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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 17

and the students in naval construction will be entered as
acting assistant constructors. Engineer students who obtain
40 per cent. in the compulsory educational subjects referred
to in paragraph 26, but less than 50 per cent. of the com-
bined total above mentioned, and also pass the examinations
mentioned in paragraphs 25, 27, and 30, will be entered as
acting assistant engineers in Her Majesty's navy on the
1st of July of each year, and will be eligible to receive third-
class certificates. They will not proceed to the Royal Naval
College, but will remain in the steam reserve at Portsmouth,
to be appointed to Her Majesty's ships as their services are
required.

32. All the acting assistant engineers will be confirmed at
    the end of twelve months' time from the date of their entry
    into Her Majesty's navy if their conduct and qualifications
    are reported satisfactory, and those at the Royal Naval
    College who obtain first- and second-class certificates at the
    final examination at the end of the first session will be
    allowed to count twelve months' and six months' time
    respectively for promotion only.

33. In the event of the conduct and qualifications of any
    acting assistant engineer not being reported satisfactory
    during his twelve months' probation, or of his failing to pass
    satisfactorily at the final examination at the Royal Naval
    College, his commission will be withheld for six months, or
    for such other period as may be determined on by their
    Lordships.

34. 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 the Royal Naval College
    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.

35. Two assistant engineers will be selected annually from
    those who take the highest place at the examination on the
    completion of their first course at Greenwich to pass
    through a further course of scientific instruction, if they
    desire it. These two will be allowed to study at the college
    for a second and third session. They will receive 7s. 6d. a
    day, and 1s. 6d. a day towards the mess. On the completion
    of the third session at the college 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
    civil appointments at the dockyards and at the Admiralty.

36. Acting assistant constructors who, at the end of the
    first session at the Royal Naval College, fail to obtain a
    satisfactory report of their qualifications will be required to
    withdraw from the service, and forfeit a moiety of the bond,
    unless the failure be due to sickness. The pay of the acting
    assistant constructors until the completion of their training
    at the Royal Naval College will be the same as that of the
    acting assistant engineers and assistant engineers of the
    same service.

Such acting assistant constructors only as obtain first- or
second-class professional certificates on their final examina-
tion at the Royal Naval College will be admitted to the
corps, their first appointments being as third-class assistant
constructors. Those who obtain third-class certificates will
not be admitted to the corps, but will be eligible to receive
appointments as draughtsmen in the dockyards.

Every student entering the royal corps of naval con-
structors will be liable to serve at any foreign naval esta-
blishment the Admiralty may direct; he will also have to
proceed to sea if so required.

The period of service in the third-class for all assistant
constructors to be four years. If favourably reported on at
the end of this period as to character, ability, and industry
each officer will be eligible for promotion to the second-class.
Promotions from the second-class to the first-class of assis-
tant constructors will be by selection. Those officers who
have taken first-class certificates on their final examination
at the Royal Naval College will be eligible for promotion to
first-class if favourably reported on after five years' service,
reckoned from the date of leaving the college; and those who
have obtained second-class certificates to be similarly eligible
after seven years' service.

37. The assistant engineers who pass 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. The
    assistant constructors will also be attached to the dockyards
    during the vacations, and will be employed on duties apper-
    taining to their position.

38. An assistant engineer or assistant constructor who is
    selected at the end of the first session at the Royal Naval
    College to remain for two more sessions at the college
    will be required, before commencing the second session, to
    enter into a bond, with surety, for the sum of £500 not to
    leave Her Majesty's service within seven years of the com-
    pletion of the term at Greenwich. This is in reference to
    defraying the charges incurred by the public for his educa-

tion. The resignation is in every case to be subject to their
Lordships' approval.

Uniform, Books, &c.

39. Students are to be provided with—
    2 uniform tunics, blue cloth ;
    2 uniform trousers, blue cloth ;
    2 uniform waistcoats, blue cloth ;
    1 uniform overcoat, same as worn by all classes of
    officers in Her Majesty's navy ;
    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. The engineer students to have a single purple
velvet stripe round the sleeve of the tunic, and the students
in naval construction to have a silver-grey stripe.

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.

40. Students will be required to find their own books, and
    a list will be furnished to each on appointment. They will
    also be required to find their own stationery and drawing
    materials.

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

Medical Examinations.

42. With a view to prevent parents and guardians from
    incurring the inconvenience and expense of preparing candi-
    dates for entry as engineer students in Her Majesty's dock-
    yards who may be physically unfit for Her Majesty's service,
    it is suggested that the candidates be submitted to examina-
    tion 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 physi-
    cally examined by naval medical officers. It is to be under-
    stood 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 here-
    ditary 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 sub-
    clavicular regions, pthisis, hæmoptysis, bronchitis, dyspnœa,
    aphonia, chronic cough, or other symptoms of tubercular
    exudation into the pulmonary tissues ;
    Swelling or distention of the abdomen, undue obesity,
    disease or enlargement of the liver, spleen, or kidneys ;
    rupture, weakness, or distention 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.

Evan MacGregor.

Note.—Appended to these regulations is a memorandum of the
several grades of engineer officers of the Royal navy, together with
the scales of full and half pay and other information ; and also cor-
responding information in regard to the officers of the Royal Corps
of Naval Constructors.

UNIFORM.

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