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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

any service ammunition made away with or lost
through neglect, will be found at the end of the
Appendices.

RIFLE PRACTICE.

76. 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.
77. 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.
78. Government ammunition only to be used with
    Government weapons.
79. 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.
80. 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 36 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 600 yards,
    every Volunteer who obtains 22 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 22 in the 1st class, may wear a
    rifle embroidered horizontally with three stars
    immediately above it.
81. 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.
82. The badge should be worked on cloth the colour
    of the facings, and is in no case to be worked in
    gold.

CADET CORPS.

83. 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.
84. 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.
85. The members of a Cadet Corps are not to be
    attested for service.
86. Officers commanding Cadet Corps will receive
    substantive Commissions, and other Officers letters
    of appointment.
87. 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 66, to be fired for only under the supervision
of the Officer commanding the corps, or a member
of the Permanent Staff.
88. 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.

89. Officers and Volunteers (excepting Officers
    and Non-commissioned Officers of the Permanent
    Staff), when out on actual military service in the
    field, or when doing garrison duty, shall receive the
    following rates of pay*:
    Lieut.-Colonel,-23s. per diem, with forage for
    two horses.
    Major,-19s. per diem, with forage for one horse.
    Surgeon,-18s. per diem, with forage for one
    horse.
    Captain,-14s. 7d. per diem.
    Adjutant,-3s. 6d. in addition to regimental pay,
    and forage for one horse.
    Quartermaster,-12s. 6d.
    Assistant-Surgeon,-13s.
    Lieutenant,-9s. 6d.
    Sub-Lieutenant,-8s. 3d.
    Staff Sergeants,-5s.
    Sergeants,-3s. 6d.
    Corporals,-3s.
    Trumpeters or Buglers,-2s. 6d.
    Privates,-2s. 6d.

90. A debit and credit account will be kept by the
    Government with each Volunteer Corps, and after
    the receipt of the nominal return specified in section
    38 of these Regulations, showing the number of
    efficient Volunteers for whom the capitation grant
    is admissible, the corps to whom such return relates
    will be credited with the full amount of the capita-
    tion grant accruing to it in accordance with these
    Regulations, and the branch of the service to which
    it may belong, and it will be debited from time to
    time with the cost of any materials for uniforms
    supplied to it by the Government, and for ammu-
    nition or other stores supplied by Government on
    purchase.

91. A copy in duplicate of such debit and credit
    account will be forwarded to the Officer commanding
    the corps to which it refers, during the month of
    May in each year, one copy of which is to be returned
    to the Under Secretary for Defence, with an acknow-
    ledgment by such Commanding Officer of the correct-
    ness of the account, or with such counter statement
    as he may consider necessary; the other copy will be
    retained for record by the corps.

92. If in the annual debit and credit account of
    any corps it is shown that a balance remains to the
    credit of the corps, such balance will be paid into
    the funds of such corps through its Commanding
    Officer on or before the 30th day of June of the
    financial year to which the account relates. If it is
    shown that a balance remains to the debit of the
    corps, the amount so shown as due by such corps
    must be either paid to the Colonial Treasurer by the
    Officer commanding such corps on or before the
    15th day of June of the same year, or be carried on
    to the next year's account, as may be decided by the
    Government.

93. Whenever any Volunteer Corps is disbanded,
    or its services are discontinued, and the same shall

• With a free ration when in the field, but no other allow-
  ances whatsoever, except for Cavalry, who will receive forage in
  kind, or 3s. per diem in lieu thereof.