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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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108 | Acting artificers, and artisans, 4th Class, and artificers and artisans, 5th Class

Sick Berth P.O. | ..

(B) & (C) | Artificers and artisans entered direct from the shore are to be entered as 5th Class whatever may be their age. Advancement to acting 4th Class will be governed by the following conditions: (a) The attainment of twenty-one years of age; (b) not less than three months’ service as 5th Class; (c) recommendation of commanding officer. Men entered under the age of twenty-one should possess at least the qualifications laid down for the 5th Class; those entered over that age, the qualifications laid down for acting 4th Class where those differ from the 5th Class. Otherwise the qualifications and conditions are as laid down in the King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions.

Substitute “A Leading Sick Berth Attendant may, after two years in this rating, be examined provisionally in New Zealand for the rating of Sick Berth Petty Officer by two Medical Officers not below the rank of Surgeon-Commander, and by a qualified Pharmacist of their selecting. Successful candidates will be sent to England and drafted to a Home Naval Hospital for at least one year, and sit for the final examination six months after joining such hospital. Candidates passing the final examination in England on the first occasion will count the date of passing provisionally for advancement purposes. In the event of failure to pass the final examination on the first occasion a candidate may be re-examined in three months’ time. If successful at the second attempt the date of passing for advancement purposes will be antedated to the date of passing provisionally, less the period between the first and second examinations.”

136 | Off. Stwd. 3 Cl.
Off. Cook 3 Cl. | (B) | Substitute “One year’s service as Officers’ Steward or Cook.”

9. Advancement of Boys under Training.—Youths over the age of seventeen years are to be entered as Boys, 1st Class, and paid as such “over seventeen years” from the date of entry.

10. Boys entered under the age of seventeen years are to be entered as Boys, 2nd Class, and are to be rated Boys, 1st Class, as laid down in the Training Service Regulations. Those who attain the age of seventeen years before being drafted to sea are to be advanced to the rating of Boy, 1st Class, when qualified, and antedated in that rating to the day on which they attained seventeen years of age. Instructor Boys may, however, be rated Boys, 1st Class, when given the former rating, provided they are then seventeen years of age, otherwise on attaining that age if not previously rated.

11. Discharge to the Shore, or Death: Report.—In all cases of discharge to the shore (except desertions), or death, a report is to be forwarded to Navy Office showing, in addition to the name, &c., the date of death or discharge; the address on discharge; or the address of the next-of-kin in cases of death; the date to which borne for pay; balance creditor or debtor, with reasons for the latter; and the amount of deferred pay if any credited on the current ledger.

12. Discharge by Purchase.—Discharge by purchase will be permitted under the conditions laid down in Article 192.

CHAPTER IV. LEAVE: OFFICERS.

80. Officers on Loan.—Officers on loan shall be entitled to leave as follows:—

(a) Foreign-service leave, under the same conditions as laid down in the King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions. When an officer makes his own passage arrangements to England his foreign-service leave will commence on the day following that on which the ship by which he would normally have travelled is scheduled to arrive in the United Kingdom.

(b) Leave in short periods in addition to (a) during service in the New Zealand Division up to a maximum of twenty-one days per annum. Any excess of twenty-one days is to be deducted from foreign-service leave. The leave-year for the purpose of this leave is to be reckoned from the date of first leaving the United Kingdom.