1368

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 38

5. Any person producing such a certificate of professorship shall be
   deemed to have passed the examination herein termed the "Junior
   examination."

6. Any person otherwise qualified who is or has been attending
   any reputable private school shall be eligible for appointment to the
   Clerical Division, upon passing, to the satisfaction of the Secretary,
   or of some person appointed by him in that behalf, that the appli-
   cant has passed an examination equivalent in all material respects
   to that required for a certificate of proficiency in a public school under
   the control of an Education Board. In all other respects applicants
   shall conform to the general regulations for the time being in force
   relative to persons seeking admission to the Clerical Division.

7. Save in the case of persons skilled in caligraphy, telegraphy,
   or the like, and with the exceptions specified in clause 14
   hereof, every person entering the Clerical Division shall enter
   as a cadet, and shall be of the full age of fifteen years and not
   more than eighteen, and shall be subject to the probation herein
   directed, and shall be conditionally appointed at the minimum salary
   allotted to cadets. Experts, certificated teachers, or gentlemen of art,
   literature, science, or art, who have proved their qualifications to the
   satisfaction of the Minister, may enter at a higher age than eighteen
   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 satisfactory 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 exami-
nation 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 of 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 by their own request, or (in case they be) applications
   must be renewed (but without re-production of certificates) at the
   beginning of each calendar year, or if so requested.

10. Appointments of cadets to the Clerical Division shall be made
    only from the persons whose names are so registered, or from the
    current Civil Service Junior Examination list.

11. No person shall be eligible for appointment to the Depart-
    ment, if, when the question of his eligibility arises, three 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 Go-
    vernor may make such appointment absolute; and if the probation
    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.

14. Females are employed under the general conditions applying
    to the employment of males, with the following exceptions :—

(a.) The certificates prescribed in clauses 4 and 5 hereof shall be
produced, with the exception that for employment as a
Matron, Supervisor, or Governesses, or as a telegraph
exchange, a certificate of competency in a public school
may be accepted in lieu of a certificate of proficiency.