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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
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be ordered to be withdrawn.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 40 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will be ordered to be withdrawn.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, or who fail to obtain half-marks in seamanship, will
be "warned," and should they be again reported, or again
fail to pass in seamanship, they will be discharged. Any
cadet, however, who is reported for unsatisfactory conduct
during his final term will be discharged 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 con-
sidered 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withdrawn on the receipt of an official intimation of his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, October, 1890.

FORM A.

(It is essential that this form should be filled in and re-
turned, addressed to the Secretary, Admiralty, London,
S.W., with as little delay as possible.)

I, the undersigned, being the parent [or guardian] of the
candidate to whom the foregoing particulars refer, hereby
undertake to pay the regulated contribution of £75 a year
(besides expense of outfit and personal expenses for washing,
mending clothes and boots, pocket-money, &c.) while my son
[or ward] is in the training-ship; and I further undertake to
make him a private allowance of £50 a year (besides ex-
penses of outfit) until he passes for the rank of lieutenant.

(Date:) (Signature of parent or guardian.)

Members of Ashburton and North Canterbury Charitable
Aid Board elected.

Charitable Aid Department,
Wellington, 4th April, 1891.

THE following Schedule, showing the names of the
Members elected to represent various local authorities
on the Ashburton and North Canterbury Charitable Aid
Board, is published for general information.
P. A. BUCKLEY.

SCHEDULE.

Member of the House of Representatives elected, Newton
District.

Clerk of the Writs' Office,
Wellington, 8th April, 1891.

THE Clerk of the Writs has received a return to the writ
issued on the 16th March, 1891, for the election of a
Member to serve in the House of Representatives for the
Electoral District of Newton, and by the indorsement on
such writ it appears that
Sir George Grey, K.C.B.,
has been duly elected to serve as a Member for the said
district.
G. S. COOPER,
Clerk of the Writs.

Additional Land taken in Ashburton Survey District for
Purposes of the Hurunui-Bluff Railway.

A Notification.

WHEREAS it has been found desirable, for the use, con-
venience, and enjoyment of the Hurunui-Bluff Rail-
way, to take further land in the Ashburton Survey District,
in addition to land previously acquired for the purposes of
the said railway:
Now, therefore, we, the New Zealand Railway Commis-
sioners, in exercise of the powers and authorities conferred
on us by "The Government Railways Act, 1887," and of
every other power and authority in anywise enabling us in
that behalf, do hereby notify and declare that the land
mentioned in the Schedule hereto is taken for the purposes
above mentioned.

SCHEDULE.

The parcel of land mentioned hereunder:—

| Approximate | Being | Situated | Situated in the Survey |
| Area of | Reserve | in Block | District of |
| Parcel of Land | | No. | |
| required | | | |
| to be taken. | | | |

A. R. P.
16 2 11 | 2909 | XIII. | Ashburton.

In the Provincial District of Canterbury; as the said
parcel of land is more particularly delineated on the plan
marked 4962, deposited in the office of the New Zealand
Railway Commissioners, at Wellington, and thereon coloured
red.
Given under the common seal of the New Zealand
Railway Commissioners, at Wellington, this
first day of April, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.
JAMES MCKERROW.
J. P. MAXWELL.
W. M. HANNAY.