Customs* Clerks and extra clerks Searchers, landing-waiters, coast officers, gaugers, Junior clerks and temporary clerks Factory Inspectors' Department→→→ Foreign Office Clerks Unpaid attachés General Register Office Clerks Indexers, transcribers, statistical abstractors, and sorters Office-keepers, messengers, stampers, and packers 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. tt 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. Auxiliary letter carriers in London Letter carriers and auxiliary letter carriers at other places Mail Guards Prisons Department- Schoolmasters Privy Council Office Supplemental clerks Public Works Loan Office Queen's Prison Record Office Reformatories (Office of Inspector of) Ordinary clerk. parties Stationery OfficeOrdinary clerks Other parties .... Supplementary clerks, temporary clerks, other 17 20 21 18 25 18 18 16 17 18 17 17 19 * Unless the nominee shall be a certificated attorney of one of the Courts of Law at West minster, 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. + Candidates who have previously been in some branch of the Public Service to be eligible, if under 27, it their previous service commenced before they were 25. Candidates for Junior situations in this Department, who have been previously in the Ser vice, 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. Non-commissioned officers (nominated to out- Established clerks Quartermaster General's Office- Adjutant General's Office Board of Fisheries- Board of Supervision SCOTLAND. Clerks, transcribers, and sorters Indexers Chief Secretary's Office- Messengers Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Office IRELAND. *Including Registries of Seamen, Designs, and 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. 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. DIFFERENT STANDARDS OF QUALIFICATION ESTABLISHED BY 3. Correspondence. 4. Précis. 6. Geography. 7. Either Clerks 1. Writing from Dictation. 2. Arithmetic (including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions). (a) Translation from Latin or (b) The leading points of Eng- or, (e) Algebra, Euclid, or any Clerks in Dockyards, Victualling MARSHAL OF COURT OF). i (c) Geography; (d) Algebra, Euclid, or any In examinations which are not competitive, the exercises in Languages are restricted to translation, Supplementary Clerks. 1. Exercises designed to test Hand- 3. Arithmetic (the first four rules, 4. Grammatical structure of sen- AUDIT OFFICE. 2. Writing from Dictation. |