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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 54

6. No candidate will be eligible for the June examinations
   whose age will not be within the following limits on the 15th
   July following, viz., not less than thirteen nor more than
   fourteen and a half years of age ; nor for the November ex-
   aminations whose age will not be within those limits on the
   15th January following.

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 consti-
   tutional 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 Commis-
   sioners 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 exami-
   nation will finally exclude him from the navy.

8. The candidate will be required to produce (1) a Regis-
   trar's certificate of the date of his birth, or a declaration
   thereof made before a Magistrate (a certificate of baptism
   will not be accepted); (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 follow-
   ing subjects :—

Marks.

i. Arithmetic: Including proportion, vulgar and
decimal fractions
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250
ii. Algebra: Including fractions, simple equations
and problems, and quadratic equations of one
unknown quantity
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200
iii. Geometry: Euclid, Book I., with exercises and
questions
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200
iv. English: Handwriting, dictation, reading with
intelligence, and composition
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150
v. French: Translating French into English, and
English into French; grammatical questions,
speaking, and dictation
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250
(No dictionary will be allowed, but the equiva-
lents of the less usual words in either language
will be given.)
vi. Scripture
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100
Candidates will be required to obtain half marks in arith-
metic, 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
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300
viii. Latin: Translation, grammar, and prose com-
position
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300
(No dictionary will be allowed, but the equiva-
lents for the less usual words will be given.)
ix. Geography: Including the subjects treated of
in Grove's Primer, and an elementary know-
ledge of the principal places in the British
Isles and dependencies
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150
x. English history:* A short selected period
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150
xi. Drawing, freehand and simple rectangular model
100
The final order of merit will be determined by the sum of
the marks obtained in the test and in the further examina-
tion.

10. Colonial and service cadets will be appointed on pass-
    ing 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 candi-
    dates who compete.

11. A candidate who passed 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 pay-
    ment will be at the rate of £75 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 Commis-
    sioners of the Admiralty reserve the power of selecting, from
    among the cadets entered at each half-yearly examination,
    a number, not to exceed eight, 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.

*"Gardiner's Outlines of English History" (Longmans) has
been selected as the present text-book for examination in English
history. The subject will be divided into three periods, as fol-
lows: Examinations to be held in November, 1888, A.D. 1066-1485;
June, 1889, A.D. 1485-1688; November, 1889, A.D. 1688-1820.

14. In addition to the annual payments mentioned in the
    foregoing paragraph, the parent or guardian will be charged
    with the personal expenses incurred by the cadet for washing,
    repairing boots and clothes, hair-cutting, pocket-money, &c.

15. 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.

16. (a.) Examinations in seamanship and study will be
    held at the end of each term.
    (b.) Cadets who fail at the end of their second term to
    obtain 40 per cent. of marks in mathematical subjects will be
    ordered to be withdrawn.
    (c.) Cadets who fail at the final examination to obtain 40
    per cent. in the mathematical subjects, including the theory
    of navigation and nautical astronomy, and 50 per cent. in
    the technical subjects, combined with physics and French,
    will be ordered to be withdrawn.
    (d.) Cadets reported to the Admiralty for unsatisfactory
    conduct will be "warned," and should they be again reported
    they will be discharged. Any cadet, however, who is reported
    for unsatisfactory conduct during his final term will be dis-
    charged without being allowed to present himself at the
    examination for passing out of the "Britannia."
    (e.) Any cadet who shall at any time appear to their Lord-
    ships to be unfit for the naval service, for any reason what-
    ever, 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 weak-
    ness of constitution, although no actual organic disease may
    have been developed.

17. 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.

18. 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."

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

20. No pay will be allowed by Government to cadets in
    the "Britannia." The pocket-money allowed to cadets will
    be charged to the parents.

21. As only cadets who are able to swim are permitted to
    use the boats belonging to H.M.S. "Britannia," the Lords
    Commissioners of the Admiralty desire to impress upon
    parents and guardians the importance of cadets being taught
    to swim before they join the training-ship, so as to enable
    them to obtain the full benefits of use of the boats.

By command of their Lordships.

EVAN MACGREGOR.

Admiralty, June, 1888.

Special Order made by the Manawatu Road Board, County
of Oroua.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th September, 1888.

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

GEO. FISHER,
(In the absence of the Colonial Secretary.)

SPECIAL ORDER.

RESOLVED, That to provide for the payment of interest and
other annual charges on a loan of £30, being an additional
10 per cent. on the original loan of £300 for the construction
of the Kauterawa Bridge, the present special rate of one-
twentieth of a penny in the pound be increased to one-six-
teenth of a penny in the pound on the rateable value of all
the properties in No. 5 Ward, with the exception of the
following: Sections 179 to 188, 255, 257 to 259, 261, 263, 285
to 288, 208, 209, 138 to 155, 62, 63, 65 to 76, 78 to 84, 18 to 21,
47 to 57, all inclusive; the whole of the Townships of Fitz-
herbert and Linton, and all Crown and Native lands within
the meaning of "The Crown and Native Lands Rating Act,
1882;" the additional portion of such rate to be an annually-
recurring rate for a period of twenty-six years; the whole
rate to be payable in two instalments on the 1st day of May
and the 1st day of November respectively in each year.

I hereby certify that the above special order has been
duly passed as required by section 75 of "The Road Boards
Act, 1882."

A. CLARKE,
Secretary to the Board.