May 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 569

9. A fee of 10s. will be required from every candidate attending 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 Her Majesty’s navy, according to the number of appointments which it may be decided to make each year; they will be taken according to their position on the examination list. Candidates who obtain less than 880 marks in the aggregate will not be placed upon the list.

11. Candidates who are nominated by their Lordships and by the Secretary of State for the Colonies will be required to pass the same test examination in the first four subjects and in reading aloud 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 880 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 in Her Majesty’s navy on the 1st July in each year, and will be borne on the books of the guard-ship of the reserve at Devonport for disciplinary purposes. The period of training of Her Majesty’s dockyard at Devonport will be for five years, but it will be reduced to four years in the case of engineer students of the latter service who pass the examination described in paragraph 29, clause 1, and also pass very creditably in practical workmanship, professional subjects, and knowledge of engine-room duties referred to in paragraph 32.

14. 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 second year of service. The students in naval construction, on appointment, must join with their parents or guardians in a bond for £500 to enter, if required, into Her Majesty’s service as assistant constructors, if at the expiration of their training they should obtain certificates of good conduct and efficiency for entry in that capacity. They will continue to be under naval discipline until their entry as assistant constructors. (See paragraph 45.)

An assistant constructor will not be permitted to leave the service until seven years have expired after the completion of his term at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich, unless he shall pay the sum of £500. This payment is for the purpose of defraying the charges incurred by the public for his education.

15. Students in naval construction will complete five years’ service at Devonport in the training school for engineer students, and will be subject to the same conditions as to fees, pay, uniform, and other details as may be prescribed from time to time for engineer students. Their course of instruction will be laid down from time to time. (See also paragraphs 40 to 48.)

16. The parent or guardian of each engineer student entered will be required to pay the sum of £40 per annum for each year the student may be under training—four, five, or six* years, as the case may be. It will, however, be at the discretion of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to select from among the students entered at each yearly examination a number not to exceed five, 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 £25 only. Their Lordships also reserve the power to further reduce this latter sum in the case of sons of officers killed or drowned, or who have otherwise lost their lives on service. In making their selection, my Lords will have regard solely to the pecuniary circumstances of the parents or guardians of the students.

17. The payments are to be made half-yearly, in advance, to the Cashier of Her Majesty’s dockyard at Devonport; the first payment is to be made on or before the 1st July, the date of entry of the student, and the subsequent payments on or before the 1st January and 1st July, during the remainder of the student’s training. Should a student leave from any cause or be dismissed from the service, not any portion of the payments that have been made in his behalf will be refunded.

18. The parents or guardians of the students will also be required to provide the uniform (see paragraph 51) 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 training school at Keyham.

19. 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. "

20. 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.

21. The students are not to be checked pay while on leave, nor when hurt on duty. When sick or sent to hospital from causes beyond their own control, they are not to be checked of their pay until 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. When sick, or sent to hospital from causes within their own control, they are to be checked of their pay. 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 unfitness for the service, he will be discharged.

22. 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.

23. Students will receive practical training in the workshops, and instructions in iron shipbuilding at Her Majesty’s dockyard at Devonport. 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 engineer students’ school in the dockyard 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 construction and working of electric light, torpedo and gun machinery, and of becoming generally acquainted with the duties of a naval engineer.

24. Students will be examined once a year under the direction of the President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Those who fail in making satisfactory progress and give no hope of becoming efficient officers, or are guilty of persistent misconduct, will be considered annually with reference to discharge from the service.

25. The preliminary examination at the end of the second year of service will be as follows; subject to modification at any future period, if considered desirable:—

Marks.
Arithmetic and mensuration .. .. .. 600
Algebra .. .. .. .. .. 500
Euclid, I. to IV., VI., XI. .. .. .. 500
Trigonometry .. .. .. .. .. 500
Chemistry .. .. .. .. .. 300
Physics .. .. .. .. .. 600
History and geography .. .. .. .. 500
[Required for passing, 1,400.]
Total .. .. .. .. .. 3,500

Additional Subjects.
French .. .. .. .. .. 400
Elementary statics and hydrostatics .. .. 500

26. Students who fail to pass the examination will be discharged, unless for satisfactory reasons their Lordships sanction their remaining on the lower division for another year.

27. Students will also be examined in practical engineering at the end of their second year of service, and be required to reach a standard of 30 per cent. Those failing to attain this standard will be liable to dismissal. They will also be examined as to their practical acquirements and knowledge of steam machinery and shipbuilding respectively at the end of the third, fourth, and fifth years of their service by officers of the Admiralty. Prizes will be given annually at the dockyard to the students most highly reported on as regards their skill as workmen. A certain degree of proficiency in practical engineering and shipbuilding respectively will be considered essential at examinations.

28. The final examination of engineer students at the end of the fifth year will be as follows, subject to modification at any future time if considered desirable:—

I. Obligatory Subjects. Marks.
Statics, hydrostatics, and graphical statics .. 600
Hydraulics, pneumatics, and dynamics .. .. 600
Elementary theory of mechanism and machinery 600
Physics I. (heat and light) .. .. .. 500
" II. (electricity and magnetism) .. .. 600
Chemistry .. .. .. .. .. 500
Heat and combustion .. .. .. .. 400

• See paragraphs 30 and 31.