CO129-261 - Public Offices & Others - 1893 — Page 558

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and Hungting 554 STRAITS SETTLEMENTS CADETSHIPS.

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Win the view of supplying the Civil Service the Straits Settlements Cadetships have been established, the holders of which are required to devote themselves for a certain time after their arrival in the Colony to learning one or more of the nativo languages, viz., Malay, Chinese, and Tamil, as the local Government may direct.

1. The Cadets, who must be natural-born British subjects, are selected by open competitive examination* held by the Civil Service Commissioners, to whom all inquiries on the subject should be addressed.

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The Examinations for these Appointments will, as a rule, be held in the month of October or November Candidates must be between the ages of 21 and 24 on the first day of August in the year in which the Examination is held.

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2. The selected Candidates will be expected to leave for the Colony- about a month after the results of the examination are announced.

3. Each Cadet will receive salary at the rate of $1,500 per annum,

half salary to commence from the day of leaving

of leaving England, and full salary

from the date of his arrival in

Settlements. The cost of his passage

to the Colony will be paid, subject to the liability of repayment hereafter mentioned (Secs. 6, 7).

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4. While studying the native languages he will be under the control and supervision of the Governor of the Colony, who will frame regulations for his hours of study and general government." Quarters, books, and teachers will be provided for him at the public expense, and he will be required to attend at the Public Offices a certain time each day as may be directed by the Governor, in order to give him an opportunity of learning the details of public business, without interfering with his reading. He may also, if thought advisable, be sent for a certain time to China or to Madras in order to acquire more intimate knowledge of the Chinese or the Tamil language.

5. As soon as he is declared by a Board of Examiners to have acquired a competent knowledge of one or more of the languages, and has passed Such a prescribed examination in Law, Colonial Regulations and Government Orders, he will be temporarily employed in such of the Departments as may require his services, at a salary of $1.800 per annum, and will be considered eligible the

the Slamentarz së Set for appointment as vacancies may occur, to offices in the Civil Service of the Straits Settlements the salaries of which range from about $2,400 per aunum to about 87,800 per annum.

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6. The progress of the Cadet will be tested by half-yearly examinations, and he will be liable to be dismissed without further pay, if he does not pass a final examination in one or more of the languages within such time as may be fixed, or if at any time his progress or conduct shall be considered by the Governor and Executive Council to be so unsatisfactory as

* A separate paper is issued by the Civil Service Commission, containing information in regard to the Examination.

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