May 26.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 685

182. Guards turn out to other field officers once a day with shouldered arms.

183. Guards will turn out at all times when required to do so by the Commanding Officer.

184. The sentry posted near the guard-house will turn the guard out, which must always be done at the full extent of his voice by the words “Guard, turn out.” This is to be repeated by the commander of the guard only. The men will fall in at open order, with shouldered arms, dress by their right, and remain steady.

185. Officers and non-commissioned officers in charge of guards are to visit their sentries frequently, both by day and night, at uncertain hours, to see that they are alert on their posts and well acquainted with their orders.

186. Sentries are never to walk more than the prescribed distance on either side of their posts, and they are to move about in a brisk and soldierlike manner. When an officer passes they will halt and front, and pay the compliment due to the officer’s rank.

187. To field officers and to all above that rank sentries are to present arms; to all others of inferior rank they will shoulder arms.

188. When guards over any members of the Royal Family or over the residences of Viceroys and Governors within their governments are visited on duty by general officers or by the officers of the day, they will turn out and receive such officers with shoulder arms. All other guards will present arms to general officers and field officers of the day.

189. The general rule for sentries saluting is to halt, front, and “present arms” to general and field officers, to all parties commanded by an officer, and to guards commanded by a non-commissioned officer, and “shoulder” to officers of inferior rank. Sentries mounted over a Royal palace or furnished from a Royal guard are to be instructed to “present arms” only to members of the Royal Family or to an armed corps; on officers of whatever rank in uniform passing their posts they will stand with shouldered arms. In the same manner sentries furnished from guards over the residences of Viceroys and Governors will not present arms to persons of inferior rank.

190. The Government House guard turns out only for the Governor or for inspection.

191. The sentry on the Government House presents arms to the Governor only or persons of equal rank; to all other officers he stands at the shoulder.

BARRACK GUARD.

192. The non-commissioned officer in charge of the barrack guard is responsible for all prisoners.

193. He is to inspect all the men coming into barracks after tattoo to see if they are sober, and confine those who are drunk. The non-commissioned officer of the barrack guard is responsible that no liquors of any kind be admitted into the guard-house, and also that the prisoners wash, comb their hair, and clean themselves every morning. A prisoner is not to leave the guard-room except in charge of a non-commissioned officer.

194. He will not permit any man to leave the barracks who is not in every way correctly dressed.

INTERIOR ECONOMY.

195. Officers commanding batteries or companies will make such arrangements as regards rooms as will tend most to the convenience of the men and the good of the service.

196. The regularity of the men’s messing is of the first importance, as their health, good order, and comfort in a great measure depend upon it; the strictest attention of officers and non-commissioned officers is therefore demanded to this.

197. From the 1st October to the 31st March the men will breakfast at half-past 7, and during the remainder of the year at 8 o’clock; the dinner hour will always be at noon. The men will be clean and properly dressed at their meals.

198. Immediately after meals the floors are to be swept, tables cleaned, plates, &c., to be washed, and everything put in its place.

199. Tattoo will sound throughout the year at 10 p.m.; first post at half-past 9. Reveille at half-past 5 a.m. from the 1st October to the 31st March, 6 a.m. remainder of the year.

200. No bags, bundles, or old rags will be allowed in barracks.

201. The barrack furniture must be taken the greatest care of, and, should any article be damaged through inattention or carelessness, the men in charge will have to pay for it.

202. A roster will be kept in each battery or company, under the superintendence of the orderly-room clerk, from which all duties are to be warned by the orderly sergeant, who will parade all men for duty.

203. Rifles are not to be put in the arms-rack without the springs being eased.

204. No man is required to sign his accounts without being satisfied with them; if on examination the accounts are found to be correct, and he still refuses to sign, the point in dispute is to be referred to the Officer Commanding Permanent Militia for his decision.

205. The men are to be paid monthly in the presence of an officer.

206. On any non-commissioned officer or man being ordered to hospital he is to be taken there by an orderly non-commissioned officer of the battery or company to which he belongs, with a sick report. An immediate inspection of his kit is to be made, and duplicate lists of the same taken by the orderly non-commissioned officer in the presence of the senior non-commissioned officer of the man’s room and the sergeant-major of the battery or company. One of the lists will then be taken by the orderly to the hospital. The kit, with a duplicate list, will be taken charge of by the orderly-room clerk.

207. The kits of absentees are to be examined in the same way as laid down in the last paragraph, and deposited in the store.

208. In addition to ordinary military duties, members of the Permanent Militia are available for fatigue or any other work they may be ordered to perform, including the formation of roads, redoubts, and building forts and barracks, &c. When employed in the construction of such works the usual hours of labour will be from 8 a.m. to noon, and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., except in cases of emergency, when additional hours of labour may be necessary.

209. One of the most disgraceful offences that a man can commit is that of theft from a comrade, and this crime should be dealt with by the civil power. If the accused is convicted he will invariably be dismissed the force in addition to any other punishment which may be awarded to him.

210. When it is considered desirable to dismiss a man on account of his being incorrigible and worthless, an application, accompanied by a descriptive return, should be made to the Officer Commanding Permanent Militia; the officer forwarding the application should state the reason for recommending such dismissal.

211. Officers commanding detachments will forward quarterly to the Defence Office a return of men entitled to long-service medals, conditions being fourteen years’ continuous service, the last three years without any entry against them in the defaulter-sheet.

212. When a man is considered by his Commanding Officer to be, through being frequently on the sick list, physically unfit for the service, a report of the case should be forwarded to the Officer Commanding Permanent Militia, with a view to his being discharged. Men receiving injuries while on duty of such a nature as to incapacitate them for a continuous period of upwards of three months will, on the recommendation of a medical officer, be granted leave on half pay for a term not exceeding six months, when they will have to undergo a medical examination as to their fitness for future service.

213. The Christian names of all non-commissioned officers and men are invariably to be inserted in full in every document in which they appear, and their numbers are at all times to be prefixed to their names.

214. Officers, non-commissioned officers, and men are not entitled to have access to official records, under any circumstances, without the sanction of the Commanding Officer.

215. Officers, non-commissioned officers, and men are to observe strict silence when coming into an office, and not on any pretence to look over the clerk’s papers, &c. They will remain quiet until called upon to transact their business, which they will do as quickly and in as few words as possible.

216. No work or business that can be avoided is to be done in any office on a Sunday.

217. Officers are to provide themselves with the latest edition of the following books, viz.: Queen’s Regulations and Orders for the Army, Regulations and Instructions for Encampments, Field Exercise and Evolutions of Infantry, the two Manuals of Artillery Exercises (Artillery Officers only), Rules and Regulations of the Permanent Militia, Text-book, Military Law.

BATTERY OR COMPANY BOOKS.

218. Order-book, Ledger, Pay-sheet, Defaulter-book, Equipment Ledger, Letter-book (indexed up to date), Queen’s Regulations, Army Discipline Act, Rules and Regulations of the Permanent Militia, Text-book Military Law, Field Exercise and Evolutions of Infantry, Manual of Artillery Exercises (Artillery).

219. Any officer assuming the command of a station, district, battery, or company, who neglects to ascertain the actual state of the stores given over to him at the time of the transfer, will be understood to have admitted the accuracy of his predecessor’s accounts, and be held personally responsible for any deficiencies which may afterwards be discovered.

220. Officers are held responsible that they see the orders daily, and that they are promulgated to the men under their command.