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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 7

The pay of the probationary assistant constructors until the
completion of their training at the Royal Naval College will
be the same as that of the probationary assistant engineers
and assistant engineers of the same service.

41. Such probationary assistant constructors only as obtain
    first- or second-class professional certificates on their final
    examination at the Royal Naval College will be admitted to
    the corps of naval constructors, their first appointments
    being as assistant constructors, third class.

42. When appointed assistant constructors, third class, on
    leaving the College they will cease to be under naval dis-
    cipline, except that they will have to proceed to sea for a
    term if so required.

43. Those who obtain third-class certificates will not be
    admitted to the corps, but will be eligible to receive appoint-
    ments as draughtsmen in the dockyards.

44. Every student entering the Royal Corps of Naval Con-
    structors will be liable to serve at any foreign naval establish-
    ment the Admiralty may direct.

45. The period of service in the third class for all assistant
    constructors to be four years. If favourably reported on at
    the end of this period as to character, ability, and industry,
    each officer will be eligible for promotion to the second class.
    Promotions from the second class to the first class of assistant
    constructors will be by selection. Those officers who have
    taken first-class certificates on their final examination at the
    Royal Naval College will be eligible for promotion to first
    class if favourably reported on after five years’ service,
    reckoned from the date of leaving the College, and those who
    have obtained second-class certificates to be similarly eligible
    after seven years’ service.

46. The assistant engineers who pass the second and third
    sessions at the Royal Naval College will be attached during
    the vacations between the 30th June and 1st October to the
    Dockyard Reserves, where they will be employed in sketching
    machinery, attending trials of engines, and gaining such
    professional information as will be most useful to them in
    connection with designs of machinery. The assistant con-
    structors will be attached to the dockyards during the vaca-
    tions, and will be employed on duties appertaining to their
    position.

47. Students on entry are to be provided with the follow-
    ing articles of uniform, according to the patterns laid down
    in the Uniform Regulations, 1891: One blue-cloth uniform
    undress coat, one blue-cloth uniform jacket, two blue-cloth
    uniform trousers, two blue-cloth uniform waistcoats, one
    uniform great-coat, two uniform caps; two working-suits of
    blue serge, each consisting of one undress coat, waistcoat,
    and trousers; one waterproof coat and cape.

At the commencement of the fourth year students are to
be further provided with a uniform frock-coat, and mess
waistcoat.

Frock-coat, undress coat, and jacket: The same as for
clerks, but with one row of ¼in. purple cloth round each cuff
instead of white cloth.

Students in naval construction to wear silver-grey cloth
round each cuff instead of purple cloth.

Estimated cost of the above uniform, to last three years
with care, not more than £20.

A senior engineer student in his fourth or fifth year of
service, on requiring a new uniform jacket, may procure a
double-breasted one, similar in shape to that worn by a
commissioned officer.

Patterns of the working-suit and of the sleeves of the un-
dress coat and jacket are kept and can be seen at the
Admiralty; Whitehall, and at the Training College at
Keyham, Devonport.

48. Each engineer student on joining the Training College
    must be provided with the following outfit, the estimated
    cost of which is about £15: Two white-flannel shirts, two
    white-flannel trousers, six white shirts, six coloured shirts,
    twelve collars, three nightshirts, six pairs merino socks, four
    pairs cotton or merino drawers, four merino vests, two neck-
    ties, two pairs braces, six white handkerchiefs, six coloured
    handkerchiefs, six towels, one clothes-brush, one sponge,
    one leather bag, one clothes-bag, one brush and comb, one
    tooth- and one nail-brush, three pairs boots, one pair slippers,
    two pairs gloves, two pairs gymnastic shoes.

The probable annual expense attending renewals of uni-
form and other clothes, washing, subscription to recreation
fund, &c., is estimated to be about £25.

49. Students will be required to supply their own books,
    stationery, and drawing materials, and a list of books will be
    furnished to each on appointment.

50. With a view to prevent parents and guardians from
    incurring the inconvenience and expense of preparing candi-
    dates for entry as engineer students in Her Majesty’s navy
    who may be physically unfit for the service, it is suggested
    that the candidates be submitted to examination by the
    medical adviser of the family, or any other registered medical
    practitioner, to whom the following points may be submitted
    as those upon which they will be physically examined by
    naval medical officers. It is to be understood that this
    private examination is merely suggested as a guide to parents
    and guardians, and 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 regular official physical exami-
    nation:—

A weak constitution, arising from imperfect development
or weakness of the physical powers of the body, either here-
ditary or from chronic disease, wounds, or injuries:

Chronic eruptions on the skin or scalp:

Malformation of the head, with a dry, harsh, divergent
state of the hair of the scalp, fracture or depression of the
bones of the skull, disordered intellect, imbecility, epilepsy,
paralysis, or impediment of speech:

Blindness or defective vision, as tested by Snellen’s test
types, in one or both eyes, fistula lachrymalis, and ptosis:

Impaired hearing, or discharge from one or both ears,
disease or thickening of the lining membrane of the external
tear:

Disease of the bones of the nose or of its cartilages, and
polypus:

Disease of the throat, palate, or tonsils; unsound teeth,
offensive breath from constitutional causes, unhealthy gums,
scrofulous diseases of the glands of the throat or neck, ex-
ternal cicatrices from scrofulous sores:

Functional or organic disease of the heart or blood-vessels,
deformity or contraction of the chest, flattening of the sub-
clavicular regions, phthisis, hæmoptysis, bronchitis, dyspnoea,
aphonia, chronic cough, or other symptoms of tubercular
exudation into the pulmonary tissues:

Swelling or distention of the abdomen; undue obesity;
disease or enlargement of the liver, spleen, or kidneys;
rupture, weakness, or distention of the abdominal rings;
vesical weakness, or incontinence:

The existence of any congenital defect, or of varicocele:

Any disease of or pertaining to the alimentary canal:

Paralysis, weakness, impaired motion, or contraction of
the upper or lower extremities, from whatever cause;
aneurism, a varicose state of the veins, especially of the
leg; bunions, distortion, malformation of the feet, or mal-
position of the fingers or toes:

Distortion of the spine, of the bones of the chest, or pelvis,
from injury or constitutional defect.

51. The foregoing regulations will be generally followed,
    but my Lords will modify them from time to time as may be
    considered desirable.

By command of their Lordships.

EVAN MACGREGOR.

NOTE.—Appended to these regulations is a copy of the
form of bond for students in naval construction, referred
to in paragraph 25, and information as to the pay, &c., of
engineer officers of the Royal navy and officers of the Royal
Corps of Naval Constructors.

FORM OF BOND FOR STUDENTS IN NAVAL CONSTRUCTION
ENTERED FROM ENGINEER STUDENTS.

Know all men by these presents that we, , a student
in naval construction at Her Majesty’s dockyard at ,
in the County of , and , of , in the County
of , are held and firmly bound to our Sovereign Lady
the Queen, her heirs and successors, in the sum of £500, for
which payment to be duly made we, the said and
, do hereby bind ourselves and each of us, and our
and each of our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly
and severally by these presents. Sealed with our seals, and
dated this day of , 18 .

Whereas the above-bounden was appointed by the
Admiralty an engineer student on the day of ,
18 , and the said has now been appointed a student
in naval construction for the purpose of learning and prac-
tising the art or occupation of naval construction for a term
of three years from the day of , 18 :

Now, the condition of the above-written obligation is such
that if the said shall at the expiration of the said
term of three years be qualified by passing the necessary
examination to enter the Royal Naval College at Greenwich
as a probationary assistant constructor, and shall enter the
said College accordingly, and shall at the end of each session
at the said College obtain satisfactory reports on his charac-
ter, qualifications, &c. (unless the failure to obtain such
satisfactory reports as aforesaid be due to sickness), and
shall during his training at the said College qualify himself
(by obtaining all necessary certificates as to good conduct
and efficiency) to enter into Her Majesty’s service on the
expiration of his training, and shall thereupon (if required)
enter Her Majesty’s service accordingly and continue in that
service for seven years from the date of his entry therein,
with good character and qualifications, then the above-
writen obligation shall be void, otherwise the same shall
continue in full force and effect.

Signed, sealed, and delivered by all the
parties (being first duly stamped),
in the presence of