New Zealand Gazette – 1924 – No. 64

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 64

Regulation 71 and its amendments are hereby revoked, and the following regulation substituted therefor :—

“EXAMINATIONS FOR APPOINTMENT AND PROMOTION.

“71. Subject to the provision of section 14 of the said Act, no person shall be appointed to the Engineering Division—

“(1.) As an Engineering Cadet, unless he is not more than twenty-five years of age and has passed the Engineering Preliminary Examination of the University of New Zealand, which must include a pass in physical science, with electricity and magnetism as a selected subject therein.

“(2.) As a Technical Clerk, unless he is not more than twenty-five years of age and has passed in—

“(a.) The Engineering Preliminary Examination of the University of New Zealand as for Engineering Cadets :

“(b.) The Controlling Officers’ Telegraph Technical Examination or City and Guilds of London Institute Final Examination in Telegraphy, first- or second-class certificate :

“(c.) The Controlling Officers’ Telephone Technical Examination or City and Guilds of London Institute Final Examination in Telephony, first- or second-class certificate :

“(d.) Morse operating, twenty words per minute.

“An officer may be appointed to the position of Technical Clerk before he has passed in (b), (c), and (d), provided that such officer holds the degree of B.Sc., but any such officer shall be required to pass in (b), (c), and (d) before he is eligible for promotion to the position of Assistant Telegraph Engineer.

“(3.) As an Assistant Telegraph Engineer, until he has passed as a Technical Clerk in (a), (b), (c), and (d) and has passed also in either (e), (f), and (g), or in (h) below :—

“(e.) Properties of telegraph and telephone materials ; telegraph and telephone apparatus ; testing of materials and apparatus :

“(f.) Telegraph and telephone engineering as applied to overhead, underground, and submarine plant :

“(g.) Electric light and power—direct current ; gas and oil engines :

“(h.) The degree of B.Sc. of the University of New Zealand by passing in the following subjects :—

“(i.) Pure mathematics (pass stage) ;

“(ii.) Applied mathematics (pass stage) ;

“(iii.) Physics (pass stage) ;

“(iv.) Chemistry (pass stage) ;

“(v.) Physics (advanced) ; and

“(vi.) Mathematics (advanced) : or

“(vii.) Physical technology and laboratory arts.

[Officers who have already entered upon their course for the degree of B.Sc. should notify the Secretary before the 31st December, 1924, of the subjects already chosen, and he may then approve of their substitution for the subjects specified above.

Officers who have already obtained the degree of B.Sc. shall be given the option of having it accredited as the equivalent of either the Assistant Engineers’ Examination 71 (3), (e), (f), and (g) or the Telegraph Engineers’ Examinations 71 (4) (j), (k), and (l), provided they notify the Secretary of their wishes in this direction not later than the 31st December, 1924.]

“(4.) As a Telegraph Engineer, until he has qualified as an Assistant Engineer, and has passed in (j), (k), and (l) below :—

“(j.) Advanced telegraph engineering :

“(k.) Advanced telephone engineering :

“(l.) Advanced electrical engineering.



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