Mar. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 351

out hesitation. Stammering, or any imperfection of utter-
ance, will be regarded as a disqualification.
9. A fee of 1s. will be required from every candidate at-
tending 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, accord-
ing 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,
and by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, will be re-
quired 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 successful candidates will be entered as engineer
students at Her Majesty's dockyard at Devonport about the
1st July in each year; and students in naval construction,
not exceeding two in number annually, will be appointed,
from among engineer students who have shown special
ability, at the end of their third year of service. The
students must join with their parents or guardians in a bond
for £300 to enter, if required, into Her Majesty's service as
assistant engineers or as assistant constructors if at the
expiration of their training they should obtain certificates of
good conduct and efficiency for entry in the service. These
bonds and the indentures of apprenticeship must be com-
pleted 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 six annual pay-
ments during the six years of the student's training, viz.,
£30 each year for the first two years, £20 for the third year,
£25 for the fourth year, and £5 each for the fifth and sixth
years. It will, however, be at the discretion of my Lords to
reduce these annual payments during the first four years in
the case of sons of officers killed or drowned or who have
otherwise lost their lives on service. Should a student leave
or be dismissed from the service the payments which have
been made in his behalf will be forfeited.
15. The payments are to be made to the cashier of the
dockyard to which the student is appointed. The first pay-
ment is to be made before the student is entered, and the
subsequent payments on or before the 30th day of June in
each of the five succeeding years.
16. The parents or guardians of the students will also be
required to provide the uniform (see paragraph 39) or other
clothing, washing, and necessaries of each student. Board
and lodging, and medical attendance, will be provided by
the Admiralty. The students will be required to reside in
the dockyard or in a vessel adjacent thereto.
17. The weekly pay of 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 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 Service as Assistant Engineers or as
Assistant Constructors will be discharged. Should any
student in the course of his training develop physical un-
fitness for the service he will be discharged.
20. The 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. 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.
22. The period of training of students will be for six years,
which will be divided between Her Majesty's dockyards,
Devonport and Portsmouth. They will receive practical
training in the workshops, and instruction in iron ship-
building. 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 drawing 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, also of the construc-
tion and working of electric light, torpedo, and gun machinery,
and of becoming generally acquainted with the duties of a
naval engineer.
23. Students will be examined once a year under the
direction of the President of the Royal Naval College,
Greenwich.
The educational examination at Her Majesty's dockyard
at Devonport at the end of their third year of study will be
a qualifying one, and the subjects will be separated into two
divisions, compulsory and optional. The papers will be so
constructed that 40 per cent. in the compulsory subjects
will be the standard of qualification for passing; the optional
subjects will, however, be taken into account for the order of
merit. Students who pass the examination will proceed to
Her Majesty's dockyard, at Portsmouth, and those who fail
will continue serving another year at Devonport. A second
failure will involve dismissal from the service.
24. Students who fail at Devonport at the end of their
third year of study, and join Portsmouth at the end of their
fourth year, will be examined at the end of their sixth year
of service, i.e., after two years' study at Portsmouth. In the
event of their passing the examination they will not lose
time; but if they fail they will only be allowed one more
opportunity of passing, viz., at the end of their seventh
year of service.
25. Students will be examined as to their practical acquire-
ments and knowledge of steam machinery and shipbuilding
respectively at the end of the fourth, fifth, and sixth years
of their service by officers of the Admiralty. Prizes will be
given annually at each dockyard to the students most highly
reported on as regards their skill as workmen. Practical
engineering and shipbuilding respectively will be considered
an essential subject at examinations, and in the lists show-
ing the results of examinations the numbers obtained in
practical subjects will be shown distinct from those obtained
in educational subjects. Students will not be eligible for
entry as acting assistant engineers or acting assistant
constructors unless they obtain at least 50 per cent. of the
total number of marks for practical engineering or ship-
building on their final examination, and also display a
competent knowledge of the subjects taught in the dockyard
schools.
26. The educational examination of students at the end of
their sixth year of study will be a qualifying one, and the
subjects will be separated into two divisions, compulsory and
optional. The qualifying standard for passing will be 40 per
cent. in the compulsory subjects.
27. The examination of the sixth-year students in practical
workmanship and knowledge of engine-room duties, &c., is
to be held at the dockyard 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.
28. Students who fail to pass the examinations at the end
of their sixth year will be allowed to continue serving
another year at Portsmouth. A second failure at the end of
the seventh year will involve dismissal from the service. In
no case will the limit of seven years be exceeded.
29. The pay of a student in the seventh year will be the
same as during the sixth year, and the payment to be made
by the parent or guardian of the student in the seventh year
will also be the same as for the sixth year of service.
30. Students will not be entered as acting assistant
engineers or acting assistant constructors until they have
been pronounced fit for Her Majesty's service by the
medical officers, and have learned to swim.
31. Students who pass the examinations described in
paragraphs 25, 26, 27, and 30 will be arranged in two classes
according to the marks they obtain in the combined total for
the compulsory and optional educational subjects and practi-
cal subjects. Those who obtain 50 per cent., or above, of
the combined total will have the privilege of proceeding to
the Royal Naval College on the 1st of October succeeding
the examination, where they will pass through a course of
higher instruction. The engineer students will be entered
as acting assistant engineers on the 1st of July of each year,