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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH JULY, 1887.

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 Cadetships, the total number of which is not to exceed five in any one year. Service Cadets will be selected by the Board of Admiralty from (a) 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, (b) sons of officers of the Navy who have performed long or distinguished service, and who hold or have held rank or relative rank on the Active List not lower than that of Commander. Not more than two such latter Service Cadets will be nominated annually.

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 as specified in paragraphs 9 and 10, and will in all other respects be subject to these Regulations.

The educational examination of all candidates will be conducted by the Civil Service Commis- sioners (address Cannon Row, Westminster) who will deal with all questions connected with such examination and will announce the results. 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 before the.Civil Service Commissioners will be entered.

3. The nomination of candidates for Naval Cadetships will be made by the First Lord, by individual members of the Board, and by the Secretaries to the Board of Admiralty.

A Flag Officer or a Commodore 1st Class appointed to the chief command of a station, or to a separate command, and a Captain, on first appointment as such to the command of a ship, will be allowed to nominate one candidate, provided the privilege is exercised within six months of appointment.

No Captain will be entitled to nominate more than one candidate during the time he holds the rank of Captain, but a Flag Officer or a Commodore 1st Class may claim the privilege each time he is appointed to a command as above.

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In the event of a candidate's nomination being cancelled before he has commenced the examination, the Officer who nominated him will be allowed to select another candidate for the same or following examination.

4. The nominations will be made half-yearly, as soon as convenient after the Report of the last examination has been received from the Civil Service Commissioners.

5. The examinations will be held in London and at Portsmouth, and will commence on the second Wednesday in June and the last Wednesday in November in each year, an the appointments will date from the 15th July' and 15th January following respectively.

6. No candidate will be eligible for examination whose age will not be within the following limits on the 15th January following the November examination, and on the 15th July following the June examination viz., for the examinations in November 1887 to June 1888, not less than 12 nor more than 14 years

of age,

and at subsequent examinations not less than 13 nor more than 14 years of age. 7. 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 by the Civil Service Commissioners 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.

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8. The candidate will be required to produce (1) a certificate of the date of his birth, declaration thereof made before a magistrate; (2) a certificate of good conduct from the masters of the school or schools at which he may have been educated during the two previous years, or, if educated at home, from his tutor or the clergyman of the parish in which he resides; and (3) proofs of good health.

Marks.

9. Candidates will be tested by examination in the following subjects:-

i. Arithmetic including proportion, vulgar and decimal fractions... ii. Algebra: including fractions, simple equations and problems, and quadratic equations

of one unknown quantity

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iii. Geometry: Euclid, Book 1., with exercises and questions.

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* A Certificate of Baptism will not be accepted.