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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 89

fied in Regulation 9, and who shall have satisfied the Civil Service Commissioners of their eligibility in respect of nationality, age, health, character, conduct during the period of probation, and ability to ride, shall be certified by the said Commissioners to be entitled to be appointed to the Civil Service of India, provided they shall comply with the regulations in force at the time for that service.

12. Persons desirous to be admitted as candidates must apply on forms, which may be obtained from "The Secretary to the Civil Service Commissioners, London," at any time after the 1st December in the year previous to that in which the examination is to be held. No person will be admitted to the examination from whom the Secretary to the Civil Service Commissioners has not received, on or before the 1st July (or, if that date should fall upon a Sunday or public holiday, then on or before the first day thereafter on which their office is open) in the year in which the examination is to be held, an application, in the handwriting of the candidate, on the prescribed form.

The Civil Service Commissioners are authorised by the Secretary of State for India in Council to make the following announcements:-

(1.) Selected candidates will be allotted to the various provinces upon a consideration of all the circumstances, including their own wishes; but the requirements of the public service will rank before every other consideration.

(2.) An allowance amounting to £150 will be given to any candidate who passes his probation at one of the universities or colleges which have been approved by the Secretary of State—viz., the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, Glasgow, Edinburgh, St. Andrew's, Aberdeen, and London (University College or King's College); Victoria University, Manchester.

This allowance will be paid to the selected candidate in four instalments on the following dates respectively:- December 24th after his selection, March 25th, June 24th, and the date of his signing his covenant on being finally appointed to the Service.

With the final instalment an allowance on account of passage to India will be paid to each newly appointed civilian to the amount of £37 10s., for passage to Calcutta, Madras, or Bombay, and £43 for passage to Rangoon, the officer then making his own arrangements for his passage.

The payment of each of the first three instalments will be conditional on the receipt, by the Secretary of State, through the Civil Service Commissioners, of a certificate that the candidate has fulfilled up to date the requirements of the authorities, and shows satisfactory conduct at the authorised university or college; the fourth and final instalment will be paid as soon as the selected candidate has signed his covenant, and for its payment no certificate from the college authorities will be required.

The whole probation must ordinarily be passed at the same institution. Migration will not be permitted except for special reasons approved by the Secretary of State.

(3.) Each candidate will be required before receiving the first instalment of his allowance to execute an agreement binding himself to refund all moneys he may have received from the Secretary of State for India in the event of-

(1) his failure to pass the final examination within the time prescribed by the regulations, and to satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners of his fitness for admission to the Civil Service of India; or

(2) his subsequent failure to execute the usual covenant, and to proceed to India as and when he shall be directed by the Secretary of State for India.

(4.) All candidates obtaining certificates will be also required to enter into covenants by which, amongst other things, they will bind themselves to make such payments as under the rules and regulations for the time being in force they may be required to make towards their own pensions or for the pensions of their families. The stamps payable on these covenants amount to £1.

(5.) The seniority in the Civil Service of India of the candidates obtaining certificates will be determined according to the order in which they stand on the list resulting from the combined marks of the open competitive and final examinations.

(6.) Candidates obtaining certificates will be required to report their arrival in India within such period after the grant of their certificates of qualification as the Secretary of State may in each case direct.

(7.) Candidates who fail to satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners at the final examination held in any year will be definitely rejected, and will not be allowed to present themselves for re-examination, unless it shall appear to the Secretary of State in Council, after reference to the Civil Service Commissioners, that such failure is due to circumstances wholly exceptional and beyond the control of the candidate.

CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.

OPEN COMPETITION OF 1908.-FORM TO BE FILLED UP BY CANDIDATES FOR EXAMINATION.

. The order for admission to the examination will not be issued unless this form, filled up by the candidate himself, is received by the Secretary of the Civil Service Commission on or before the 1st July, 1908.

This application form relates only to the competition for the Civil Service of India, and does not entitle a candidate to compete also for the Home or Colonial Civil Service. Intending candidates for either or both of these services must obtain the proper form or forms of application and forward them so as to reach the Secretary, Civil Service Commission, on or before July 1st.

SIR,-I beg to inform you that I wish to be a candidate at the examination for the Civil Service of India, which is appointed to commence in London on the 1st of August, 1908.

I am a natural-born subject of His Majesty. [Candidates not born within the British dominions should state this fact in a separate letter.]

I hereby declare that I was born on the day of ,18 , and that therefore I shall have attained the age of twenty-two years and shall not have attained the age of twenty-four years on the 1st of August, 1908; I also declare that I have no disease, constitutional affection, or bodily infirmity unfitting me, or likely to unfit me, for the Civil Service of India; and that I am of good moral character, and otherwise eligible under the regulations; and I undertake that, if I am successful, I will conform, during my period of probation, to such rules respecting the conduct of public servants as have been laid down, or may hereafter be laid down, by the Secretary of State for India in Council.

I send herewith a certificate of age and nationality, issued in accordance with the rule respecting natives of India printed in paragraph 3 of rules attached. [Candidates who are not natives of India should strike out this paragraph.]

I beg to inform you that I was* examined before the Civil Service Commissioners in the month of† in the year 1 , as a candidate for the situation of

I am, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

(Name in full.)

Address to which it is desired that the order for examination should be sent:†

(Date.)

The Secretary, Civil Service Commission.

Certificates of age (except as mentioned above), health, and character should not be supplied until after the result of the examination is known.

N.B.-Attention is drawn to the annexed form, which must be filled up by every candidate.

If an open competitive examination for clerkships (Class I) in the Home Civil Service should be appointed to be held in August, 1908, I request that a prescribed form of application may be forwarded to me when ready for issue.

(Signature.)

If an open competitive examination for Eastern cadetships should be appointed to be held in August, 1908, I request that a prescribed form of application may be forwarded to me when ready for issue.

(Signature.)

EVIDENCE OF AGE TO BE REQUIRED FROM CANDIDATES FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.

1. Every candidate born in the United Kingdom should be prepared to produce, when required, a certificate from the Registrar-General of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, or from one of his provincial officers. This certificate may be obtained from the Registrar-General in London, Dublin, or Edinburgh, or from the Superintendent Registrar of the district in which the birth took place.

2. A candidate born of European parents in India should be prepared to produce, when required, a certificate of baptism from the district in which he was baptized. If this does not also mention the date of birth it should be accompanied by a statutory declaration by one of the candidate's parents, stating the date and place of birth. When such certificates are not in the possession of the candidates an extract from the registers kept at the India Office will probably be obtainable.

3. A candidate who is a native of India must, on or before the 1st July, 1908, produce a certificate of age

• If you have never been examined, insert here the word "never.

• If you have been examined, give the date, &c., of the last occasion.
  † If a London address, state the postal district; if a country address, state the post-town.