IV. Only those candidates who satisfy the above physical
requirements will be permitted to proceed to the medical
examination.
Both the physical and medical examination will be held
on the same day and at the same place.
A certificate, signed by the Inspector of Gymnasia, setting
forth the physical equivalents of the candidates will be
furnished for the information of the Medical Board.
V. The medical examination will be conducted by a
Board of Medical Officers. The President will be detailed
by the Director-General, Army Medical Service; the Assistant
Professor of Clinical and Military Surgery, Army
Medical School, Netley, the Surgeon, Royal Military
Academy, Woolwich, and the Surgeon, Royal Military
College, Sandhurst, may be members of the Board ex officio.
The other members will be composed of officers of a rank not
lower than major, Royal Army Medical Corps, and in their
selection due regard should be given to their possession of
special qualifications for the duty.
VI. The attention of the Medical Board will be directed
to:
(a.) Eyesight—
The regulations regarding the examination of eyesight
are as follows:—

1. If a candidate can read D=6 at 6 metres (20 English
   feet), and D = 0·6 at any distance selected by himself, with
   each eye without glasses, he will be considered fit.
2. If a candidate can only read D = 24 at 6 metres (20
   English feet) with each eye without glasses, his visual deficiency being due to faulty refraction, which can be corrected
   by glasses which enable him to read D = 6 at 6 metres (20
   English feet) with one eye, and D = 12 at the same distance
   with the other eye, and can also read D = 0·8 with each eye
   without glasses, at any distance selected by himself, he will
   be considered fit.
3. If a candidate cannot read D = 24 at 6 metres (20
   English feet) with each eye without glasses, notwithstanding
   he can read D = 0·6, he will be considered unfit.
   Normal vision of one eye may be sufficient to allow a
   higher defect in the other, to the extent of one-sixth, if the
   defect is simple error in refraction remedied by glasses.
   The candidate must be able to read the tests without
   hesitation in ordinary daylight.
   (N.B.—Snellen's test-types will be used for determining
   the acuteness of vision.)
   Squint, inability to distinguish the principal colours, or
   any morbid conditions subject to the risk of aggravation or
   recurrence, in either eye, will cause the rejection of a candidate.
   The following additional points will then be observed:—
   (b.) That his hearing is good.
   (c.) That his speech is without impediment.
   (d.) That his teeth are in good order. Loss or decay of
   ten teeth will be considered a disqualification.
   Decayed teeth, if well filled, will be considered
   as sound.
   (e.) That his chest is well formed, and that his lungs
   and heart are sound.
   (f.) That he is not ruptured.
   (g.) That he does not suffer from hydrocele, varicocele,
   varicose veins in a severe degree, or other disease
   likely to cause inefficiency. A slight defect, if
   successfully cured by operation, is not a dis-
   qualification.
   (h.) That his limbs are well formed and developed.
   (i.) That there is free and perfect motion of all the
   joints.
   (j.) That his feet and toes are well formed.
   (k.) That he does not suffer from any inveterate skin-
   disease.
   (l.) That he has no congenital malformation or defect.
   (m.) That he does not bear traces of previous acute or
   chronic disease pointing to an impaired constitution.
   The Board should further state—
   (n.) Whether he is, in their opinion, of pure European
   descent.
   [D. 1901/4866

Port of Lyttelton.—Defining Line beyond which Ships shall
not pass until Pratique is granted.
Department of Public Health,
Wellington, 15th October, 1901.
In accordance with section 116 of “The Public Health
Act, 1900,” I hereby give notice that, until pratique is
granted by the Health Officer, ships from beyond sea
arriving at the Port of Lyttelton shall not be brought
higher up the port than an imaginary line drawn from
Sticking Point on the north-west side of the port to Ripa
Island on the south-east side.
J. G. WARD,
Minister of Public Health.
Notice to Mariners No. 69 of 1901.
Marine Department,
Wellington, 1st November, 1901.
THE following Notice to Mariners, received from the
Collector of Customs, Suva, Fiji, is published for
general information.
WM. HALL-JONES.
FIJI ISLANDS.—SUVA HARBOUR.—PILE LIGHT AT ENTRANCE.
Notice is hereby given that a pile lighthouse has been
erected at the entrance of Suva Harbour, and will, from
the 1st November next, replace the light-vessel notice of
which was published in Royal Gazette No. 2, dated the
15th January, 1886, to indicate the turning-point for vessels
proceeding to an anchorage off the town. The house is
painted white and the piles black. It is situated on the
extreme north end of the eastern reef, in 15 ft. of water;
approximate latitude, 18° 8' 12" south ; longitude, 178° 24' 35"
east. From this lighthouse will be exhibited two white
lights at a vertical distance apart of 7 ft., the lower light
being 23 ft. above high-water mark.
Wm. SUTHERLAND,
Suva, 1st October, 1901. Acting Receiver-General.
Altering Day of Meeting of the Auckland Land Board.
Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 31st October, 1901.
IT is hereby notified for public information that His
Excellency the Governor has, in pursuance of subsection (1) of section 48 of “The Land Act, 1892,” approved
of the meetings of the Auckland Land Board being held
on the fourth Friday in each month, at 10 o'clock a.m.,
instead of on the fourth Tuesday as at present.
T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.
Letters of Naturalisation issued.
Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 30th October, 1901.
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to issue
Letters of Naturalisation, under “The Aliens Act,
1880,” in favour of the under-mentioned persons:—
Name. Occupation. Residence.
Andreas Andersen .. Gardener .. Wanganui.
Johann Jurgen Henrich Bettjemann Miner .. Fairdown, Westport.
Vincenzo Bianchi .. Gum-digger Callaghan’s.
Alfred Boehnert .. Gum-digger Gumtown.
Johann Böttcher .. Settler .. Halcombe.
August Heinrich Johann Brackebush Masseur .. Rotorua.
Celim Buttress .. Farm Labourer .. Waipipi.
Joseph Czar .. Gum-digger Hohoura.
Israel Gelhor .. Confectioner Wellington.
Frank Gorinski .. Platelayer Balfour.
Ole Hansen .. Labourer .. Kelso.
Carl Johann Hasse .. Seaman Halcombe.
Thor Julius Kettlesen .. Bootmaker Mount Roskill.
Daniel Kutner .. Labourer Wellington.
George Mitchell .. Professor of Music Masterton.
Andrew John Norberg .. Gold-miner Wellington.
Neils Peter Peterson .. Coach-painter Stafford.
Johan Edward Wolff .. Wellington.
J. G. WARD.
Justice of the Peace resigned.
Department of Justice,
Wellington, 1st November, 1901.
His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by
GEORGE FRANCIS MORSE, Esq.,
of Fordell, of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace for
the Colony of New Zealand.
JAMES McGOWAN.