TWENTY-THIRD REPORT OF HER MAJESTY'S CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONERS, TOGETHER WITH APPENDICES. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. : LONDON: PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. FOR HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFPICE. [C.-2439.] Price 38. 9d. APPENDIX VII.-Specimens of Examination Papers, Home Civil We, Your Majesty's Civil Service Commissioners, humbly offer to Your Majesty this our Twenty-third Report. In accordance with our usual practice we have appended to this Report a detailed account of the examinations held during The total number of cases dealt with in that year was 17,055 ;* the corresponding number in 1877 having been 15,888. These numbers may be distributed under the following heads :- I. Cases falling within the pro- Council of June 4th, 1870 - 11,851 11,875 It will be observed that the increase, amounting to about 7:3 per cent. on the whole number, occurs almost entirely in the cases not falling within the provision of the Order in Council of June 4, 1870, and especially under the heads of Home Services and Military Services. Under the former head it is due to an in- crease in the number of persons examined, at the request of the Lords of the Admiralty, for promotion in the dockyards; and in the latter to the extended operation of the change introduced in the previous year, whereby the “preliminary” was separated from the “further” or competitive portion of the examination for admission to the Royal Military College. The following statement shows in a summary form the par- ticulars of the 11,875 Home Civil Service cases dealt with under * In these and similar statements a candidate who appeared twice (or more) is I 447. Wt. B 706. a the Order in Council in 1878, as compared with the 11,851 cases similarly dealt with in 1877 : The principal competitions held during the year 1878 were as follows:- * * * Under Scheme I. Boy Clerkships, Lower Division Straits Settlements and Hong Kong Cadet ships Constabulary, Royal Irish :- -Cadets * County Surveyorships in Ireland * Customs :-Out-door Officerships Foreign Office :-Clerkships Foreign Office :-Student Interpreters * India Audit Office :-Lower Division Clerks * India Office :-Book-keeperships * Inland Revenue :-Law Clerks in Solici. tor's Office * Inland Revenue:--Assistants of Excise National Education Office, Ireland :-Inspec. tors of Schools * Patent Office : - Indexing and Abridging Clerks 1,224 11 2 2 |
