1948
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 49

Zealand Candidates,” as amended with the assent of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

GEO. FOWLDS,
Minister of Education.

REGULATIONS FOR ENTRY OF NAVAL CADETS.

1. ALL Naval Cadets enter the Service under identical conditions, and are trained together until they pass for the rank of lieutenant.

2. After passing for the rank of lieutenant they may be required to serve either as general service officers or in one of the special branches, undertaking either engineering, gunnery, torpedo, navigation, or marine duty.

3. As far as possible officers selected for special service will be allowed to choose the branch in which they will qualify, subject to the proviso that all branches are satisfactorily filled.

Parents or guardians of candidates for appointment as Naval Cadets must undertake for them that they are prepared to serve in any branch if required.

4. Parents or guardians are required to declare in writing their intention that the candidate, if he obtains a cadetship, shall adopt the Navy as his profession in life; and it is subject to this undertaking that candidates are selected for cadetships. Every cadet who enters the Royal Naval College must therefore be prepared to continue his training so long as the Admiralty are satisfied with his progress, and parents are not at liberty to withdraw their sons at will.

On the entry of a cadet, parents or guardians will be required to undertake that, in the event of his withdrawing or being withdrawn from the college, or from the Navy before being confirmed as a sub-lieutenant, they will pay to the Admiralty, if demanded, the sum of £25 per term in respect of each term passed by him at the R.N. Colleges, Osborne and Dartmouth, from the date of his entry to the date of his withdrawal, as a contribution towards the balance of the cost of his training and maintenance not covered by the annual payment of £75 mentioned in paragraph 12.

This undertaking does not apply to cadets withdrawn at the request of the Admiralty under paragraphs 15–18.

5. Candidates must be of pure European descent, and the sons either of natural-born or of naturalized British subjects. In doubtful cases the burden of clear proof will rest upon the parents or guardians of candidates.

6. Every candidate (except candidates who are being educated in the colonies, and have received special colonial recommendations under paragraph 7) will be required to present himself before a committee, which will interview each applicant separately.*

Appointments to Naval Cadetships are made by the First Lord from among candidates recommended by the committee, and all such appointments are subject to the candidate passing a qualifying literary examination in educational subjects (vide paragraph 11) and a medical examination (vide paragraph 10).

The fact, however, of a candidate being invited to appear before this committee is not to be understood as in any degree implying that he will necessarily be chosen to attend the qualifying examination.

The Interviewing Committee will sit shortly before the date fixed for each qualifying literary examination.

7. Members of the Board of Admiralty (other than the First Lord) have the privilege of specially recommending one candidate each time.

A flag officer or commodore (first class) appointed to the chief command of a naval station, or to a separate command, and a captain, R.N., on receiving his first appointment to the command of a ship in commission with full crew, is allowed to recommend specially one candidate, provided the privilege is exercised within six months of appointment, and that the candidate recommended is not less than twelve years of age at the time.

The Governments of certain colonies are allowed to recommend specially (through the Secretary of State for the Colonies) a certain number of candidates annually from among boys belonging to families resident in the colonies.

All the specially recommended candidates (with the exception of colonial candidates actually residing out of the United Kingdom) must be also recommended by the Interviewing Committee, and all such candidates, without exception, must pass the qualifying educational examination.

8. The qualifying examinations are held in March, July, and December, and the appointments date from the 15th May, 15th September, 15th January following respectively.

• Applications should be addressed to the Assistant Private Secretary to the First Lord, and should not be made until the candidate has reached twelve years of age. The applications must be received at the Admiralty—for the March examination, before 1st January; for the July examination, before 1st May; for the December examination, before 1st October. (See also special notice for New Zealand candidates as given below.)

9.* Candidates are eligible only for one interview and qualifying examination.

Candidates for examination in—

March must not be less than twelve years and eight months nor more than thirteen years of age on the following ... 15 May.

July ditto ditto ... 15 Sept.

Dec. ,, ,, ... 15 Jan.

10. Every candidate must be in good health, and free from any physical defect of body, impediment of speech, defect of sight or hearing, and also from any predisposition to constitutional or hereditary disease or weakness of any kind, and be in all respects well developed and active in proportion to his age. Before undergoing the qualifying examination he is required to pass the medical examination according to the prescribed regulations, and must be found physically fit for the Navy.

It should be particularly noted that full normal vision—as determined by Snellen’s tests—is required. A memorandum is issued by the Admiralty which gives details of the physical requirements of candidates.

11.† The qualifying examination is in the following subjects:—

(1.) English (including writing from dictation, simple composition, and reproduction of the gist of a short passage twice read aloud to the candidates).

(2.) History and geography, with special reference to the British Empire.

(3.) Arithmetic and algebra (two-thirds of the questions in this paper will be on arithmetic. The use of algebraic symbols and processes will be allowed).

Arithmetic: The simple and compound rules, avoirdu pois weight, linear and square and cubic measures, the elementary mensuration of rectangular surfaces and volumes, measure of capacity (pints, quarts, gallons), the metric system (the metre, gramme, and litre, with their multiples and sub-multiples), money (including the relationship of the cent to the dollar and the centime to franc), reduction, simple proportion, factors, the addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and simplification of vulgar fractions, and non-recurring decimal fractions.

Algebra: The meaning of algebraical symbols, substitution of values, easy identities, factors, fractions, equations of the first degree, including simultaneous equations, verification of the solution of equations, problems leading to simple equations.

(4.) Geometry: The paper will consist of questions both on practical and on theoretical geometry.

All candidates must be provided with a ruler graduated in inches and tenths and also in centimetres and millimetres, a small set square, a protractor, pencil compasses, and a hard pencil.

Any proof of a proposition will be accepted which appears to the Examiner to form part of a systematic treatment of the subject.

Proofs of the validity of constructions will not as a rule be expected, but they may be asked for. Candidates will be expected to write descriptions of the constructions they give.

Practical Geometry: Bisection of angles and straight lines, construction of perpendiculars to straight lines, construction of triangles with three parts given, formation of such angles as 60°, 30°, 45°, 22½°, without the use of the protractor, construction of angles equal to a given angle, construction of squares, rectangles, and parallelograms, construction of parallels to a given straight line, division of straight lines into a number of equal parts.

Theoretical Geometry: Definitions of the principal terms used either in practical or in theoretical geometry within the limits of the syllabus. The substance of the theorems contained in Euclid, Book I, Propositions 4–6, 8, 13–16, 18, 19, 26–30, 32–34. Very simple deductions from these theorems. The order in which the theorems are stated is not imposed as the sequence of their treatment.

(5.) French or German, with an oral examination to which importance will be attached.

• Should any case occur where a selected candidate is prevented by illness from attending the qualifying examination, the Admiralty will consider whether special arrangements can be made for him to be examined by the Headmaster of the Royal Naval College, Osborne, at the beginning of the ensuing term.

† NOTE.—Copies of the papers set at one of the examinations held in each year are published by the Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board, and may be obtained from the following: Clarendon Press Depository, 116 High Street, Oxford; Henry Frowde, Amen Corner, London; Cambridge University Press, Warehouse, Fetter Lane, London; Deighton, Bell, and Co., Trinity Street, Cambridge.