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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 27

[TRANSLATION.]
“THE Crown and Native Lands Rating Act, 1882,” and
the Amendments thereof.

To each and every the owner or owners of land described in
the substituted valuation-rolls of Native lands supplied to
the local bodies, the names of which are set forth in
the Schedule hereunder, under the provisions of the above
Acts and all other Acts affecting the same or relating
thereto.

WHEREAS demand having been made to me, the under-
signed Colonial Treasurer of the Colony of New Zealand, in
accordance with the provisions of “The Crown and Native
Lands Rating Act, 1882,” by or on behalf of the said local
bodies, for payment of the rates appearing to be payable
under or by virtue of the said rolls for the years ended the
31st March, 1889 and 1890 :

Notice is hereby given to you and each and every of you
that rolls of Native lands are now deposited at the offices of
the said several local bodies, which said rolls are in the
Maori language, and show the rateable value of the Native
lands therein mentioned or described.

And you and each and every of you, the owners of the said
lands, are hereby required and directed to pay the said rates
on or before the 28th May, 1890, such payment to be made
by you at the office of the local body in whose district the
lands affected are respectively comprised, and as noted in
the said Schedule.

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SCHEDULE.

As witness my hand, this fourteenth day of May, one
thousand eight hundred and ninety.

H. A. ATKINSON,
Colonial Treasurer.

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Despatch.—Engineer Students and Students in Naval Con-
struction.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 7th May, 1890.

THE following regulations for the entry of engineer
students in Her Majesty’s navy, and for the entry of
students in naval construction, with a view to their being
trained in Her Majesty’s dockyard at Devonport, are pub-
lished for general information.

W. R. RUSSELL.

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Admiralty, 25th January, 1890.

REGULATIONS FOR THE ENTRY OF ENGINEER STUDENTS IN
HER MAJESTY’S NAVY, AND FOR THE ENTRY OF STUDENTS
IN NAVAL CONSTRUCTION, with a view to their being
trained in Her Majesty’s Dockyard at Devonport.

[The engineer students to be trained for service afloat as engineer
officers. The students in naval construction to be trained with a
view to their joining the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors.]

1. VACANCIES for appointments as engineer students in Her
   Majesty’s navy will be filled principally by means of com-
   petitive examinations open to all sons of British subjects,
   being of the prescribed age and of good moral character, but
   their Lordships will reserve to themselves the right to nomi-
   nate a few candidates at each entry who will be appointed
   on passing the examination specified in paragraph 11.

The candidates to be nominated will be selected by the
Board of Admiralty from sons of officers of the navy, army,
or Royal marines who have been killed in action, or who
have been lost at sea on active service, or killed on duty, or
who have died of wounds received in action, or injuries re-
ceived on duty within six months from the date of such
action or injury, or sons of officers of the navy or Royal
marines who have performed long and meritorious service.
The number to be so nominated will not exceed one-fifth of
the total number of engineer students to be entered. Except
as provided in paragraph 11, the candidates will be subject
to the same regulations as the candidates for appointment
by open competition.*

Three engineer studentships will be given annually to sons
of gentlemen in the colonies on the recommendation of the
Secretary of State for the Colonies, provided they pass the
required examination. These candidates will be subject to
precisely the same regulations as herein laid down for nomi-
nated service candidates.†

2. The number of appointments to be made in each year
   will be fixed by their Lordships.

3. The list of candidates for the appointments by open com-
   petition will be kept at the office of the Civil Service Com-
   missioners. 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 Ad-
   miralty.

4. Candidates must not be less than fourteen nor more
   than sixteen years of age on the 1st 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. Can-
   didates 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
   examinations 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 cer-
   tificates to the satisfaction of the examining officers that
   they have been revaccinated, or they must be revaccinated
   before they can be considered eligible for entry as engineer
   students in Her Majesty’s navy.

7. The educational examination will be held by the Civil
   Service Commissioners in London, Liverpool, Portsmouth,
   Devonport, Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Edinburgh,
   Glasgow, and Dublin, 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 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
Very elementary physics and chemistry‡ . . . . 100
Geography (including physical geography) . . . . 200
Algebra (up to and including quadratic equa-
tions) . . . . 300
Euclid’s Elements (Books I. to IV. and Book
VI., and the definitions of Book V.) . . . . 300
Freehand drawing . . . . 100
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Total . . . . 1,950

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.

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• Applications for nominations must be made so as to arrive at
  the Admiralty 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 Secre-
  tary, 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.

† The names of the colonial candidates are to be received at the
Admiralty from the Colonial Office on or before the 1st February
in each year.

‡ The examination in physics and chemistry will be easy ques-
tions in—Chemistry: Oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, the
nature of combustion. Physics: Mechanics, hydrostatics, pneu-
matics, electricity, and magnetism.