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examination. Deduct this excess from the date of his embark- ation (1-1-1920) and you get the date 19-2-1916. Mr Coulson will thus be paid salary, and be given seniority, as though he
1916. had joined the service on 19th February,
7.As regards the relative seniority of ex-service Cadets wh were not over age at the date of their examination Colonial Regulation 37 (vide paragraph 4c above) applies, i.e.,seniorit
how- is determined by date of ambarkation. In certain cases, ever, Cadets received their letters of appointment, and - barked, upon the same day. As between such cases seniority has been determined by the order of merit given in the Civil Ser- vice Commissioners' rinted statement of the results of the examinations (Interviews). it might, at first sight, appear
as though these statements of order of merit might have been taken as the sole criterion of seniority in respect of Cadets who were under 24 at the date of their examination. The cri- terion breaks down, however, because some Cadets who passed at the third examination did not come out until after some who passed at the fourth, and so on. In these circumstances it has been necessary to fall back on Colonial Regulations 37 as the
main principle.
8.The attached table shews the seniority of ex-service Cadets as determined by the decisions comunicated in this letter. In compiling this table the following axioms have been
adhered to:
(a)"Date of examination means the date of the examinatio at which an officer qualified, irrespective of whethe
his selection as a result of the immediately sub- sequent interview, or of an interview following a
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