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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 62

30. Engineer students who fail to pass the examinations at the end of their fifth year referred to in paragraph 29, clause 4, will be discharged unless their Lordships see fit to allow them to continue serving another year at Devonport. A second failure, at the end of the sixth year, will involve dismissal from the service. In no case will the limit of six years be exceeded.

31. The pay of a student in the sixth year will be the same as during the fifth year, and the payment to be made by the parent or guardian of the student in the sixth year will also be the same as for the fifth year of service.

32. (1.) The examination of candidates for appointment as probationary assistant engineers in professional subjects and knowledge of engine-room duties will be held by the officers of the Steam Reserve in time for the necessary certificate, D 455, to be forwarded to the Admiralty by the 23rd of June in each year. Certificates of proficiency in practical workmanship, signed by the Chief Engineer of the dockyard, should also be forwarded by the same date.

(2.) These practical certificates from Steam Reserve and dockyard should be marked “Very creditable,” “Creditable,” or “Ordinary,” in accordance with the proficiency of the candidates.

(3.) Students failing to pass these examinations are liable to dismissal, or may be allowed to serve such further period, not exceeding one year, as may be determined on by their Lordships, and again submit themselves for examination.

33. Students will not be entered as probationary assistant engineers, or probationary assistant constructors, until they have learned to swim.

34. Engineer students who pass the examinations described in paragraph 29, clauses 1, 2, and 3, and paragraphs 32 and 33, will be arranged in three classes in the order of merit according to the marks which they obtain in the subjects above mentioned. They will be entered as probationary assistant engineers on the 1st July of the year of examination, and will be appointed as such to the dépôt ship at Devonport on that date, except those referred to in paragraph 32, clause 3. Students referred to in paragraph 29, clause 1, will join the Royal Naval College on the 1st October of the year of examination for further study; and the others, referred to in paragraph 29, clauses 2 and 3, will not proceed to the Royal Naval College, but will remain in the Steam Reserve at Devonport, to be appointed to Her Majesty’s ships as their services are required.

35. All the probationary assistant engineers will be confirmed at the end of their twelve months’ probationary time if their conduct and qualifications are reported satisfactory, and those at the Royal Naval College who pass in the first class at the examination at the end of the first session will receive first-class certificates, and those who fail to secure first-class certificates at the examination at the college will be granted second-class certificates. Probationary assistant engineers referred to in paragraph 29, clause 2, will also be granted second-class certificates, and those mentioned in paragraph 29, clause 3, will be granted third-class certificates.

36. Those who obtain first- and second-class certificates will be allowed to count twelve months and six months of their probationary time respectively towards increase of pay from 6s. to 7s. 6d. a day, and towards promotion to engineer; and those who obtain third-class certificates, and pass very creditably in practical workmanship, professional subjects, and knowledge of engine-room duties, will be allowed to count three months of their probationary time in a similar manner. (See paragraph 32.)

37. In the event of the conduct or qualifications of any probationary assistant engineer not being reported satisfactory during his twelve months’ probation, or of his failing to pass satisfactorily at the final examination at the Royal Naval College, his commission will be withheld for six months, or for such other period as may be determined on by their Lordships.

38. The pay of probationary assistant engineers will be 6s. a day, and they will receive 1s. 6d. a day in lieu of provisions, &c. While at the Royal Naval College at Greenwich they will be provided with quarters.

39. Two assistant engineers will be selected annually from those who take the highest place at the examination on the completion of their first course at Greenwich, to pass through a further course of scientific instruction if they desire it. These two will be allowed to study at the college for a second and third session. They will receive 7s. 6d. a day, and 1s. 6d. a day towards the mess. On the completion of the third session at the college they will be sent to sea as assistant engineers, and after one year’s service (or such other period as may hereafter be fixed) at sea they will be considered eligible to fill vacancies occurring in the civil appointments at the dockyards and at the Admiralty.

40. The final examination of students in naval construction at the end of their fifth year will be as follows, subject to modification at any time if considered desirable:—

A.

Marks.

Statics, hydrostatics, and graphical statics .. 600
Hydraulics, pneumatics, and dynamics .. 600
Descriptive geometry .. .. .. 600
Physics—I. Heat and light .. .. .. 500
” II. Electricity and magnetism .. 600
Chemistry .. .. .. .. 500
Advanced algebra and trigonometry .. .. 500
Conics and differential calculus .. .. 600
Heat and combustion .. .. .. 500
Applied mechanics and strength of materials .. 700
Practical physics .. .. .. 300

Total.. .. .. .. 6,000

B.

Laying off and mould-practice .. .. 800
Practical shipbuilding (I.) .. .. .. 800
” (II.) .. .. .. 800
Shipyard machinery, appliances, and practice .. 600
Ship-drawing .. .. .. 500
Metallurgy .. .. .. .. 500

Total.. .. .. .. 4,000

Grand total .. .. .. 10,000

41. Students in naval construction who obtain 50 per cent. or above on each group of subjects A and B will be eligible for entry as probationary assistant constructors on the 1st July of the year of examination, and to proceed to the Royal Naval College on the 1st October following for study.

42. Those who fail to pass the above-mentioned examination will be liable to be discharged, or dealt with as may be determined by their Lordships.

43. Probationary assistant constructors who at any time fail to obtain a satisfactory report of their qualifications will be required to withdraw from the service, and forfeit the amount of the bond, or such less amount as their Lordships shall decide to recover, unless the failure be due to sickness. The pay of the probationary assistant constructors until the completion of their training at the Royal Naval College will be the same as that of the probationary assistant engineers and assistant engineers of the same service.

44. Such probationary assistant constructors only as obtain first- or second-class professional certificates on their final examination at the Royal Naval College will be admitted to the corps of naval constructors, their first appointments being as assistant constructors, third class.

45. When appointed assistant constructors, third class, on leaving the college they will cease to be under naval discipline, except that they will have to proceed to sea for a term if so required.

46. Those who obtain third-class certificates will not be admitted to the corps, but will be eligible to receive appointments as draughtsmen in the dockyards.

47. Every student entering the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors will be liable to serve at any foreign naval establishment the Admiralty may direct.

48. The period of service in the third class for all assistant constructors to be four years. If favourably reported on at the end of this period as to character, ability, and industry, each officer will be eligible for promotion to the second class. Promotions from the second class to the first class of assistant constructors will be by selection. Those officers who have taken first-class certificates on their final examination at the Royal Naval College will be eligible for promotion to first class if favourably reported on after five years’ service, reckoned from the date of leaving the college, and those who have obtained second-class certificates to be similarly eligible after seven years’ service.

49. The assistant engineers who pass the second and third sessions at Greenwich will be attached during the vacations between the 30th June and 1st October to the dockyards or steam reserves, where they will be employed sketching machinery, attending trials of new and repaired engines, and gaining such professional information as will be most useful to them for the purposes of engine-design. The assistant constructors will also be attached to the dockyards during the vacations, and will be employed on duties appertaining to their position.

Uniform, Books, &c.

50. Students on entry are to be provided with the following articles of uniform, according to the patterns laid down in the Uniform Regulations, 1891: One blue-cloth uniform undress coat, one blue-cloth uniform jacket, two blue-cloth uniform trousers, two blue-cloth uniform waistcoats, one uniform great coat, two uniform caps, two working suits of blue serge, each consisting of one undress coat, one waistcoat, one trousers, and one waterproof coat and cape.

At the commencement of the fourth year students are to be further provided with one uniform frock coat.

Frock Coat, Undress Coat, and Jacket: The same as for clerks, but with one row of ¼in. purple cloth round each cuff, instead of white cloth.