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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 223.
The following Regulations made by the Governor in Council and approved of by the Secretary of State respecting the filling up of appointments in the Civil Service at the disposal of the Governor are published for general information.
The Regulations published in Government Notification No. 203 of the 9th June, 1883, are hereby cancelled.
By Command,
W. M. DEANE,
Acting Colonial Secretary,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th May, 1891.
REGULATIONS
Made by the Governor in Council for the filling up of such appointments in the Civil Service of the Colony as are at the disposal of the Governor.
1. Clerkships in the Hongkong Civil Service are divided into two classes, viz., Class A in which the salaries are not less than $1,200 per annum, and Class B in which the salaries are under $1,200 per annum.
2. Appointments to Class B will as a general rule be made by the Governor (subject to the confirmation of the Secretary of State for the Colonies where the salary is over $600 a year), after a local competitive examination for which candidates must be nominated by the Governor. For appointments in Class A, when the Governor desires to recommend a local candidate, his selection will be made either (a) by a higher competitive examination, for which candidates must be nominated by the Governor, and for which holders of clerkships in Class B will be allowed to compete, or (b) by the promotion of a specially competent clerk from Class B to Class A without examination.
3. Candidates for Class A, if appointed locally by competitive examination, must be over 18 and under 28 years of age on the day of such examination, but if appointed on promotion from Class B there will be no limit of age.
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Candidates for Class B must be over 17 and under 20 years of age on the day of the competitive examination.
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4. Candidates for a vacant post must send in their applications to the Colonial Secretary, together with (a) a certificate of age, (b) a certificate of health, (c) whatever certificates or testimonials as to character they may possess.
5. No candidate shall be allowed to compete unless he shall have previously satisfied the Colonial Secretary as to his eligibility in respect of age, health and character.
6. The Board of Examiners will appoint a day for the examination, and cause due notice thereof to be given in the Government Gazette or otherwise.
7. The Subjects of examination for Class A will be: Handwriting, Orthography, Arithmetic, Copying Manuscript (to test accuracy), English Composition, Geography, Indexing or Docketing, Digesting Returns into Summaries, English History, Book-keeping.
For Class B the essentials of the examination will be the following English subjects, namely –
(a) Reading including print and manuscript,
.200 marks.
(b) Handwriting, including quality and rapidity...
.400
(c) Writing from Dictation and copying from manuscript, .......... 400
(d) Composition, the subject being chosen with a view to test also general intelligence; punctuation, grammar, orthography and idiom will be taken into account,
.400
(e) Arithmetic, including the simple and compound rules, proportion,
vulgar and decimal fractions,
.800
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