NEW ZEALAND'S TRAINING SHIP.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8330, 11 January 1907, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND'S TRAINING SHIP.

By Telegraph—Press Association

WELLINGTON, January 10,

Regulations in connection with the appointment of a staff and the enrolment of boys on the New Zealand training ship Amokura are gazetted to-night. Applications must be made by the parent or guardian of the candidate, accompanied by the written consent to his enrolment, and on the candidate being finally enrolled an undertaking must be given that he will not be removed from the vessel (unless discharged) for a period of two years or for such period as the Minister may determine. Boys will, on acceptance, be received on probation. The period of probation will be one week, when,* should a boy then be found unsatisfactory in i any respect, he will be immediately discharged. Boys found satisfactory will then be enrolled, and the necessary kit issued. No boy will be allowed, while in the service, to wear clothing other than that supplied to him on the training ship. This condition will also apply to boys when on leave. In order to qualify boys will have to take service in either the British Navy or the mercantile marine on completion of their training in the training ship. The minimum age at entry is fixed at thirteen year& v and a half and the maximum fourteen years and a half. Both these limits of age may be varied at the. discretion of the Minister. The period of service on the training ship shall be not less than eighteen months nor more than two years, at the discretion'of the Minister. On enrolment every boy will be rated as a "second class boy;" the sum of one 1 penny per day will be placed to his credit on the books of the training ship from the date of final acceptance. On his being raised to the rank of a "first-class boy," which may not take place until he has completed at least six months service, his pay will, if the Minister so approves, be raised to twopence per day. On receipt of one "good conduct" stripe, which should not take place until he has completed at least one year's service, his pay may, if the Minister so approves, be further increased to threepence per day. On being promoted to the rank of "petty officer," which should not take place until he has completed at least fifteen months' service, his pay may, if the Minister so approves, be further increased by an additional penny per ciay. Leave wi 11 be granted twice a year, i.e., twenty-one days at midsummer and fourteen days in the midwinter—in all thirty-five days—subject to good conduct.

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