1370

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

No. 38

23. The names of applicants in the Non-clerical Division shall be entered in a register kept by the Secretary at the General Post Office, and such names shall be kept on the register and removed therefrom under the same conditions as and not other than those prescribed for registration and removal of names of applicants in the Clerical Division.

24. Appointments in the Non-clerical Division shall be made by the Governor on the recommendation of the Minister.

25. Officers in the Non-clerical Division shall be eligible for employment, on promotion, in the Clerical Division; but in any such case the provisions applicable in respect of examinations in such division, or the equivalent thereof, shall extend and apply to such officers.

Telegraph Message-boys.

26. Telegraph message-boys must be not less than thirteen and not more than sixteen years of age. They must have passed the Fifth Standard, as defined by regulations under “The Education Act, 1904,” and produce certificates in writing of sound bodily health and good moral character. An educational certificate from any reputable private school will be accepted upon proof to the satisfaction of the Secretary, or of some person appointed by him in that behalf, that the applicant has passed an examination equivalent in all material respects to that required for the said Fifth Standard. Preference will be given to boys who have obtained a certificate of competency in the Sixth Standard, and still further if the certificate be one of proficiency.

27. Message-boys shall be eligible for promotion to any other branch of the Non-clerical Division for which they may be qualified, and shall have the same claim as any other non-clerical officer to a cadetship in the Clerical Division, to be determined on the result of examinations. Any boy who may pass either the Senior or the Junior Civil Service Examination shall be given a prior claim to a cadetship.

28. Any message-boy who has been in receipt of the maximum pay of his position for two years, and who cannot qualify for promotion to another branch in the Non-clerical Division or to a cadetship, will be required to resign.

29. Every message-boy shall be entitled to a clothing-allowance of £5 after the completion of the first year’s service, if favourably reported upon by the head of his office. Application for the allowance must be made through the head of the local office.

GENERAL.

30. A record of all officers in the Department shall be kept by the Secretary, showing therein the divisions in which such officers are respectively included, in accordance with the terms of “The Post and Telegraph Classification and Regulation Act, 1890,” and its amendments. In such record the Secretary shall include the following particulars:—

(1.) With regard to the First Division and the Non-clerical Division, he shall state therein a general description of the several duties of the officers included in those divisions, their length of service, salaries, and such other particulars as may be deemed necessary;

(2.) With regard to the Clerical Division, he shall state therein with respect to the officers therein included, in addition to the information as aforesaid, the nature of the work severally performed by such persons;

(3.) From time to time he shall cause entries to be made in such record of deaths, dismissals, resignations, promotions, and reductions;

(4.) In the month of April in each and every year he shall publish, under the authority of the Minister, a list of officers then employed, and the particulars with regard to such persons recorded as aforesaid, which said list shall be called “The Post and Telegraph Departmental List,” and shall be prima facie evidence of the several particulars therein set forth. Every such list shall be laid before both Houses of the General Assembly within ten days after the commencement of the first session of such Assembly held next after the said month of April.

31. Where any officer whose name appears in any such list thinks that he has been placed in a class lower than that in which, from the nature of the services he performs, he ought to have been placed, he