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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH MARCH, 1882.
REGULATIONS RESPECTING NAVAL CADETS.
For the Information of Candidates.
1. Appointments to Naval Cadetships will be made by limited competition, with the under- mentioned exceptions :-
Four Cadetships given annually to sons of gentlemen in the Colonies, on the recommendation of
the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Service Service Cadetships, the total number of which is not to exceed five in any one year.
Cadets will be selected by the Board of Admiralty from the sons of officers of the Army, Navy, or Marines who have been killed in action, or who have been lost at sea on active service, or killed on duty, or who have died of wounds received in action or injuries received on duty within six months from the date of such action or injury.
Applications for Service Cadetships should be addressed to the Military Secretary, Horse Guards, if the candidate is the son of an officer of the Army; to the Secretary of the Admiralty, if the candidate is the son of an officer of the Navy or Marines, and to the Military Secretary, India Office, if the candidate is the son of an officer of the Indian Army.
Colonial and Service Cadets will be entered on passing the test examination specified in paragraph 8, and will in all other respects be subject to these Regulations.
The examination of candidates nominated to compete, and also of Service Cadets, will be conduct- ed by the Civil Service Commissioners. A fee of ten shillings will be required from each candidate.
2. Except in special circumstances not more than one third of the number of candidates actually presenting themselves for examination at the Royal Naval College will be entered.
3. Nominations for Naval Cadetships will take place half-yearly as soon as convenient after the report of the last examination has been received.
4. Examinations of the young gentlemen who have obtained nominations will be held at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, commencing on the second Wednesday in June and the last Wednes- day in November in each year, and the appointments will date from the 15th July and 15th January following respectively.
5. No candidate will be eligible for examination in June whose age will not be within the following limits on the 15th July following, viz., not less than twelve nor more than thirteen and a half years of age, nor in November whose age will not be within those limits on the 15th January following.
6. Every candidate must be in good health, and free from any physical defect of body, impediment of speech, defect of sight or hearing, and also from any predisposition to constitutional or hereditary disease or weakness of any kind, and in all respects well developed and active in proportion to his age. Before being examined at he Royal Naval College, Greenwich, he will be required to pass the medical examination according to the prescribed regulations, and must have been found physically fit for the Navy; rejection at such examination will finally exclude him from the Navy.
7. The candidate will be required to produce (1) a certificate of the date of his birth,* or a declaration thereof made before a magistrate; (2) a certificate of good conduct from the masters of the if educated school or schools at which he may have been educated during the two previous years, or, at home, from his tutor or the clergyman of the parish in which he resides; and (3) a certificate of good health.
8. The candidates will be tested by examination in the following subjects:-
(1.) Arithmetic: including proportion, vulgar and decimal fractions........ (2.) Algebra: including fractions and simple equations of one unknown quantity (3.) Geometry: definitions, postulates, axioms, and subjects of the first twenty-
six propositions of Euclid's Elements..
Marks.
250
175
175
(4.) English writing from dictation
(spelling......75 100
handwriting 25)
reading with intelligence, and parsing easy sentences...
100
200
(5.) French: translating, by aid of a dictionary, French into English, and
English into French; reading, parsing, and speaking
200
(6.) Scripture history.
* A Certificate of Baptism will not be accepted.
100