Oct. 17.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1617

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, and that the candidate is not less than twelve years of age when nominated. The examination of candidates will not take place until they are eligible by age under clause 6.

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 examination who is under thirteen and a half or over fourteen and a half years of age on the 15th July following; nor for the December examination who is under thirteen and a half or over fourteen and a half years of age 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:—

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

• "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 December, and the second period at that held in June of each year.

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 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.

16. (a.) Examinations in seamanship and study will be held at the end of each term.

(b.) Cadets who pass an unsatisfactory examination at the end of either of the first three terms will be "warned," and they will be liable to be discharged at the end of the following or any subsequent term should they again be reported as failing to obtain the proper number of marks.

The requisite standard of marks to be 40 per cent. in the mathematical subjects, and also in the total.

(c.) Cadets who fail at the final examination to obtain 45 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 Lordships to be unfit for the naval service, for any reason whatever, will be removed from the "Britannia," and it must be understood that this rule will apply to those who are considered unfit from insufficient physical development or weakness 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 (as laid down in Article 286 of the Queen's Regulations and Admiralty Instructions, 1893) 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.