Nov. 24.]

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

117. The Officer Commanding the District will, with a view
     to suit local convenience, arrange with the Officers Commanding
     country corps some time in advance the days on which they
     will be visited.

118. It is competent to the Officer Commanding on parade to
     direct any officer to assume the command for the purpose of
     manœuvring a battalion, though other officers senior to him be
     present.

119. No parade, at which less than two-thirds of the strength
     of a corps is present, is at any time to be credited to a corps as
     an inspection or Government parade towards capitation or
     efficiency.

120. The hours and places of meeting for ordinary drills to
     be fixed and published, and any deviation therefrom to be duly
     notified.

121. The Officer Commanding the District may permit any
     corps to change the day of drill temporarily, during such time
     of the year as the majority of the members are busily employed
     in their ordinary occupations.

122. The strictest punctuality must be observed by all ranks
     in attending parades and other duties; and no man is to fall
     in after his corps has been formed, except by special permission
     of the senior officer present on the parade.

123. No officer or Volunteer arriving on the parade-ground
     after a parade has been formed up shall be entitled to a record
     of attendance for efficiency or capitation.

124. Volunteer corps are not to assemble under arms for any
     purpose unconnected with military parade, drill, or rifle prac-
     tice, except with the consent of the Government.

125. When Volunteers belonging to one or more corps are
     brought together under arms at rifle shooting matches, or on
     other occasions connected with rifle practice, the senior officer
     present is to be considered as in command of all the Volunteers
     upon the ground; and although his position in this respect
     does not involve any authority for his interference in the
     arrangements of the meeting, yet he is held responsible for the
     due maintenance of order and discipline among the Volunteers
     under arms.

126. The senior officer present at any open-air parade will
     exercise his discretion as to the continuance or otherwise of the
     parade on account of the inclemency of the weather.

127. When Volunteers, at the termination of a field-day, are
     to return by railway to their head-quarters, the arms will be
     examined, and all the ammunition which has not been ex-
     pended must be collected from the pouches and placed in a
     case, with a view to its being conveyed in safety to head-
     quarters. Commanding Officers will be held responsible that
     this regulation is strictly carried out, and that in any case the
     arms and pouches are examined before the corps is dismissed.

128. None but enrolled members, properly dressed in uni-
     form, will be permitted to accompany a Volunteer corps at any
     field-day or review, either during the marching-past or the per-
     formance of the manœuvres.

129. Parade states of corps, showing the total numbers on
     parade, with names of absentees, must be rendered to the
     Adjutant or officer of permanent staff before the parade is
     dismissed, who will be held strictly responsible for the correct-
     ness as regards numbers present. Officers Commanding corps
     shall be responsible that a proper record is preserved, for entry
     in returns, of the names of those present on parade, and no
     pleas of error will be entertained after such returns have been
     rendered to the District Office.

RULES.

130. In order to give legal force to the rules proposed by a
     Vounteer corps for the management of its affairs, they must be
     submitted through the Commanding Officer of the District or
     through an Adjutant of the permanent staff, by one or other
     of whom they will be forwarded for the approval of the Go-
     vernor.

131. A model set of rules is given in Appendix for the guid-
     ance of corps; but other sets of rules will not necessarily be
     objected to because drawn up in a different manner.

132. Rules of Volunteer corps, which are to be forwarded
     for submission to the Governor, must be transmitted in dupli-
     cate; one copy being for retention by the Government, the other
     to be returned to the corps.

133. If any Volunteer corps shall not, within one month after
     the acceptance by the Governor of its services, submit for
     approval by the Governor a set of private rules for the guid-
     ance of such corps, the model set of rules given in Appendix
     shall be deemed to apply to any such Volunteer corps, and shall
     have the same force and effect in respect to such Volunteer
     corps as though they had been adopted and submitted in
     accordance with paragraph 132 of these Regulations.

134. A copy of the rules in force in a corps is to be given to
     each member on enrolment for his guidance and information.

CAPITATION AND PAY.

135. A capitation allowance of £2 10s. per annum will be
     granted to "efficient" members of Garrison and Head-Quarter
     corps, described in paragraph 110, subsection (a). A member
     to be deemed an "efficient" Volunteer must have, during the
     year,

(a.) Attended twelve Government parades or drills, four of
which must have been by daylight, and each of such
parades or drills not less than two hours' duration, one
of which must have been exclusively devoted to drill;
(b.) Fired in the first and second periods target practice;
(c.) Gone through first and second periods of judging-dis-
tance practice.

In consideration of special circumstances a field allowance of
£1 per man will be made to the Cavalry Volunteers in the North
Island.

136. Members of Cavalry corps who undergo the consecutive
     training or are present at the drills laid down in paragraph 114,
     and have fired forty rounds of ball cartridge at target practice,
     will be deemed "efficient" Volunteers.

137. Members of country corps, described in paragraph 110,
     subsection (b), will be deemed "efficient" and entitled to an
     allowance of £1 per annum if they have attended the four
     quarterly inspections of arms and drills detailed in paragraph
     116, have fired in the first and second periods of target practice,
     and gone through first and second periods of judging-distance
     practice during the Volunteer year.

138. No parade or drill is to be reckoned towards capitation
     if less than two-thirds of the strength of the respective corps (as
     detailed in paragraph 11) are present under instruction.

139. Capitation allowance is not granted to officers or non-
     commissioned officers of the permanent staff, or to Volunteer
     officers holding honorary rank, or to commissioned officers and
     members on the unattached or reserve lists.

140. Marching-out parades, unless for actual and special drill
     purposes, church parades, and guards of honour, will not be
     allowed to reckon towards qualification for capitation.

141. When a guard of honour is ordered by Government it is
     to consist of not less than forty rank and file, and each and
     every trained member of corps detailed for this duty who is
     present on parade will receive pay at the rate of 5s. per man.

142. Recruits who have not been passed in their drill are not
     to be detailed for a guard of honour.

143. 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, with a free ration when
     in the field, but with no other allowances whatsoever, except
     for Cavalry, who will receive forage in kind, or 3s. per diem in
     lieu thereof:-

Lieutenant-Colonel, 25s. per diem, with forage for two
horses;

Surgeon-Major, 25s. per diem, with forage for one horse;

Major, 21s. per diem, with forage for one horse;

Captain, 15s. per diem;

Adjutant, 3s. 6d. in addition to pay, and forage for one
horse;

Quartermaster, 13s. 6d.;

Surgeon, 18s.;

Lieutenant, 11s.;

Sub-Lieutenant, 10s.;

Staff Sergeants, 9s.;

Sergeants, 7s.;

Corporals, 6s.;

Trumpeters or Buglers, 5s.;

Privates, 5s.

144. A debit and credit account will be kept by the Govern-
     ment with each Volunteer corps, and after the receipt of the
     nominal return specified in paragraphs 241 to 245 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 capitation
     grant accruing to it in accordance with these Regulations, and
     will be debited from time to time with the cost of any material
     or uniforms supplied or obtained for it, and for ammunition
     or other stores supplied by Government on purchase.

145. A copy in duplicate of the debit account will be
     forwarded to the Officer Commanding the corps to which it
     refers, through the Officer Commanding the District in each
     year, one copy of which is to be returned to the Defence Office,
     with an acknowledgment by such Commanding Officer of the
     correctness of the account, or with such counter statement as
     he may consider necessary; the other copy will be retained for
     record by the corps.

146. If in the annual debit and credit account of any corps
     a balance remains to its credit, such balance will be paid into
     the funds of such corps through its Commanding Officer before
     the end 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 must be either paid to the Colonial
     Treasurer by the Officer Commanding on or before the 15th day
     of March of the same year, or be carried on to the next year's
     account, as may be decided by the Government.

147. Whenever any Volunteer corps about to be disbanded
     is indebted to the Government, the amount due by such corps
     must be paid to the Colonial Treasurer by the Officer Command-
     ing before it is disbanded.

148. No claim for the capitation allowance will be admitted