Calendar: 1888-1889 Page 490

482 CIVIL SERVICE CLASSES The Class meets on Thursdays from 20 to 50 Fees -One period of nine weeks 15s two £1 7s Students can join month after the beginning of each period for the remainder of that period and the whole of the next for fee of £1 2s 6d Book required -Brook-Smith's Arithmetic Macmillan 4s 6d Books recommended -Spelling Vocabulary Chambers tid Gill's Imperial Geography for Telegraph Learners only Gill 23 Warwick Lane Paternoster Row 2s 6d or Gill's Geography of the British Empire Is to be had at the College by Students only King's College Tots 66 to be had at the College by Students only Boy Copyists -Subjects of Examination Handwriting Orthography Tots Elementary Arithmetic Limits of age 14 and 18 Rate of pay 47 per hour with small annual increase Hours of employment generally or per day Holidays with pay fortnight per year in addition to the Bank Holidays &c Boy Copyists are not retained as such after the age of 20 They are allowed for the purpose of Civil Service Examinations to deduct from their actual age whatever Service they may have had up to five years provided it he not less than two years Male Telegraph Learners Subjects of Examination Arithmetic highest marks attainable 300 Orthography 300 Handwriting 200 Geography of the United Kingdom 200 Limits of age 14 to 18 Male Telegraph Learners receive no salary during the first three months they then receive 12s per week After about three years' service they are appointed 2nd Class Telegraph Clerks with salary rising by £5 per year from £45 to £100 1st Clas3 Clerks rise from £110 to £140 and Senior Clerks from £150 to £190 per year