Searchers, Landing-waiters, Coast Officers, Gaugers, Tide waiters, and Weighers 20 25++ Housekeepers and Messengers 21 358 Any candidate presenting himself within one month after attaining the prescribed age, will be eligible for examination. + Extra Clerks and Extra Officers, when promoted to the Establishment, to be admitted up to the age of 40 years, provided they were first employed before they reached the age of 25, and they will be entitled to reckon such previous service, provided they have been employed for not less than six months in each year. No person to be admitted from another Public Department who shall have attained the age of 30 years, nor even when over 25 and under 30, unless the party be appointed direct from such department, and shall have been under 25 when first admitted. No person to be admitted who shall have attained the age of 35, although he may be removed from another Public Department. Candidates who have previously been in the Public Service are eligible for Junior Clerkships until they have attained the age of 30, provided they were under 25 when they entered the Public Service, and have served continuously. With power, when a vacancy is filled up by transfer from another department, to extend the maximum to 30, provided the probationer had been appointed to his first office between 17 and 25. **As regards those who have not a home in London or in the immediate vicinity, the age should be between 20 years complete and 24 years complete. + Indexers or Transcribers may be admitted to clerkships up to 30, provided they were under 25 when originally appointed. The service must have been continuous. In the case of candidates already in the Public Service the maximum is to be 30, provided they were under 25 on first entering the Service. An exception being made in favour of persons, being writers, who are eligible if under 30. Unless already in the Service in some other capacity. A person nominated to this Department who has previously and up to the time of such nomination been in the continuous employment of the Government, his age being at the commencement of such employment between 16 and 25, may be admitted, though his age may exceed 25. *** Unless the nominee shall be a certificated attorney of one of the Courts of Law at Westminster, or shall have acted for at least seven years next before his application for such office as clerk to the Justices of any Petty Session, POST OFFICE t‡ : 18 25 Clerks in London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, and Surveyors' Letter Carriers and Auxiliary Letter Carriers at other places * Candidates who have previously been in some branch of the Public Service to be eligible, if under 27, if their previous service commenced before they were 25. + Candidates for Junior situations in this Department, who have been previously in the Service, are considered to be eligible, so far as their age is concerned, provided that their age did not, when they were first appointed, exceed the maximum age for candidates for the situations to which they may now be nominated. Any candidate presenting himself within one month after attaining the prescribed age will be eligible for examination. § Candidates for the situations of Letter Carriers in the Metropolitan Offices of London, Edinburgh, and Dublin will not be passed unless they are five feet five inches in height, and are able to lift two weights of half a hundredweight each. In the case of candidates already in the Public Service the maximum is to be 30, provided they were under 25 on first entering the Service. The limit to be 45 in all cases where there has been any previous Public Service extending beyond a period of five years. **Including Registry of Seamen, Registry of Designs, and Registry of Joint Stock Companies. + Persons already in the Public Service may be transferred to the Board of Trade, provided they were, at the time when they first entered the Service, under the maximum age for admission into the class to which they may be transferred. Non-Commissioned Officers (nominated to Out-stations or 888 18 25 20 30 18 25* 18 25+1 123 18 40+ 18 18 88 - 16 66 16 42 40 40 WOODS (OFFICE OF) : Clerks WORKS (OFFICE OF): QUEEN'S AND LORD Treasurer's REMEMBRANCER'S OFFICE ROYAL OBSERVATORY, Edinburgh 25 30 45 * Unless they have been continuously in the Public Service since they were 25, in which case the maximum may be extended to 30. +Temporary Clerks are considered eligible up to 30, provided their service commenced before they were 25. Candidates nominated to clerkships after having held other situations (not being temporary clerkships) in the service of the War Office, will only be required to have been within the prescribed limits of age when they first entered the Service. TABLE B.-Different STANDARDS of QUALIFICATION established by the various DEPARTMENTS. Note.-It must be understood that alterations may at any time be made. Department, and Qualifications required. I. WHITEHALL BRANCH. ADMIRALTY. 1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 4. Précis. 5. Geography. 6. English History 7. Translation from French. 8. Translation from Latin or a second modern language. II. SOMERSET HOUSE BRANCH. 1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). (a) Translation from Latin or a modern language; (b) The leading points of English or Modern History; or, (c) Algebra, Euclid, or any branch of Mathematics or Science. III. CLERKS IN DOCKYARDS, VICTUALLING YARDS, OR NAVAL ESTABLISHMENTS AT HOME, AND TEMPORARY CLERKS. 1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 3. Book-keeping.. ADMIRALTY (REGISTRAR AND MARSHAL OF COURT OF). I. CLERKS. 1. Exercises designed to test Handwriting and Orthography. 3. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). 5. Précis. 6. One of the following subjects : (a) Latin or a modern language ;† (b) The leading points of English or Modern History; (c) Geography; (d) Algebra, Euclid, or any branch of Mathematics or Science. † In examinations which are not competitive the exercises in Languages are restricted to translation. |