2296
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 66

provisions of these regulations, appoint the officer so certified to the
vacant office.

(6.) Any officer so promoted shall receive the minimum salary of
the class to which he is promoted, except in the case of an officer who
may be transferred or promoted from the Sixth Class to the Fifth
Class, or to the class of Postmasters, fourth grade, or from the Non-
clerical Division, who at the time was in receipt of a higher salary
than the minimum salary of the class to which he has been trans-
ferred or promoted. Such officer shall continue to receive such first-
mentioned salary until he shall be entitled to a further increment.

(7.) Officers shall be placed at the bottom of the class to which
they are promoted. But if any officer in any of the grouped classes
is transferred to another class within the same group, his place in his
new class shall be next above that of the officer who entered the group
next after him. Officers transferred in the same financial year to any
grouped class shall retain the same relative positions as they had
before such transfer.

46. Cadets shall have been in receipt of the maximum salary for
    one year before they shall be entitled to be promoted to the Sixth
    Class. Such promotion shall be subject to a report from the head
    of his office certifying that the cadet’s conduct is satisfactory in all
    respects, that he has passed the required examinations, and has earned
    promotion.

47. Cadets or officers in the Sixth Class who may pass the Senior
    Examination (excluding the Matriculation Examination) shall be
    granted a double increment: Provided that the conduct of such
    officer has been satisfactory, and he is otherwise favourably reported
    upon for promotion.

48. Cadets passing a satisfactory examination in shorthand-
    writing at the rate of 100 words per minute shall be granted six
    months’ seniority.

49. Promotion or transfer from the Sixth Class to the Postmasters,
    fourth grade, may be made without regard to the minimum salary of
    the grade; and special consideration may be given any officer in the
    Sixth Class who may have broken down in health, or in operating,
    provided that his conduct has been satisfactory, and he is in other
    respects favourably reported upon as fitted to be placed in charge of
    a combined post and telegraph office.

50. Before being promoted out of the class of cadets all officers
    shall pass one or more of the following examinations as indicated:—

For Postal cadets: (1.) The sorting test, being the assortment of
five hundred letters, or articles resembling letters in shape and in the
mode of the addresses thereon inscribed, for their proper distribution
by means of the post throughout New Zealand. The assortment
shall be made in a maximum time of twenty minutes, and with a
maximum of mistakes of three per centum.

(2.) An examination in rules and regulations as contained in the
book of Rules and Regulations for the Guidance of Officers (General and
Postal), edition 1906 or any amendment thereof; in money-order,
postal-note, and Savings-Bank rules; in discipline; and in the Post
and Telegraph Guide of the current issue.

For Telegraph cadets: (1.) An examination in rules and regulations
as contained in the book of Rules and Regulations for the Guidance of
Officers (Telegraph Branch), edition 1904 or any amendment thereof,
and in the Post and Telegraph Guide of the current issue; in money-
order and Savings-Bank rules as applied to telegrams; in telegraph
accounts; and in discipline.

(2.) An examination in sending and receiving on the Morse telegraph
instrument at a minimum rate per minute of twenty-five words sent
and twenty-three words received, ten minutes each way, with a maxi-
um of one per centum of mistakes.

(3.) A technical examination in the simpler uses of electricity as
applied to telegraphy, and in the use and management of telegraphic
apparatus.

51. Officers in the Sixth Class will require to pass tests of
    efficiency before such officers may receive increments beyond
    (a) one hundred and fifty pounds, and (b) one hundred and eighty
    pounds. The scope of such tests shall be as follows:—

(1.) Before receiving salary beyond one hundred and fifty pounds
per annum, an examination (to be called the First Examination)
as under:—