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EMTRY OF BOY AHTIFIOERS.
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ENTRY OF BOYS AND YOUTHS
(SEAMAN CLASS).
GENERAL REGULATIONS FOE THE ENTRY
OV BOYS IN THE ROYAL NAVY.
Admiralty.
1. The age limits are at present l5i to 18 years.
2. Boys and youths are only entered flnaHv in the
United Kingdom, and by the following Officers :—
The Commodores of the Royal Naval Barraoks
J-'ortsmonth, Chatham and Devonport,
Commanding Officers of Training Estab-
lishments.
3. Candidates are provisionally entered by
Otlloers of the Coastgaard at any Coastguard Station
and by Recruiting Officers, Royal Navy and Royal
M arlnes, at London. Bristol, Manchester, Newcastle,
Nottingham, Sont^ampton and Glasgow. They are
then sent on to tlie ueirtst of the shliis or establish-
ments referred to lii paragraph 2, tor llnal entry.
(a) He must be of good character.
(bi Hn must be of robust frame, intelligent, of per-
fectly sound and healthy constitution, free
from any physical defects or malformation,
and not subject to fits.
(c) He must be able (1) to read a short passage from
a Standard IV. Rending Book, or if not avail-
able, from a newspaper ; ('2) to write a similar
passage of not more than sis lines, slowly read
over and then dictated ; and (3) he must have
a fair knowledge of the first four rules of arith-
metic.
(d) He must bo within the prescribed age limits In
force at the time, (i'ee paragraph 1.)
This must be proved by the production of a certificate
of birth, or. when impossible to obtain a certificate, by
a declaration made before a magistrate by his parent
or guardian.
(f) Every Boy under 17 years of age must obtam
the consent of his parent or guardian, or
nearest relative, to his entering the Navy and
engaging to serve until he shall have com-
pleted 12 years' continuous service from the
age of 18.
8. Candidates are not received from Prisons or
Reformatories.
8. Particulars can be obtained on application by
letter or otherwise to the Officers referred to in para-
graphs 2 and 3, and papers containing information can
be obtained as any Post OtBce or Employment Ex-
change in the United Kingdom.
No Candidate will be accepted whose intelligence,
constitution, and physique are not exceptionally good.
The current standard of height and chest measure-
ment may be obtained on application to a Recruiting
Officer.
* Candidates from the London District are examined
on presenting themselves at the Admiralty Recruiting
Office, SO, Cockspnr Street, S.W.I.
ENTRY OF BOY ARTIFICERS.
REGULATIONS FOR THE ENTRY AND
TRAINING OP BOY ARTIFICERS IN HIS
MAJESTY'S NAVY.
AdmiraXty,
Feb., 1920.
Entbt.
1. A limited number of Boy Artificers will be
entered annually in January and in July for training
fortheratingof Engine Room Artificer in the Royal
Navy. Candidates will be selected on the results of
examinations held annually in October for entry in
the following .January {vide paragraph 18) and In
April for entry in the following July (vide para-
graphs 6 and 15) Candidates must be the sons of
British born parents and must be between the ages
of 16 and 16 years on the—
•1st January for entry In January. *lst May for
entry in the July following.
•2. Every Candidate entered must be in good health
and of sound constitution, and be free, as far as can
be ascertained, from any disease or defect that would
unfit him for the duties of an Artificer in the Royal
Navy. His hearing must be unimpaired, and he
must possess full normal vision as determined by
Snellen's tests, each eye being separately examined.
3. Candidates will be medically examined at the
Admiralty, 7, Whitehall Place, London, S.W.I, or at a
Naval Port or Establishment or Recruiting Office, or
on onelot His Majesty's Ships, which will be selected
by the Admiralty as near as possible to their place of
residence. All Candidates who at the time of their
Medical Examination cannot produce certificates to
the satisfaction of the Examining Oflicers that they
have been re-vaccinated, must be re-vaccinatSd before
they can be considered eligible for entry.
Consent of Pabent on Entbt.
4. A successful Candidate on entering as Boy
Artificer must produce the consent, in writing, of his
parent or guardian, or nearest relative, to his enter-
ing the Royal Navy and engaging to serve for 12
years' continuous service from the age of 18.
SXSTBMS OV ENTEY.
6. Candidates are admitted as follows:—
(a) By open competition; or
(b) On the recommendation of certain Naval
Commanders-in-Chief, on account of Ser
vice Claims ; or
(c) By competition, limited to candidates recom-
mended by Educational Authorities.
(a) Entry by Open Competition.
6. An open competitive examinationisheldln April
each year (for entry in the July following), which Is
conducted by the Civil Service Commissioners at the
same time and in the same manner as the examin-
ation for Dockyard Apprentices.
7. The vacancies for appointment as Apprentices
to the various trades in His Majesty's Dockyards
(vide the Regulations for Dockyard Apprentices) will
be partly filled by Candidates at this examination
who fail to obtain appointments as Boy Artificers,
provided they are sufficiently high on the Examin-
ation List, and are eligible in all other respects. If
they wish to be considered Candidates for these
apprenticeships they must make the necessary
application before attending the examination, in the
manner provided by the Begtilations for Dockyard
Apprentices.
8. The List of Candidates for appointments by open
competition is kept at the ofllce of the Civil Service
Commissioners. All applications for the forms to be
filled up by persons who wish to compete must be
sent to the Secretary, Civil Service Commission,
Burlington Gardens, London, W. 1, on or after the
1st January In each yea,r, and care must be taken that
the Forms when filled up reach the Civil Service Com-
missioners on or before the ist March following (or if
that date should fall upon a Sunday or public holi-
day, then on or before the first day thereafter, on
which their office is open), as no notice will be taken
of forms received after that date.
* A candidate born on let January or ist May Is eligible for entry only In the year in which tha 16tll
annlverRBry of his birth falls, and not In the year In tvblcb be attains the ase of is.