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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 47

of the Admiralty. Prizes will be given annually at the dockyard to the students most highly reported on as regards their skill as workmen, and prizes for distinction at the examinations in professional and educational subjects. A certain degree of proficiency in the educational subjects, and in practical engineering and shipbuilding respectively, will be considered essential at all examinations.

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

I. Obligatory Subjects.

Marks.

General paper in elementary mathematics and mensuration .. .. .. .. 500
Statics, hydrostatics, and hydraulics .. .. .. .. 500
Dynamics .. .. .. .. 500
Chemistry .. .. .. .. 400
Physics .. .. .. .. 700
Applied mechanics and graphical statics .. .. 500
Elementary theory of mechanism and machinery 400
Heat, combustion, and metallurgy .. .. 800
Steam and the steam-engine .. .. 800
Practical engineering .. .. .. 700
Workshop appliances .. .. .. 500
Mechanical drawing .. .. .. 500

Total .. .. .. 6,800

II. Optional Subjects.

Higher algebra and trigonometry, conic sections 500
Conic sections, differential and integral calculus 700
Practical physics .. .. .. .. 300
Design of details .. .. .. .. 800
Engineering .. .. .. .. 900

Total .. .. .. 3,200

Grand total .. .. .. 10,000

31. The following are the regulations for passing at the final examination, subject to modification at any time if considered desirable:—

(1.) The standard for admission to the Royal Naval College will be 60 per cent., or above, on the combined total of the obligatory and optional subjects.

(2.) The standard for passing with a second-class certificate will be at least 50 per cent. on the total of obligatory subjects, but less than 60 per cent. on the combined total of obligatory and optional subjects.

(3.) The standard for passing with a third-class certificate will be 30 per cent. or above, but less than 50 per cent. on the total of obligatory subjects.

(4.) Students who obtain less than 30 per cent. of the total number of marks for obligatory subjects will be ineligible for appointment as probationary assistant engineers.

32. Engineer students who fail to pass the examinations at the end of their fifth year referred to in paragraph 31, 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.

33. 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.

34. (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 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.

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

36. Engineer students who pass the examinations described in paragraph 31, clauses 1, 2, and 3, and paragraphs 34 and 35, 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 34, clause 3. Students referred to in paragraph 31, 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 31, 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.

37. 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 31, clause 2, will also be granted second-class certificates, and those mentioned in paragraph 31, clause 3, will be granted third-class certificates.

38. 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 34.)

39. 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.

40. 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.

41. 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.

42. 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.

General paper in elementary mathematics and mensuration .. .. .. .. 500
Statics, hydrostatics, and hydraulics .. .. 500
Dynamics .. .. .. .. 500
Chemistry .. .. .. .. 400
Physics .. .. .. .. 700
Applied mechanics and graphical statics .. 500
Descriptive geometry .. .. .. 400
Algebra, trigonometry, and conic sections .. 500
Conic sections, differential and integral calculus 700
Practical physics .. .. .. .. 300

Total .. .. .. 5,000

B.

Heat, combustion, and metallurgy .. .. 800
Practical shipbuilding (I.) .. .. .. 1,000
” (II.) .. .. .. 1,000
Shipyard machinery, appliances, and practice .. 600
Ship-drawing .. .. .. 600
Laying-off and mould-practice .. .. .. 1,000

Total .. .. .. 5,000

Grand total .. .. .. 10,000

43. 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. Those who fail to pass the above-mentioned examination will be