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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

No. 85

Examination of Masters and Mates.- Wireless Signaller.

INSTRUCTIONS TO HOLDERS OF CERTIFICATES OF COMPETENCY,
AND TO INTENDING CANDIDATES FOR THEIR FIRST HOME-
TRADE CERTIFICATE OF COMPETENCY.

Marine Department,
Wellington, N.Z., 9th December, 1925.

1. On and after the l st January, 1926, every candidate for a
   home-trade certificate, on every occasion on which he presents
   himself for examination for his first certificate of competency,
   will be required to produce a certificate in the form of an
   "examiner's authority" issued by the Minister of Telegraphs
   to the effect that he has "passed examination for wireless
   signaller."

Provided, however, that if such candidate holds a valid cer-
tificate as wireless operator of any grade issued by the Minister
of Telegraphs or its equivalent, such certificate will be accepted
in lieu of an examiner's authority, and he will not be required
to submit himself for examination for wireless signaller.

The examiner's authority must be obtained by the candi-
date when seventeen and a half years of age or more, and the
examination for it must have been passed not more than one
year before the date of examination for a certificate of compe-
tency.

3. A candidate for examination who does not possess certi-
   ficate as wireless operator issued by the Minister of Telegraphs
   or its equivalent, should, some time before he wishes to sit
   for a certificate of competency, apply to a District Telegraph
   Engineer, who will inform him when and where the examina-
   tion for wireless signaller may be held.

4. The examination for wireless signaller will be for one
   grade only, and will be conducted as is prescribed by the
   Minister of Telegraphs.

The examination will not be of a technical nature, but will
be confined to a practical knowledge of how to manipulate
the transmitting and receiving apparatus and its appurte-
nances, and the care and attention of the equipment neces-
sary to produce its efficient operation.

The candidate will be required to send and to receive in
prose, for a continuous period of five minutes in each case,
at a speed of not less than ten words per minute; and he
will require to have a working knowledge of the customary
procedure to be observed when communications are being es-
tablished between his station and another station ashore or
afloat and of the regulations applying thereto. Also, he will
be examined closely in the procedure to be followed in cases
where the distress signal or other important signal is involved.

The fee prescribed by the Minister of Telegraphs to be paid
by each candidate for examination is 5s.

VOLUNTARY EXAMINATION FOR WIRELESS SIGNALLER.

1. Any person being the holder of a foreign-going or a home-
   trade certificate of competency as mate of any grade or
   as master, desiring to become qualified as a wireless sig-
   naller should make personal application for this purpose to a
   District Telegraph Engineer, whereupon, on production of his
   certificate of competency, arrangements will be made for the
   examination to be held. If the applicant passes the examina-
   tion he will be provided with a certificate in the form of an
   examiner's authority, which will show that he has passed ex-
   amination for wireless signaller, and that on application for
   such being made by him to the Secretary for Marine, he is
   entitled to have his certificate of competency endorsed to that
   effect.

2. The candidate must deliver his examiner's authority,
   together with his certificate of competency, to a Superinten-
   dent of Mercantile Marine for transmission to the Secretary
   for Marine, who will endorse the certificate of competency
   "Passed voluntary examination for wireless signaller at
   , on , 19":

Provided, however, that the holder of an examiner's autho-
rity may, on application to a Superintendent of Mercantile
Marine, be allowed to perform the duties of wireless signaller
pending his certificate of competency being endorsed as herein
prescribed.

Fees.-The fee prescribed by the Minister of Telegraphs to
be paid by each candidate for each examination on each
occasion when he presents himself for examination for a cer-
ificate as wireless signaller is 5s.

G. C. GODFREY, Secretary.

Supplementary Teachers' Register and Supplementary Graded List of
Primary, Secondary, and Technical School Teachers, 1925.

Education Department,
Wellington, 16th December, 1925.

THE following list of teachers is issued under the authority of
the Minister of Education, in accordance with the requirements of the Education Act. The list contains the names of-

(a.) Teachers added to the Teachers' Register:
(b.) Teachers already in the Teachers' Register-
(1.) Now graded, but not previously graded:
(2.) Whose grading has been altered as the result
of correction in marks or change in certificate;
(3.) Who are now graded under an additional
division.

JNO. CAUGHELEY, Director of Education.

• Renewed to 31/12/27. † Also graded Tech. D II, C V, at 1/1/25.