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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 12

Inspector of Factories appointed.

Department of Labour,
Wellington, 6th February, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the under-mentioned person to be an Inspector under “The Factories Act, 1894,” and to assign to him the district set opposite his name, viz. :

Name. District.
Constable JOSEPH CHARLES The Middle Island of the
STEVENS WILLIS Colony of New Zealand,
and the islands adjacent
thereto.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Labour.

Assistant Lecturer and Instructor at the Thames School of Mines appointed.

Mines Department,
Wellington, 3rd February, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

WILLIAM HENRY BAKER, Esq.,

to be Assistant Lecturer and Instructor at the Thames School of Mines, as from the 1st February, 1899, vice W. A. MacLeod, Esq., resigned.

A. J. CADMAN,
Minister of Mines.

Medical Officers, New Zealand Police Force, appointed.

Police Department,
Wellington, 1st February, 1899.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the following gentlemen to be Police Medical Officers :

Dr. EDWARD WILLIAM SHARMAN, for Auckland and Suburbs.
Dr. JOHN TEARE, for Wellington and Suburbs.
Dr. WILLIAM HENRY SYMES, for Christchurch and Suburbs.
Dr. ROBERT GORDON MACDONALD, for Dunedin and Suburbs.

WM. HALL-JONES,
For Minister of Justice.

Despatch. — Regulations for Admission to Forest Service Branch of the Royal Indian Engineering College.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 3rd February, 1899.

THE following despatch, received from Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, is published for general information.

J. CARROLL.

(Circular.)

Downing Street, 3rd November, 1898.

SIR,—I have the honour to transmit to you, for the information of the colony under your government, a copy of the Regulations for Admission to the Forest Service Branch of the Royal Indian Engineering College, Cooper’s Hill, for the year 1899.

I have, &c.,
J. CHAMBERLAIN.

The Officer administering the Government
of New Zealand.

REGULATIONS FOR THE FOREST SERVICE BRANCH OF THE ROYAL INDIAN ENGINEERING COLLEGE, COOPER’S HILL, FOR 1899.

[Post Town, Staines. Railway-station, Egham Telegraph-station, Englefield Green.]

STAFF OF THE COLLEGE.*

President—Colonel John Pennyquick, R.E., C.S.I. ; Secretary—Lieutenant-Colonel W. J. Boyes ; Bursar—J. P. Pasco, Esq., R.N., Retired ; Chaplain—Rev. H. Bowden-Smith, M.A.

Engineering Branch.—Assistant Professor of Engineering—A. H. Heath, Esq., Assoc. Mem. Inst. C.E. ; Professor of Surveying— ; Instructor in Geometrical Drawing—Arthur Hicks, Esq. ; Lecturer in Accounts—J. C. Hurst, Esq. ; Instructor in Freehand Drawing—C. B. McElwee, Esq.

Mathematical Branch.—Professor of Applied Mathematics—G. M. Minchin, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. ; Professor of Pure Mathematics—A. Lodge, Esq., M.A., Fereday Fellow of St. John’s College, Oxon.

Natural Science Branch.—Professor of Chemistry—Herbert McLeod, Esq., F.R.S. ; Professor of Physics—W. N. Stocker, Esq., M.A., Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxon. ; Lecturer in Geology and Mineralogy—Professor H. G. Seeley, F.R.S.

The staff of the College is only given in so far as it concerns the Forest Branch.

Forestry Branch.—Principal Professor of Forestry—W. Schlich, C.I.E., Ph.D., late Inspector-General of Forests to the Government of India ; Assistant Professor of Forestry—W. R. Fisher, Esq., B.A., Late Conservator of Forests, Northern India ; Professor of Botany—C. A. Barber, Esq., M.A. ; Lecturer on Entomology— ; Lecturer on Chemistry of Soils and Vegetation—A. H. Church, Esq., M.A., F.R.S. Instructor in German—T. H. Dittel, Esq.

[The arrangements hereinafter described are subject to revision under the orders of the Secretary of State for India.]

1. The Royal Indian Engineering College is primarily maintained, under the orders of the Secretary of State for India in Council, for the education of candidates for the service of Government in the India Public Works, Telegraph, and Forest Departments; but it is open, to the extent of the accommodation available, to all persons desirous of following the course of study pursued in it.

INDIA FOREST DEPARTMENT APPOINTMENTS.

2. The examination, which will be conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners, will be simultaneous with, and (except that German must be taken as an obligatory subject) in the same subjects and papers as the examination for the Indian Police Department,* which is usually held in June. Candidates may undergo the written part of their examination in London, Edinburgh, or Dublin, or at any of the provincial centres at which the simultaneous examination of candidates for admission to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, is to be held. A list of the probable centres may be obtained from the Civil Service Commissioners at any time after March, 1899. The oral and practical parts of the examination will be held in London only.

A fee of £2 is required from candidates examined in London, but when the written examination is conducted elsewhere than in London the fee is £3. Candidates examined at a college or school will probably be required to pay a local fee in addition to the fee of £3 (in order to defray the expenses of superintendence), as to which they should obtain early information from the college or school authorities. The fee payable to the Civil Service Commissioners must be paid by means of stamps of the specified amount. Instructions on this point will be issued to candidates about ten days before the examination.

3. The number of candidates to be selected annually varies according to the requirements of the Forest Service in India; the figures as regards each particular year will be advertised from time to time. In 1899 there will be seven appointments offered for competition.

4. Candidates for the Indian Forest Department are selected under the following arrangements :

(1.) An applicant must be a natural-born British subject, and must be above seventeen and under twenty years of age on the 1st June of the year in which he competes for an appointment. He must be unmarried, and if he marries before reaching India he will forfeit his appointment.

(2.) An applicant must send† to the Revenue Department of the India Office, on or before the 1st day of May of the year in which he proposes to compete,—

(a.) His name and parentage, a certificate or other satisfactory evidence of the date of his birth, and the written consent of parent or guardian that his name should be recorded as a candidate.

(b.) A statement of the place of education at which he may have been, accompanied by testimonials of good conduct, during the last four years.

(3.) Applicants will have to appear before a Medical Board‡ at the India Office, particular stress being laid upon good vision and hearing. A physical test will also be imposed so as to insure the selection of persons of active habits and powers of endurance.

• Candidates may, if qualified, enter for both the Police and the Forest Department. They will, in such case, have to pay the fee due in respect of each examination.

† There is no form of application; the documents specified in paragraph 4, (2), clauses (a) and (b), should be enclosed in a covering letter addressed to the Secretary, Revenue Department, India Office, London.

‡ With a view to prevent parents and guardians from incurring the inconvenience and expense of preparing candidates who may be physically unfit for the Forest Service, it is suggested that, before any such preparation is begun, candidates be submitted to examination by the medical adviser of the family, or any other qualified medical practitioner, with regard to the following points: (1) A weak constitution, (2) defective vision, (3) impaired hearing, (4) the existence of any congenital defect, (5) the condition of teeth. It is to be understood that this private examination is merely suggested to lessen the chances of disappointment, and that it is by no means intended to take the place of, or to influence in any way, the official examination, which is obligatory on all candidates. On the subject of the standard of eyesight required for the Indian services, a pamphlet has been published, under the authority of the Secretary of State in Council, by Messrs. Churchill and Sons, 11, New Burlington Street.