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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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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 1909.

The form of application sent herewith does not apply to either the Home or the Colonial Service.

Intending candidates for either or both of those services should write about Easter next to the Secretary, Civil Service Commission, London W., for the prescribed forms of application.

Civil Service Commission, August, 1908.

CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.
OPEN COMPETITION OF 1909.—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, 1909.

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 1st July.

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 2nd of August, 1909.

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, 1909; 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, 1909, I request that a prescribed form of application may be forwarded to me when ready for issue.

(Signature.)

*If you have never been examined, insert 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.

If an open competitive examination for Eastern cadetships should be appointed to be held in August, 1909, 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, 1909, produce a certificate of age and nationality issued under Notification of the Government of India, No. 2252, dated 21st August, 1888, as amended by Notification No. 404, dated 19th May, 1898, and signed, should he be a resident in British India, by the Secretary to Government of the province, or the Commissioner of the division within which his family resides, or, should be reside in a Native State, by the highest political officer accredited to the State in which his family resides. No other certificates will be accepted for this competition.

To be filled up by the candidate himself, and returned with the Form of Application.

CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA.
OPEN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION COMMENCING 2ND AUGUST, 1909.

This form must be received at the office of the Civil Service Commission on or before the 1st July, 1909.

Place your initials against the subjects which you select, and sign your name in the place indicated on the back of this form.

[Extract from clause 4 of the regulations.]

“ . . . Candidates are at liberty to name any of these subjects, provided that the maximum number of marks that can be obtained from the subjects chosen is limited to 6,000. If this maximum is exceeded by a candidate’s selection he will be required to indicate one of his subjects the marks for which should in his case be reduced so as to bring his maximum marks within the prescribed limit. The marks so reduced will be subject to the correspondingly reduced deduction under clause 6.”

Maximum Marks.

English composition . . . . 500
Sanskrit . . . . 600
Arabic . . . . 600
Greek, viz.,—
Translation . . . . 300
Composition . . . . 300
Literature . . . . 300
Latin, viz.,—
Translation . . . . 300
Composition . . . . 300
Literature . . . . 300
English . . . . 600
† Italian . . . . 600
† French . . . . 600
† German . . . . 600
Lower mathematics . . . . 1,200
Higher mathematics . . . . 1,200
Natural science, viz.,—
† Chemistry . . . . 600
† Physics . . . . 600
† Geology . . . . 600
† Botany . . . . 600
† Zoology . . . . 600
† Animal physiology . . . . 600
Geography . . . . 600
Greek history . . . . 500
Roman history . . . . 500
English history: Period I . . . . 400
English history: Period II . . . . 400
General modern history: Period . . . . 500