Jan. 25.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 165

Revised Regulations for the Entry of Engineer Students in the British Navy, and for Students in Naval Construction.

Defence Office,
Wellington, 18th January, 1900.

THE under-mentioned revised regulations, which have been received from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, for the entry of engineer students in Her Majesty’s navy, and for students in naval construction, are published for general information. The regulations published in New Zealand Gazette No. 46, of the 1st June, 1899, page 1058, are therefore cancelled.

T. THOMPSON.

Admiralty, 1st October, 1899.

REGULATIONS FOR THE ENTRY OF ENGINEER STUDENTS IN HER MAJESTY’S NAVY, AND FOR STUDENTS IN NAVAL CONSTRUCTION.

[The engineer students to be trained for service afloat as engineer officers. The students in naval construction to be trained with a view to their joining the Royal Corps of Naval Constructors.]

1. APPOINTMENTS to engineer studentships will be made by open competition, with the under-mentioned exceptions:—
   Three engineer studentships given annually to sons of gentlemen in the colonies on the recommendation of the Secretary of State for the Colonies.*
   Service candidates, the number of which will not exceed one-fifth of the total number of engineer students to be entered, who will be selected by the Board of Admiralty from sons of officers of the navy, army, or Royal Marines who have been killed in action or who have been lost at sea on active service, or killed on duty, or who have died of wounds received in action or injuries received on duty within six months from the date of such action or injury, or sons of officers of the navy or Royal Marines who have performed long and meritorious service.†

Colonial and service candidates will be entered on qualifying as specified in paragraph 7, but in all other respects they will be subject to these regulations.

Candidates must be of pure European descent, and the sons either of natural-born British subjects, or of parents naturalised in the United Kingdom.

If any doubt arises upon this question, the burden of clear proof that he is qualified will rest upon the candidate himself.

The educational examination of all candidates will be conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners. A fee of £1 will be required from each candidate.

2. The list of candidates for the appointments by open competition will be kept at the office of the Civil Service Commissioners. All applications for the forms to be filled up by persons who wish to compete must be sent to the Secretary, Civil Service Commission, London, S.W., on or after the 1st December in each year, and care must be taken that the forms when filled up reach the Civil Service Commissioners on or before the 15th February following, as no notice will be taken of forms received after that date. The list of nominated candidates will be kept at the Admiralty.

3. Candidates must be not less than fourteen and a half and not more than sixteen and a half years of age on the 1st of May following the examination.

Evidence of age and character will not be required before the examination, but candidates successful in it will not be eligible for appointment unless they satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners on these points.

4. Every candidate entered 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. He will be required to pass a medical examination according to the prescribed regulations, and must have been found physically fit for the navy.‡

The medical examination of the successful candidates will be held as soon as possible after the result of the educational examination is known.

Candidates will be medically examined at the Admiralty, in London, or at a naval port or establishment, or one of Her Majesty’s ships, which will be selected by the Admiralty as near as possible to their place of residence. All candidates who at the time of their medical examination cannot produce certificates to the satisfaction of the examining officers that they have been revaccinated, must be revaccinated before they can be considered eligible for entry.

5. The educational examination will be held in London, Portsmouth, Devonport, Edinburgh, and Dublin; it will take place in the month of March of each year. The exact date may be ascertained by application to the Secretary, Civil Service Commission, on or after the 1st December in each year. The examination of colonial candidates in the colonies will be conducted under the superintendence of the Commander-in-Chief of the naval station, but the marks will be assigned by the Civil Service Commissioners, to whom the worked papers will be sent as soon as possible.

6. Candidates will be examined in the following subjects.*
   They will be expected to take up all the subjects in Class I., and may also take up drawing and one other subject in Class II.

In order to qualify for entry they must obtain such an aggregate of marks in Class I. as may satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners.

CLASS I.

Mathematics—
Arithmetic: Including vulgar and decimal fractions, rule of three, practice, interest, mensuration .. .. .. .. 400
Algebra: Definitions and elementary processes, factors, fractions, highest common divisor and lowest common multiple, indices, equations up to easy quadratics of two unknowns, and problems arising from them .. .. .. 400
Geometry: Euclid, Books I., II., III., with easy deductions .. .. .. .. 400
— 1,200

English—
Handwriting, dictation, and composition, to include the writing of a letter on some ordinary subject, and the reproduction of a passage read to the candidates .. .. .. .. 400

Geography—
The elements of physical and political geography, with special reference to the geography of the British Empire .. .. .. .. 200

English History—
The examination in this subject will cover the history of England from the date of the Norman Conquest to present times; but about two-thirds of the marks assigned to the whole subject will be allotted to questions relating to the period subsequent to the accession of Queen Elizabeth .. .. .. .. 200
— 400

French—
Translation from French into English, and from English into French prose; grammatical questions, dictation, and conversation .. .. 400

Natural Science—
Mechanics, with either (a) physics or (b) chemistry .. .. .. .. 600
Mechanics: Definition and measure of length, time, velocity, acceleration, force, couple, composition of two forces acting at a point, the equilibrium of a body capable of turning about an axis; centre of mass; definition and illustration of work and energy, and simple examples of the conservation of energy.
Physics: The characteristics of matter in its various states of solid, liquid, vapour, gas; the methods of determining mass and density, the laws of Boyle and Charles; the effects of heat on bodies, the production of heat; the methods of transference of heat; the measurement of heat and of temperature.
Chemistry: The elements of inorganic chemistry, including the more obvious physical and chemical properties of common minerals, metals, acids, and other substances, oxidation and reduction.

Total.. .. .. .. 3,000

CLASS II.

Drawing—
(a.) Freehand and simple rectangular model or
(b) geometrical .. .. .. .. 200

One of the following subjects:—

• Reprints of some of the papers which have been set at previous examinations, together with tables of the marks assigned, may be purchased, either directly or through any bookseller, from the following agents: Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode, East Harding Street, Fetter Lane, London, E.C.; Messrs. John Menzies and Co., 12, Hanover Street, Edinburgh, and 90, West Nile Street, Glasgow; and Messrs. Hodges, Figgis, and Co., 104, Grafton Street, Dublin. Price, 6d.

• The names of the colonial candidates must be received at the Admiralty from the Colonial Office on or before the 1st January in each year.

† Applications for nominations must be made so as to arrive at the Admiralty before the 1st January in each year, and should be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty if the candidate is the son of an officer of the navy or marines; to the Military Secretary, Horse Guards, if the candidate is a son of an officer of the army; and to the Military Secretary, India Office, if the candidate is the son of an officer of the Indian army.

‡ See also paragraph 50.