588

Hunting spurs, plated.
Forage cap without peak: blue cloth, with band of
silver lace for Officers and Sergeants, and scarlet
cloth for other ranks, 1 1/2 inch wide, silver or scarlet
cloth button and braid on top.
Sword with steel scabbard; sword belt, brown
leather.
Pouch, black leather; pouch belt, brown leather.

Artillery and Artillery Cadets.
Blue cloth or serge jumper, scarlet collar and
trimmings.
Trousers: blue, with red stripe 1 1/2 inch wide down
outward seam, and brown leather leggings.
Forage cap without peak: blue cloth, with band of
silver lace for Officers and Sergeants, and scarlet
cloth 1 1/2 inch wide, silver or white cloth button and
braid on top.
Sword with steel scabbard; sword belt, brown
leather.
Pouch and pouch belt, same as Cavalry.

Engineers, Rifles, and Rifle Cadets.
Gray cloth jumper, with facings according to
choice.
Trousers: gray cloth, with bead 1/2 inch wide, same
colour as the facings down outward seam. Leggings,
brown leather.
Forage cap: French peak, gray cloth, with coloured
band 1 1/2 inch wide, of same colour as the facings,
and initials or number of corps placed on the band in
front.
Sword, with steel scabbard; sword belt, brown
leather.

Naval.
Same as for Her Majesty's Navy, substituting
silver lace for gold.
72. Any Volunteer Corps may wear a full dress
uniform of such material and description as, with the
approval of the Commander-in-Chief, may be selected
by the members, provided that the respective colours
are the same as those laid down in the above
Regulations for each branch of the service.

STORES.
73. All stores which are supplied by Government
for the use of a Volunteer Corps, will be issued
through the Officer commanding such corps, who will
be accountable for the same, and will be held respon-
sible that the arms and accoutrements are at all
times kept clean and serviceable, and that they are
returned into store, when required, in good order
and condition, fair wear and tear excepted. (Vide
Appendix E.)
74. In corps of Artillery Volunteers, the Non-
commissioned Officers attached as Instructors are to
act under the orders of the Adjutant of the Perma-
nent Staff as custodians of the guns, gun ammunition,
and artillery stores.
75. The locks of the rifles, when in use, should be
taken to pieces and thoroughly cleaned and oiled at
least once in every three months, by properly qualified
persons. In wet weather, or after firing, the rifles
should invariably be cleaned immediately after
parade.
76. Volunteers must not, under any circumstances,
tamper with their rifles; and any rifles which on
inspection may be found to have had their locks or
any other parts improperly altered, will be at once
returned into store, and repaired at the expense of
the corps.
77. A scale of charges for loss or damage of arms,
accoutrements, &c., the price of ammunition issued
for practice, and the price which will be charged for
any service ammunition made away with or lost
through neglect, will be found at the end of the
Appendices.

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

RIFLE PRACTICE.
78. The rifle practice ground of a Volunteer Corps
must afford a range of at least 300 yards; but it is
desirable that the range should extend to 800 yards.
79. None but Non-commissioned Officers or ex-
perienced Volunteers are to act as Markers at Rifle
ranges. The practice of employing boys in that
capacity must be prohibited.
80. Government ammunition only to be used with
Government weapons.
81. A Volunteer cannot wear any badge denoting
proficiency in rifle practice without authority, which
is to be obtained through the Adjutant of the Per-
manent Staff, and duly certified by himself, and
countersigned by the Commanding Officer.
82. A Volunteer is permitted to wear special
badges to denote proficiency at various ranges,
viz. :-
a. When the range available extends to 300 yards
only, a Volunteer who obtains the greatest
number of points over 30 in the 3rd class, may
wear a rifle embroidered horizontally.
b. When the range is between 350 and 600 yards,
the Volunteer who obtains the greatest number
of points over 30 in the second class, may
wear a rifle embroidered horizontally, with a
star immediately above it.
c. When the range available extends to 800 yards,
every Volunteer who obtains 20 points and
upwards in the 1st class, may wear a rifle
embroidered horizontally, with two stars
immediately above it.
d. When the range extends to 800 yards, the
Volunteer who obtains the greatest number of
points above 20 in the 1st class, may wear a
rifle embroidered horizontally with three stars
immediately above it.
83. The badge marking efficiency in shooting is to
be worn on the left arm, immediately above the cuff
of the sleeve; that for a Sergeant Instructor in
Musketry, on the right arm, midway between the
elbow and the shoulder.
84. The badge should be worked on cloth the colour
of the facings, and is in no case to be worked in
gold.

CADET CORPS.
85. Cadet Corps are formed of youths between
twelve and seventeen years of age. They will only
be entitled to one-half of the annual capitation
allowance granted to Volunteers of the same branch
of the Service.
86. Proposals for forming a Cadet Corps are to be
made to the Officer Commanding the District or an
Adjutant of the Permanent Staff, who will forward
the proposal for the consideration of the Govern-
ment. In such application the proposed strength of
the corps is to be stated.
87. The members of a Cadet Corps are not to be
attested for service.
88. The Commissioned Officers of a Cadet Corps
receive only honorary commissions.
89. To members of a Cadet Corps, who, in the
opinion of the Officer Commanding the District or
Adjutant of the Permanent Staff, are of sufficient
age to carry on rifle practice, arms will be issued and
ammunition supplied in the proportion laid down in
clause 67, to be fired for only under the supervision
of the Officer Commanding the Corps, or a member of
the Permanent Staff.
90. Cadet Corps are not to fire in military forma-
tion unless they have been inspected and pronounced
qualified to do so by the Adjutant of the Permanent
Staff.

PAY AND FINANCE.
91. Officers and Volunteers (excepting Officers
and Non-commissioned Officers of the Permanent