THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

of the Minister, may enter at a higher age than twenty years, and may
be appointed to such class as may be determined by the Minister.

8. Every person making application for admission to the Clerical
   Division shall transmit the following evidence as to his fitness and
   capacity :

(1.) A duly authenticated certificate or extract from some official
registry or other authentic evidence of his age ;

(2.) A certificate in duplicate, from some minister of religion,
public-school teacher, or Justice of the Peace, of the moral
character of the applicant ;

(3.) A certificate in duplicate from the proper authority to the
effect that such applicant has duly passed the junior examination hereinbefore mentioned ; and

(4.) A certificate from a medical practitioner setting forth, in the
form prescribed by the Minister, that the applicant is in good
health and free from any bodily infirmity.

9. The names of applicants shall be entered in a register kept by the
   Secretary at the General Post Office ; and such names shall be kept on
   the register until appointments have been made, or until such persons
   have attained the age of twenty years, or until the applicants have
   failed to renew their applications annually, or have had their names
   removed at their own request, as the case may be. Applications
   must be renewed (but without production of certificates) at the
   beginning of each calendar year, or they will lapse.

10. Appointments of cadets to the Clerical Division shall be made
    only from the persons whose names are so registered.

11. No person shall be eligible for appointment to the Department
    if, when the question of his eligibility arises, two or more persons
    belonging to his family are already officers of the Department. The
    expression “family” shall be held to include father, mother, and
    their children.

12. Every cadet receiving an appointment shall be conditionally
    appointed upon probation; and at the expiration of three months from
    the date of such appointment, if the Secretary or Superintendent shall
    certify as to his fitness and capacity, and recommend him in writing
    as a suitable person to become an officer of the Department, the Governor may make such appointment absolute ; and if the probationer
    shall not have complied with these regulations his appointment shall
    lapse.

13. The Governor may at any time during the period of probation
    dismiss any cadet from the Department for any reason which may be
    deemed sufficient.

Senior Examination.

14. No person, other than one of those specified in clause 39, shall
    be eligible for promotion in the Clerical Division to any class higher than
    the fifth class unless he has passed a further examination, to be called
    “the senior examination,” in the manner hereinafter mentioned.

15. The senior examination shall be the examination known as the
    “Civil Service Senior Examination” held under the provisions of
    “The Civil Service Reform Act, 1886,” and the times and places fixed
    for such examination from time to time, and the subjects prescribed
    for the same, shall be respectively deemed to be prescribed for the senior
    examination required by these regulations.

16. An officer shall be deemed to have passed the senior examination
    if he

(1.) Has passed the examination for the time being prescribed for
the matriculation of students in the New Zealand University ;

(2.) Has obtained a junior or a senior scholarship in the said
University ;

(3.) Has passed the Matriculation Examination or any other examination in any public university in the United Kingdom
or any of the Australian States which is at least equal to
that required to be passed on matriculation in the New
Zealand University, and as may be determined by regulations ;

(4.) Has obtained a degree in any such university or in the New
Zealand University.

17. A register of persons who have passed or are deemed to have
    passed such senior examination shall be kept by the Secretary, and their
    names shall be entered therein upon application by the persons who