APRIL 9.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 727

The following Schedule of time allowances in respect of workshop service other than fitting, erecting, or repairing applies to service performed in connection with machinery of the nature indicated above.

The total maximum allowance is two and a half years.

Turning ... Full time, with a maximum allowance
of two and a half years.

Planing, slotting, shaping, Full time up to six months, and beyond
and milling six months one-third time.
(NOTE.—Full time allowed in respect of intermittent work on machines during apprenticeship only.)

Drawing-office work .. Full time up to one year, and beyond one year one-half time.

Pattern-making .. One-half time, with a maximum allowance of one year.

Boilermaking or repairing One-half time.
Smithwork .. One-half time, with a maximum allowance of one year.

Brass - finishing (heavy One-half time, with a maximum allowance of one year.
work)

Coppersmith-work .. One-third time, with a maximum allowance of six months.

Service performed at works where the making and/or repairing of engines, boilers, &c., is merely incidental to the running of the plant used for the production of power for other machinery may be accepted, but applicants who have served in such establishments will, as a rule, be required to perform further service in accordance with the provisions of Rule 57, each case being considered on its merits.

WORKSHOP SERVICE WHERE ENGINES OR SIMILAR MACHINERY OF SUITABLE SIZE ARE NOT MADE OR REPAIRED.

57. Workshop service other than that described in Rule 46 will be accepted if it is deemed useful training for a sea-going engineer, but each case must be submitted to the Chief Examiner for consideration before the applicant is allowed to sit for examination. For every fifteen months of such service accepted, the applicant must have performed not less than three months' additional service in works where the making or repairing of engines or similar machinery of suitable size forms part of the regular business for which the works exist, or at sea, either on regular watch on the main propelling machinery or on day-work; and should the deficient character of the service warrant further compensation a longer additional period may be required.

SERVICE IN WORKSHOPS OUTSIDE NEW ZEALAND.

58. The conditions in respect of workshop service mentioned in Rules 46, 56, and 57 apply to service performed in the Dominion of New Zealand. Service in workshops outside the Dominion will not be accepted unless the Chief Examiner is satisfied in each case that its value is substantially equivalent to that of qualifying service performed in New Zealand.

TECHNICAL INSTITUTIONS.

59. Time spent at an approved day technical school where there is an engineering laboratory is accepted as equivalent to workshop service, usually in the ratio of three years in the technical school to two years’ workshop service, provided that the applicant has taken the full engineering course, and can produce the Principal’s certificate for satisfactory progress and for regular attendance at all the approved classes. Time thus spent will not as a rule be regarded as equivalent to more than two years’ workshop service, nor will any remission of workshop service be granted in respect of time spent at a day technical school before the age of fifteen.