Calendar: 1899-1900 Page 406

402 CIVIL SERVICE DEPARTMENT bined Assistants can compete for Scholarships tenable years in the Laboratory Somerset House the best of those selected have chance of permanent appointment there salaries 130-15-300 350-20-500 &c Customs Assistants of 18-21 Subjects Writing Arithmetic Composition and Orthography Geography Digesting Returns Copying MS new appointment January 1899 50 16 Salaries -Assistants 70-5-105 2nd Class Examining Officers 110-7 -220 1st Class 230-10-340 Surveyors 350-550 Superior Officers 560-700 Post Office Clerks -Supplementary and other Limited to employos of 19-26 Arithmetic Composition in- eluding Writing Orthography Writing Reports Indexing Geography French or German or Latin Algebra History January 1899 15 May 1898 15 January 1898 20 Salaries -One scale is 100-10-200 200-10-300 300-15-400 The other is 80-7 10-200 200-10-300 400 There are higher appointments Male Learners Previously Telegraph Learners -15- 18 Height ft Orthography Writing Composition Arithmetic Geography Feb 1899 54 15 July 1898 65 19 February 1898 80 27 July 1897 115 23 Salaries-No pay during instruction months in Central in District Offices then 12s week for months 14s for months 16s for 12 months 18s till 19 then 52-6- 160 Senior Clerks 160-190 many higher posts Boy Copyists -15-18 Writing and Orthography Arithmetic Composition Copying MS Geography English History Translation from Latin French or German Books and II of Euclid and Algebra to Simple Equations Rudiments of Chemistry and Physics Candidates cannot take more than two of the last six subjects The Appointment ceases at 20 Jan 1899 240 21 Oct 1898 150 13 Aug 1898 164 18 Assistant Clerkships -Limited to Boy Copyists 19-21 Writing Orthography Arithmetic Composition Geography Digesting Returns Feb 1899 120 64 July 1898 100