STRAIGHT TO NAVY FROM PUBLIC SCHOOL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 566, 10 May 1913, Page 3

STRAIGHT TO NAVY FROM PUBLIC SCHOOL.

In order to meet the need of officers Eor new warships the British Admiralty has decided that cadets should be taken direct from the public schools. The Admiralty describe the scheme as an emergency measure. Candidates (of whom not more than thirty will be admitted annually to the navy must be between the ages of seventeen and a-half and nineteen on June Ist. In 1914 anda fter the upper limit of age will be eighteen and a-half. Before the examination a report will be obtained by the Admiralty from the candidate's headmaster, and an Admiralty's committee will decide eligibility to compete. The usual medical tests must be passed, and the examination will be in English, English history and geography. French or Gtrman or Latin, mathematics, physics, and chemistry, and elemen tary engineerng. Candidates will be admitted as naval cadets to a course of training, and will then be distri buted as midshipmen in the fleet. Thßy will be older than Osborne midshipmen, but their service in that rank will be shorter, and they will be about a year older than the regular cadets are in attaining th« rank of This will be no bar to their advancement. Tuc same subsequent career will be open to them ss to officers who have entered through Osborne.