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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 46

18. Students pronounced at the end of twelve months’ absence on account of sickness or injuries to be permanently unfit or unlikely to be capable of entering Her Majesty’s service as assistant engineers, or as assistant constructors, will be discharged. Should any student in the course of his training develop physical unfitness for the service, he will be discharged.

19. The students will be under the supervision of the Admiral Superintendent of the dockyard and a staff of officers, and subject to such rules and regulations as their Lordships may deem necessary. During their residence in the Training College the students will be subject to naval discipline, under the supervision of the naval officer superintending the College.

20. During their course of training, the students will receive instructions in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and other theoretical subjects relating to engineering, under the Headmaster of the College, assisted by a staff of instructors.

They will receive practical training in the engineering workshops and drawing-office of the dockyard, and will also receive instruction in iron shipbuilding.

They will attend classes for such periods, and for the study of such subjects, as may from time to time be determined on. Means will be afforded them of acquiring the groundwork of the knowledge required by a naval engineer respecting the construction and working of the engines, boilers, and appliances in connection therewith, used on board ship, including the repairs of machinery which can be carried out afloat, also as to the construction and working of electric light, refrigerating, air-compressing, torpedo and gun machinery, and in becoming generally acquainted with the duties of a naval engineer.

While the engineer students are being instructed in iron shipbuilding they will be under the direction of the Chief Constructor.

21. Those students who fail to make satisfactory progress, or give no hope of becoming efficient officers, or are guilty of persistent misconduct, will be discharged from the service.

In the event of serious misconduct on the part of senior engineer students, which may not be of such a nature as to entail dismissal, their appointments as probationary assistant engineer will be withheld for such period as may be considered necessary, after passing for this rank, on the completion of their period of training. During this period they will be employed in the workshops only, and their conduct will be reported to the Admiralty quarterly.

22. Students will be examined twice a year, under the directions of the President of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.

The intermediate examination at the end of the second year of training will be as follows, subject to modification if considered desirable:—

Marks.
Arithmetic and mensuration .. .. .. 400
Algebra .. .. .. 400
Euclid I. to IV., VI., XI. .. .. .. 500
Trigonometry .. .. .. 500
Chemistry .. .. .. 300
Physics .. .. .. 600
Statics and hydrostatics .. .. .. 600
French .. .. .. 400
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Total .. .. .. 3,700
[Required for passing, 1,480]

OPTIONAL SUBJECTS.

History and geography .. .. .. 400
Higher algebra, trigonometry, and geometry .. 600

23. Students will also be examined in engineering and other practical subjects at the end of each year of training. At the practical examination at the end of the second year, 30 per cent. marks must be obtained for qualifying. Prizes will be given annually to the students most highly reported on for their skilful workmanship, and for distinction at the examinations in professional and educational subjects. Proficiency in the educational subjects, and in practical engineering and shipbuilding respectively, will be considered essential at all examinations.

24. Students who fail to pass either the intermediate educational or practical examinations will be dismissed, unless reasons, satisfactory to their Lordships, are given for their failure.

25. Students in naval construction not exceeding two in number annually may be appointed from among engineer students who have shown special ability at the end of their second year of training. The students in naval construction, on appointment, must join with their parents or guardians in a bond for £500 to enter, if required, into Her Majesty’s service as assistant constructors, if at the expiration of their training they should obtain certificates of good conduct and efficiency. They will continue to be under naval discipline until their entry as assistant constructors.

A form of the required bond is annexed.

An assistant constructor will not be permitted to leave the service until seven years after the completion of his term at the Royal Naval College, unless he shall pay the sum of £500 for the charges incurred by the public for his education.

26. Students in naval construction will complete five years’ training in the Training College, and will be subject to the same conditions as to fees, pay, uniform, and other details as laid down in these regulations, and as may be prescribed from time to time for engineer students. Their course of instruction will be laid down from time to time.

27. 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 and practice .. .. 500
Mechanical drawing .. .. .. 500
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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
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Total .. .. .. 3,200

Grand total .. .. .. 10,000

28. The students who pass the required standard will be allowed to proceed to the Royal Naval College for a further course of instruction.

29. In order to qualify as probationary assistant engineers, students must obtain the following proportion of marks at the final examination. These regulations will be subject to modification if considered desirable:—

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. Certificates will be awarded depending on the result of the final examination there.

The standard for passing with a second-class certificate will be 50 per cent. on the total of obligatory subjects. The standard for passing with a third-class certificate will be 30 per cent. on the total of obligatory subjects. Students who obtain less than 30 per cent. on the total of obligatory subjects will be considered ineligible for appointment as probationary assistant engineers.

30. Engineer students who fail to qualify in the final examination will be discharged unless specially allowed to serve another year. Failure at the end of the sixth year will in every case involve dismissal from the service.

31. The final examination of candidates in professional subjects and knowledge of engine-room duties will be held by the officers of the Dockyard Reserve in time for certificates to be forwarded to the Admiralty by the 9th June. Certificates of proficiency in practical workmanship, from the Chief Engineer of the dockyard, should also be forwarded by the same date.

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

Students failing to obtain these certificates are liable to dismissal, but they may be allowed to serve such further period, not exceeding one year, as may be determined upon, and again submit themselves for examination.

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