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4. In the case of a specially desirable boy who does not fulfil all the conditions required as regards physique and [or] educational standard, Recruiting Officers should forward the application and full particulars to the Director of Recruiting before proceeding with provisional entry. Such particulars should be accompanied by a letter stating the reason why the candidate is considered specially desirable for entry, notwithstanding the fact that he does not reach all the standards laid down.

5. In the case of boys, the procedure to be followed as laid down in the previous article is to be amplified by the addition of the following regulation:

Immediately a candidate has been despatched, the Depot should be informed by telegram of the scheduled time of arrival and mode of conveyance, in order that arrangements may be made for the boy to be met on arrival. Boys are to be warned that a petty officer will meet the train or steamer on arrival at their destination.

56. Physical Standard of Recruits over Seventeen Years.—The following minimum standards are to be adopted for recruits over the age of seventeen years:—

Youths (Seaman Class):—
Height. Mean Chest-
Ft. in. measurement.
Age 17–17½ .. .. .. 5 3 33½
,, 17½–18 .. .. .. 5 3½ 34
Men generally:—
Age 18–19 .. .. .. 5 4 35
,, 19–20 .. .. .. 5 4½ 35½
,, 20 and over .. .. .. 5 5 . 36

Special care is to be taken that no recruits under this standard are admitted.

Recruits are not be to accepted for training if over eighteen years of age in the case of youths, and twenty-two in the case of stokers.

(NOTE.—The recruiting of youths (seaman class) is suspended for the present.)

57. Entry of Officers’ Stewards and Cooks.—When vacancies exist in the complement for officers’ stewards and cooks, Commanding Officers should first ascertain from the Depot whether any such ratings are available for draft. Failing entry from this source, suitable candidates may be entered from the shore.

58. Officers’ stewards and cooks entered from the shore are required to engage for the same period as other new entries (vide Article 51); engagements for shorter terms than therein laid down should only be accepted as a matter of expediency.

59. Recruits under the age of eighteen should be entered as boy servants, and if over eighteen as officers’ stewards and cooks, 4th class.

60. Native Ratings.—Where on certain foreign stations it is the practice of the Admiralty to allow Native ratings to be entered for service, and when, if employed on such stations for long periods, the Commanding Officer of a ship of the New Zealand Division considers that necessity demands the entry of such ratings, he should apply by telegraph through his Senior Officer for Naval Board approval for the entry of Native ratings. The numbers of Natives to be entered and the capacity in which they are to be employed should be stated.

61. When approval has been given for the entry, Native ratings will receive the rates of pay and allowances laid down from time to time in Admiralty Fleet Orders, subject to the provisions of King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions, Article 1592. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Admiralty Fleet Orders, they should be victualled at the rates of victualling and/or messing allowances in force in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy.

62. This article is not applicable to H.M. ships of the New Zealand Division whilst employed on the New Zealand Station.

63. Military Trainees : Enlistment in New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy.—Persons liable for military training will, on enlisting into the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, be transferred by the Defence authorities to the "Serving in Navy List," and whilst serving in a naval unit will be exempt from military training. On enlistment as above their personal files relative to their military service will be transferred to No. 1 Regimental District (Auckland).

64. On ceasing to be a member of the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, a person who is still liable for Military training (i.e., under the age of twenty-five years in June of the year in which he is discharged from the Navy) will be liable for reposting to the Territorial Force. In such cases

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