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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 50

(f.) Candidates must pass in all the subjects prescribed, and may take these in any order, or as many as they may wish at any one time. In order to obtain a pass in these subjects, candidates shall have done such work during the year and obtained such marks and such reports from the Professor-in-Charge as shall, on the report of the Engineer-in-Chief and the Electrical Engineer, be deemed satisfactory by the Public Service Commissioner. Except in very exceptional circumstances a pass in the College Examination will be deemed indispensable. Failure to pass the course set will entail repayment (by instalments) of the whole money advanced, but, at the discretion of the Commissioner, the student may be allowed further time to pass, provided that the course is completed before he attains the age of thirty-seven years.

(g.) Term reports on attendance and progress at the classes will be obtained from the Professor-in-Charge, and if these, in the opinion of the Commissioner, show that the student is abusing the concession, or that he is not utilizing it to the best of his ability, then the Commissioner may cancel the balance of the leave granted, and require the student to refund the whole or any part of the Department’s outlay on his account.

(h.) The actual leave granted will be on half-pay, with a maximum of £100, but the Engineer will be required to work in the Department at his ordinary work and classified rate of pay during the vacations.

(i.) On his return to full duties after completion of his college course his classification may be reviewed by the Commissioner, who will make due allowance for his improved standing in the profession.

(j.) The Engineer will be required to continue his payments into the Superannuation Fund during his attendance at college.

Regulation 101 as amended on the 1st April, 1914, is further amended by deleting the word “applicant,” and substituting in lieu thereof the word “appellant.”

SPECIAL TRAVELLING AND OTHER ALLOWANCES.

111A. The following special travelling and other allowances shall be payable in the cases stated hereunder:—
To each sub-overseer, foreman storeman, or head chairman on an engineering or a survey party, and to each officer in the Post and Telegraph Department below Class G 7 who is employed in a similar capacity, for each day occupied in travelling from his headquarters to his work and back to headquarters from his work the sum of 7s. 6d.

To any other man whom it is necessary to employ in any centre and send to work in the country, the cost of transit to and back from his work; and, in addition, for each day occupied in so travelling to and back from his work, the sum of 6s., but no allowance shall be payable for the period during which he is employed on the work he is sent to perform unless under special circumstances approved by the Permanent Head.

In each case “day” shall mean a full period of twenty-four hours. For portions of a day the allowance shall be at the rate of 6d. per hour, but shall not in any case exceed the full day’s allowance specified above; but when a man is sent out from any centre and returns the same night the cost of transit only will be paid, unless he was unaware the previous night that he was to leave the next day, in which latter case actual and reasonable expenditure for meals will be refunded.

ADMISSION TO THE SERVICE.

Regulation No. 155 as remade on the 1st April, 1914, is hereby amended by adding the following sentence:—
“Should a pass in any other examination, scientific or otherwise, be accepted in lieu of the Public Service Entrance Examination or Public Service Senior Examination, as a qualification for admission to any special Department or Departments, such examination shall not be regarded as qualifying for transfer to any other Department.”