Candidates must have passed at least five years of their life in Jamaica. If educated partially abroad, candidates must not have left Jamaica to commence such part of their education before the age of eleven years, their preliminary education having been secured in Jamaica. Every third year the selection of the Rhodes Scholars will be made from the candidates who have lived in Jamaica for the whole of the seven years preceding the date of examination. In case of such candidate having been off the island for the benefit of his health during this period, the Committee of Selection may decide, if they think fit, that this does not interfere with his eligibility. (Candidates who have attended a Colonial University affiliated to Oxford are exempted from Responsions if they fulfil the conditions of the Statute.) The qualifying examination will be held in the city of Kingston each year. Newfoundland. Candidates must have passed their eighteenth birthday, but must not have passed their twenty-first birthday, on the first of October of the year for which they are elected. Candidates or their parents must have resided in the Colony for the five years immediately preceding the examination. Candidates must have been regular attendant pupils or teachers _in one of the public schools of the Colony for the three scholastic years immediately previous to the examination_, provided that in alternate years, beginning in 1905, candidates who have received their education elsewhere subsequent to their fifteenth birthday, and who are otherwise qualified, shall be eligible. The qualifying examination shall be held in the city of St. John’s each year. New Zealand. Candidates must be either graduates of the University of New Zealand or undergraduates of that University. They must have been for five years immediately preceding the year of election domiciled in the Colony, and must have been educated in the Colony four of such years. The University of New Zealand has applied for and has been admitted to the privileges of the Colonial Universities’ Statute, so that candidates coming from that University who have fulfilled the stated conditions are accepted as candidates for Rhodes Scholarships without further examination. The qualifying examination will be held in the city of Kingston each year. South Africa. Candidates must have passed their eighteenth, but not have passed their twenty-fourth birthday on October 1 of the year for which they are elected.[39] =Natal.= (Additional Qualifications.) In Natal candidates are required (1) to have been educated at a School or Schools in the Colony of Natal for six years previous to the date of election, or (2) to have their legal domicile in Natal for six years, though acquiring their education or any part of it in other Colonies of South Africa. The Committee of Selection is free to make allowance at its discretion for temporary absences from the Colony or from South Africa during the six years referred to.