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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 8

ing office. Means will be afforded them of acquiring the groundwork of the knowledge required by a naval engineer respecting the working of marine engines and boilers, including those repairs which can be carried out afloat, the practical use of the various instruments used in the engine-room, including the indicator, and of becoming generally acquainted with the duties of a naval engineer.

24. Engineer students will be examined once a year under the direction of the President of the Royal Naval College. They will be examined by the engineer officers of the Admiralty at the end of the fourth, fifth, and sixth years of their service as to their practical acquirements and knowledge of steam machinery. Prizes will be given annually at each dockyard to the engineer students most highly reported on as regards their skill as workmen. Practical engineering will be considered an essential subject at examinations, and in the lists showing the results of examinations the numbers obtained in practical subjects will be shown distinct from those obtained in educational subjects. No engineer student will be granted a qualifying certificate for entry at the Royal Naval College unless he obtains at least 50 per cent. of the total number of marks for practical engineering on his final examination, and also displays a competent knowledge of the subjects taught in the dockyard schools.

25. The examination of the sixth-year students is to be held in time for the necessary certificates to be forwarded to the Admiralty on or before the 23rd June in each year, and it will include tests of their skill as workmen. Those found qualified will, on the completion of their term of service at the dockyards, be entered as acting assistant engineers on probation, and proceed to the Royal Naval College at Greenwich on the 1st October succeeding the examination, where they will pass through a course of higher instruction.

26. Those engineer students who fail to pass the examination at the end of their six years’ service will be allowed to remain one year longer at the dockyards, and will then be re-examined, when, if they are unable to pass, they will cease to be eligible for the rank of naval engineer. The pay of a student during such year of probation will be the same as during the sixth year.

27. Engineer students will not be entered as acting assistant engineers until they have been pronounced fit for Her Majesty’s naval service by the medical officers, and have learned to swim.

28. The pay of acting assistant engineers while at the reserves will be 6s. a day, and they will receive 1s. 6d. a day in lieu of provisions, &c. While at Greenwich they will be provided with quarters, and during their first session they will be paid 6s. a day and 1s. 6d. a day towards the mess expenses. Those selected for further study will receive their full pay and 1s. 6d. a day towards the mess.

29. The period of study at Greenwich will be one session extending from the 1st October to the 30th June following. All will be examined under the direction of the President of the Royal Naval College on the completion of their course at Greenwich, and will receive certificates according to their merit, in three classes. Those who obtain first-class certificates will receive commissions dated the same day as their acting appointments. Those who obtain second-class certificates will receive commissions dated six months after the date of their acting appointments, and those who obtain third-class certificates will receive commissions dated the day after their discharge from the Royal Naval College. The additional time given for first-class certificates and second-class certificates will reckon in all respects as time served as assistant engineer. In the event of any acting assistant engineer failing to pass satisfactorily at the final examination at Greenwich, his commission will be withheld for such a period as may be determined on by their Lordships.

30. Two assistant engineers will be selected annually from those who take the highest place at the examination on the completion of their course at Greenwich, to pass through a further course of scientific instruction if they desire it. These two will be allowed to remain two more sessions at Greenwich, on the completion of which they will be sent to sea as assistant engineers, and after one year’s service at sea they will be considered eligible to fill vacancies occurring in the dockyards and at the Admiralty.

31. Those passing the second and third sessions at Greenwich will be attached during the vacations between the 30th June and 1st October to the dockyards or steam reserves, where they will be employed sketching machinery, attending trials of new and repaired engines, and gaining such professional information as will be most useful to them for the purposes of engine-design.

32. No assistant engineer who has passed three sessions at Greenwich will be allowed to leave Her Majesty’s service within seven years of the completion of his term at Greenwich, unless he shall pay the sum of £500 to defray the charges of his education. Such resignation to be subject in each case to their Lordships’ approval.

Uniform, Books, &c.

33. Engineer students are to be provided with—
    2 uniform tunics, blue cloth.
    2 uniform trousers, blue cloth.
    2 uniform waistcoats, blue cloth.
    1 uniform thick double-breasted warm overcoat.
    1 uniform pea-jacket.
    1 uniform cap, peak half turn down, with usual device of the civil branch.
    2 working uniform suits of blue serge.
    1 working cap.

Eight buttons placed by four to be worn on the breast of the tunic, and a single purple-velvet stripe round the sleeve of the tunic.

Patterns of the several articles of uniform are kept and can be seen at the Admiralty, Whitehall, and at the offices of the Naval Commanders-in-Chief at Sheerness, Portsmouth, and Devonport.

34. Copies of the authorized text-books necessary for use in the dockyard schools will be supplied gratuitously to the engineer students, but all losses will have to be made good. The books will become the property of the engineer students when they leave school, free of charge.

35. The foregoing regulations will be generally followed, but my Lords will modify them from time to time, as may be considered desirable.

Medical Examinations.

36. With a view to prevent parents and guardians from incurring the inconvenience and expense of preparing candidates for entry as engineer students in Her Majesty’s dockyards who may be physically unfit for Her Majesty’s service, it is suggested that the candidates be submitted to examination by the medical adviser of the family, or any other qualified medical practitioner, to whom the following points may be submitted as those upon which they will be physically examined by naval medical officers. It is to be understood that this private examination is merely suggested as a guide to parents and guardians, and to lessen the chances of disappointment, and that it is by no means intended to take the place of, or to influence in any way, the regular official physical examination:—

A weak constitution, arising from imperfect development or weakness of the physical powers of the body, either hereditary or from chronic disease, wounds, or injuries:

Chronic eruptions on the skin or scalp:

Malformation of the head, with a dry, harsh, divergent state of the hair of the scalp, fracture or depression of the bones of the skull, disordered intellect, imbecility, epilepsy, paralysis, or impediment of speech:

Blindness or defective vision, as tested by Snellen’s test types, in one or both eyes, fistula lachrymalis, and ptosis:

Impaired hearing, or discharge from one or both ears, disease or thickening of the lining membrane of the external ear:

Disease of the bones of the nose or of its cartilages, and polypus:

Disease of the throat, palate, or tonsils; unsound teeth, offensive breath from constitutional causes, unhealthy gums, scrofulous diseases of the glands of the throat or neck, external cicatrices from scrofulous sores:

Functional or organic disease of the heart or blood-vessels, deformity or contraction of the chest, flattening of the subclavicular regions, phthisis, hæmoptysis, bronchitis, dyspncea, aphonia, chronic cough, or other symptoms of tubercular exudation into the pulmonary tissues:

Swelling or distension of the abdomen, undue obesity, disease or enlargement of the liver, spleen, or kidneys. Rupture, weakness, or distension of the abdominal rings; vesical weakness, or incontinence:

The existence of any congenital defect, or of varicocele:

Any disease of or pertaining to the alimentary canal:

Paralysis, weakness, impaired motion, or contraction of the upper or lower extremities, from whatever cause; aneurism, a varicose state of the veins, especially of the leg. Bunions, distortion, malformation of the feet, or malposition of the fingers or toes:

Distortion of the spine, of the bones of the chest, or pelvis, from injury or constitutional defect.

By command of their Lordships.

G. TRYON.

UNIFORM.

Approximate cost of uniform, estimated to last three years with care:—

2 uniform tunics
2 uniform trousers
2 uniform waistcoats
1 uniform overcoat
1 pea jacket
1 uniform cap
2 working suits
1 working cap

£ s. d.
8 0 0
2 15 0
1 15 0
0 17 6
3 0 0
0 11 6

£16 19 0