THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 28TH JANUARY, 1882.
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6. As at present arranged, a Cadet after his appointment will remain for one year in this country, and will be required to begin learning Chinese and to attend a class for students of Chinese at King's College or at University College; he will also be employed during some hours daily at the Colonial Office in the work of the Department. At the end of his year's study in this country the Cadet will be examined in Chinese, and the confirmation of his appointment will depend upon his passing a satisfactory examination, and on his performance of his duties in the Office.
7. Each Cadet will receive salary at the rate of £100 a year while studying in this country and a salary of $1,200 a year from the date of his arrival in the Colony. The cost of his passage to the Colony will be paid, subject to the liability of repayment hereafter mentioned (Secs, 11, 12). And half-salary will be allowed from the date of embarkation.
8. After arrival in Hongkong he will be required to continue his study of the language.
9. While thus studying, 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 duties. Quarters, books, and teachers will be provided for him at the public expense, and he will be required to attend at the Public Offices for a certain time each day as may be directed by the Governor in order to give him an oppor- tunity 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 in order to acquire more intimate knowledge of the language.
10. As soon as he is declared by a Board of Examiners to have acquired a competent knowledge of Chinese, he will be employed in such Department as may require his services, at salary of $1,800 per annum, without other allowances, and will be considered eligible for promotion in the Civil Service of Hongkong on the occurrence of any vacancy which he may be deemed suitable to fill.
11. 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 his final examination 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 to render such a course desirable. The Governor and Council will decide, having regard to the ground of dismissal, whether the Cadet shall be sent home at the public expense, or shall be left to find his own way home, or shall be, in addition, called upon to repay the cost of his
passage out.
12. A bond must be entered into by the Cadet and two approved Sureties with the Crown Agents for the Colonies to secure the repayment of the cost of the passage out, in the event of his dismisal and of its being decided by the Governor and Executive Council that such repayment shall be enforced; and also in the event of the Cadet within four years from the date of his arrival in Hongkong either quitting the Colony without leave or relinquishing his appointment (except for ill health), together with a further sum of £50 for each year to repay the Colony the cost of his teaching, up to his leaving.
The $ is at present reckoned by the Hongkong Government at 4s. 2d. for the purpose of the pay- ment in England of half-salary or pension.
COLONIAL OFFICE, December, 1881.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS CADETSHIPS.
With a view to supply the Civil Service in the Sraits 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 Native Languages, viz., Malay, Chinese and Tamil.
1. The Cadets are selected by open competitive examination held by the Civil Service Commissioners. The examinations for these appointments will, as a rule, be held in the month of August, in those years in which vacancies have occurred in the Civil Service of the Straits Settlements. and will take place at the same time as those for Cadetships in Ceylon and Hongkong. and the successful Candidates will be allowed in their order to choose amongst the vacancies in the three Colonies.
2. 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, and must satisfy the Civil Service Commissioners that they are duly qualified in respect of health and character.
3. No Candidate will be admitted to the competition who has not previously passed to the satisfaction of the Civil Service Commissioners, a Preliminary Examination in Handwriting, Orthography, and Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions).
4. The fees required from candidates are £1 for the preliminary and £5 for the competitive examination.
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