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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 17

Revised Regulations with respect to the Entry of Naval Cadets into Her Majesty’s Navy.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 8th March, 1893.

THE under-mentioned revised regulations with reference to the entry of naval cadets into Her Majesty’s navy, received from the Secretary of State for the Colonies, are republished for general information.

R. J. SEDDON.

REGULATIONS RESPECTING NAVAL CADETS.—FOR THE INFORMATION OF CANDIDATES.

1. APPOINTMENTS to naval cadetships will be made by limited competition, with the under-mentioned exceptions:—

Four cadetships given annually to sons of gentlemen in the colonies, on the recommendation of the Secretary of State for the Colonies.

Service cadetships, the total number of which is not to exceed five in any one year. Service cadets will be selected by the Board of Admiralty from (a) sons of officers of the army, navy, or 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 received on duty within six months from the date of such action or injury; (b) sons of officers of the navy who have performed long or distinguished service, and who hold or have held rank or relative rank on the active list not lower than that of commander. Not more than two such latter service cadets will be nominated annually.

Applications for service cadetships should be addressed to the Military Secretary, Horse Guards, if the candidate is the son of an officer of the army; to the Secretary of the Admiralty if the candidate is the son of an officer of the navy or marines; and to the Military Secretary, India Office, if the candidate is the son of an officer of the Indian army.

Colonial and service cadets will be entered on passing the test-examination as specified in paragraphs 9 and 10, and will in all other respects be subject to these regulations.

The educational examination of all candidates will be conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners (address, Cannon Row, Westminster), who will deal with all questions connected with such examination and will announce the results. A fee of 10s. will be required from each candidate.

2. Except in special circumstances, not more than one-third of the number of candidates actually presenting themselves before the Civil Service Commissioners will be entered.

3. All nominations of candidates for naval cadetships are made by the First Lord, with the exception of a limited number which are at the disposal of individual members of the Board, and of the Secretaries to the Board of Admiralty.

A flag officer or a commodore first-class appointed to the chief command of a station, or to a separate command, and a captain, on first appointment as such to the command of a ship, will be allowed to nominate one candidate, provided the privilege is exercised within six months of appointment.

No captain will be entitled to nominate more than one candidate during the time he holds the rank of captain, but a flag officer or a commodore first-class may claim the privilege each time he is appointed to a command as above.

In the event of a candidate’s nomination being cancelled before he has commenced the examination, the officer who nominated him will be allowed to select another candidate for the same or following examination.

4. The nominations will be made half-yearly, as soon as convenient after the report of the last examination has been received from the Civil Service Commissioners.

5. The examinations will be held in London and at Portsmouth, and will commence on the second Tuesday in June and the first Tuesday in December in each year, and the appointments will date from the 15th July and 15th January following respectively.

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 December examinations, 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 constitutional 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 Commissioners 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 examination will finally exclude him from the navy.

8. The candidate will be required to produce (1) a Registrar’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 following subjects:—

Marks.

i. Arithmetic: including proportion, vulgar and decimal fractions
.. .. .. 250

ii. Algebra: including fractions, simple equations and problems, and quadratic equations of one unknown quantity
.. .. .. 200

iii. Geometry: Euclid, Book I., with exercises and questions
.. .. .. 200

iv. English: handwriting, dictation, reading with intelligence, and composition
.. .. 150

v. French: translating French into English, and English into French; grammatical questions, speaking, and dictation
.. .. .. 250

(No dictionary will be allowed, but the equivalents of the less usual words in either language will be given.)

vi. Scripture
.. .. .. 100

Candidates will be required to obtain half-marks in arithmetic, 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
.. 300

viii. Latin: translation, grammar, and prose composition
.. .. .. 300

(No dictionary will be allowed, but the equivalents for the less usual words will be given.)

ix. Geography: including the subjects treated of in Grove’s Primer, and an elementary knowledge of the principal places in the British Isles and Dependencies
.. .. .. 150

x. English history:* a short selected period
.. 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 examination.

10. Colonial and service cadets will be appointed on passing the test-examination; they must, however, obtain not only the proportion of marks in arithmetic and the other test-subjects required from the candidates who compete, but also an aggregate of not less than 660 marks in test-subjects.

11. A candidate who passes 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 payment will be at the rate of £75 per annum for the period in the “Britannia,” to be paid half-yearly in advance to the Cashier of the Bank of England, on receipt of claim from the Accountant-General of the Navy. But the Lords Commissioners 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.

Applications for the reduced scale must be received at the Admiralty not later than the 10th August and 10th January following the June and December examinations respectively.

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.

• “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 periods, as follows: First period, from the earliest times to A.D. 1603; second period, from A.D. 1603 to 1820. The first period being set at the examination held in November, and the second period at that held in June of each year.