will be entered as an engineer student unless he is pronounced to be physically fit. Candidates in or near London will be medically examined by the Medical Director-General of the navy at the Admiralty. Those residing near one of Her Majesty’s dockyards, or one of the first reserve-ships, or drill-ships of the Royal Naval Reserve, or the flag-ship at Queenstown, will be examined by the medical officers attached thereto. The medical examination will be conducted in all respects in strict accordance with the instructions for the examination of persons for admission into the naval service. All candidates at the time of their medical examination must produce certificates to the satisfaction of the examining officers that they have been re-vaccinated, or they must be re-vaccinated, before they can be considered eligible for entry into the dockyard.

7. The educational examination will be held by the Civil Service Commissioners in London, Liverpool, Portsmouth, Devonport, Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dublin, Belfast, and Cork, and will take place in the month of April of each year. The exact date may be ascertained by application to the Secretary, Civil Service Commission, on or after the 1st of January in each year.

8. The following will be the subjects of the competitive examination, and the maximum number of marks for each subject:—

Arithmetic . . . . 300
English—
Handwriting . . . . 40
Accuracy and intelligence in writing from dictation . . . . 60
Composition . . . . 100
Grammar . . . . 150
—— 350
French or German or Italian—
Translation into English . . . . 150
Latin—
Translation into English . . . . 150
Geography . . . . 100
Algebra (up to and including quadratic equations) . . . . 300
Euclid’s Elements (Books I. to IV. and Book VI., and the definitions of Book V.) . . . . 300
Mechanical drawing (elementary) . . . . 100
(The construction of plane scales and the use of simple mathematical instruments as shown by the neat drawing of plane geometrical figures to scale.)

Total . . . . 1,750

All candidates will be tested as to their ability to read aloud with clearness, distinctness, and accuracy, and without hesitation. Stammering or any imperfection of utterance will be regarded as a disqualification.

9. A fee of 1s. will be required from every candidate attending an examination.

10. Candidates in the competitive examination who fail to pass in the first four subjects (those marked with an asterisk) or in reading aloud will be disqualified, and their other papers will not be examined. Successful candidates will be entered as engineer students in one of the dockyards, according to the number of appointments which it may be decided to make that year: they will be taken according to their position on the examination list. Candidates who obtain less than seven hundred marks in the aggregate will not be placed upon the list.

11. The candidates who are nominated by their Lordships will be required to pass the same test examination in the first four subjects as the candidates who enter for the competitive examination. They will also be examined in the other subjects to ascertain the extent of their knowledge and to determine their order of merit, and no nominated candidate will be appointed as an engineer student who obtains less than seven hundred marks in the aggregate.

12. Candidates will be informed by letter from the Civil Service Commission of the result of their examination as soon as it has been ascertained.

13. The candidates who obtain appointments will be entered as engineer students not later than the 1st July in each year, and must join with their parents or guardians in a bond for £300 to enter, if required, into Her Majesty’s naval service as assistant engineers, if at the expiration of their training they should obtain certificates of good conduct and efficiency for entry in that capacity. These bonds and the indentures of apprenticeship must be completed in all respects before the students join the dockyard.

14. The parent or guardian of each engineer student entered in future will be required to make four annual payments during the first four years of the student’s training, viz., £30 each year for the first two years, and £20 each year for the two subsequent years. It will, however, be at the discretion of my Lords to reduce these annual payments in the case of the sons of officers killed or drowned or who have otherwise lost their lives on service. Should an engineer student leave or be dismissed from the service, the payments which have been made in his behalf will be forfeited.

15. The first payment is to be made before the student is entered in the yard, and the three next payments are to be made on or before the 30th day of June in each of the three succeeding years. The payments are to be made to the cashier of the yard to which the student is appointed. In case of failure of payment the student will be discharged.

16. The parents or guardians of all engineer students will also be required to provide the uniform (see paragraph 33) or other clothing, washing, and necessities of each student. Board and lodging, and medical attendance, will be provided by the Admiralty. The students will be required to reside in one of the dockyards or in a vessel adjacent thereto.

17. The weekly pay of engineer students during their training will be as follows, provided they are well reported on by the officers:—

First year . . . . 1s. a week.
Second year . . . . 2s. "
Third year . . . . 3s. "
Fourth year . . . . 5s. "
Fifth year . . . . 8s. "
Sixth year . . . . 10s. "

18. Five weeks’ leave (thirty working days) on full pay will be granted each year to all engineer students whose conduct and progress have been satisfactory. This leave is to be taken during the school vacations at Midsummer and Christmas.

19. The students are not to be checked pay while on leave nor when hurt. When sick they will be checked of their pay after they have been absent for six months in the aggregate during any period of twelve months. At the expiration of this time a special report is to be made to their Lordships in each case. Students pronounced at the end of twelve months’ absence on account of sickness or hurt to be permanently unfit or unlikely to be capable of entering Her Majesty’s navy as engineer officers will be discharged.

20. Engineer students will be under the supervision of the Superintendent of the dockyard and a staff of officers, and subject to such rules and regulations as their Lordships may deem necessary.

21. Special regulations will be made for engineer students in the dockyards, so as to make a distinction between them and the workmen.

22. Engineer students in their first year of training, who may be desirous of leaving the service, and whose reasons are considered satisfactory, may be allowed, under their Lordships’ authority, to have their indentures and bonds cancelled, but this concession is not to be claimed as a right.

23. Engineer students will remain for six years at one of the dockyards for practical training in the workshops, and to receive instructions in iron shipbuilding. While the engineer students are being instructed in iron shipbuilding they are to be under the direction of the Chief Constructor. They will attend the dockyard schools for such periods, and to pursue such studies, as may from time to time be determined on; they will also pass a portion of their time in the draw-

• Applications for nominations must be made before the 1st February in each year, and should be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty if the candidate is the son of an officer of the navy or marines; to the Military Secretary, Horse Guards, if the candidate is the son of an officer of the army; and to the Military Secretary, India Office, if the candidate is the son of an officer of the Indian army.