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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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221. The following routine orders are to be inserted without further notice, weekly, in Saturday’s orders in each battery or company: Battery or company orderly, Church parade, Commanding Officer’s parades.

CORRESPONDENCE.

222. All communications, whether original letters, minutes, or passed documents, are to be signed by the Commanding Officer.

223. All documents received should be immediately noted, and returned with the replies, which should, as far as possible, be written in continuation of the original memorandum. When no reply is required, the document should be signed and dated by the Commanding Officer, and returned.

224. Official letters are to contain full information of all particulars to which they relate.

225. Each letter is to refer to one subject only, and is to be written on foolscap paper, with the left half-margin left blank. The enclosures, if any, are to be described in body of letter or in a separate schedule. The rank and corps of officers are in all cases to be added after their signatures.

226. When a communication has any reference to previous correspondence from head-quarters the registered number, date, and purport of the former papers are to be quoted.

ARTILLERY DUTIES IN GARRISON AND DISTRICTS.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS.

227. The Commanding Officers of detachments of Artillery in a garrison or district are responsible for the whole of the ordnance, ammunition, and stores in their charge.

228. Each officer in charge of a district or subdistrict is to prepare a book for himself, showing the nature and distribution of the ordnance, ammunition, and stores in his charge.

229. Officers in charge of batteries will visit them weekly, and report to the Officer Commanding the Permanent Militia every Monday morning. These visits should be made irrespective of weather.

230. Every description of ammunition must be so packed and stowed that in case of alarm by night no mistake can occur.

231. In order to insure the efficiency and mobility of the ordnance in a district the guns are to be traversed one-eighth of a circle every week, and the carriages run up and back once a fortnight at least. Compliance with this order is to be noticed in the weekly reports.

232. All guns are to be thoroughly sponged out at least once a month. The tompion is always to be kept in the muzzle, and vent-plugs to be used with every gun required for immediate service, the vents of the other guns being stopped with putty. Officers visiting their batteries are to see these means of preservation are adopted.

233. No alteration or addition whatever in the equipment is to be made in any district without the sanction of the Officer Commanding Permanent Militia.

234. The general instructions issued for the guidance of officers and master-gunners in charge of magazines, for the employment of lamps in magazines, for making up ammunition, or filling shells, are to be rigidly complied with.

ARTILLERY PRACTICE.

235. Previous to firing, the non-commissioned officers and men are to be drilled at the guns they are about to use, and no man is to be allowed to join the practice squads until reported efficient in such drill.

236. The printed instructions on the back of the practice reports are to be carefully adhered to.

INSTRUCTOR OR MASTER GUNNER.

237. No non-commissioned officer should be recommended for the office of master-gunner who is not thoroughly conversant with the exercises of heavy ordnance. He should also be competent to keep store-ledgers, &c., and should have a knowledge of the mode of painting ordnance, carriages, ammunition, &c.

238. After his appointment to a district he is to execute all orders he may receive from the officer in charge, to whom he is directly responsible that all such orders, as well as the standing orders concerning magazines, &c., are exactly carried out.

239. He is responsible for the proper employment of the district gunners, who are immediately under his command. He will carefully instruct them in the nature and object of the stores, ammunition, &c., in their charge, as well as in the mode of using the various implements and tools. Special instructions with regard to this work are issued.

240. He is to have the various articles in the store properly labelled, so that, in the event of the absence of the district gunner in charge, there may be no difficulty in finding the proper elevating screw, sights, &c., for any particular gun.

241. He is to keep the keys of the magazines and stores constantly in his charge, and to be present if possible at the opening of the magazines.

242. He is to take care that the guns are sponged out and traversed according to orders.

243. He is to be careful that the magazines, yards, and passages are kept perfectly clean and free from vegetation, and that no dirt or rubbish is allowed to accumulate in the batteries.

244. He is to be present at the mounting and dismounting of ordnance. When no officer of the district is in charge of the party he will superintend and direct.

245. He is always to be present at the receipt and delivery of stores. He is to be careful that the district books are neatly and correctly kept, and always posted up to date.

246. He is always to accompany the officers in charge in their weekly visits. He will put the non-commissioned officers and men through the course of gunnery, as laid down. One district gunner is allowed for each 7-inch, and one for every two 64-pounder guns; this number is not to be exceeded.

ORDER OF PARADE AND DRESS FOR OFFICERS.

247. Review Order.—To be worn when the Governor is present, for escorts to the Governor and guards of honour at all State ceremonies, general Courts-martial, funerals, and otherwise when specially ordered.

248. Dress for Review Order.—Tunic, helmet with spike, dress sword-belt and sword-knot, dress pouch and pouch-belt, trousers with gold-lace stripe. Sabretache for mounted officers only. Horse furniture with shabraque, but without valise.

249. Marching Order.—To be worn on the line of march, at route-marching, in the field, district or garrison Courts-martial, and on other occasions when specially ordered.

250. Dress for Marching Order.—Same as in Review Order, but with undress belts, pouch, trousers with red stripe. For mounted officers: Pantaloons and high boots, undress sabretache. Horse furniture with valises, undress lambskins.

251. Field-day Order.—To be used generally for field-days, by garrison orderlies, mounted patrols, police in camp or garrison, and on other occasions when specially ordered. Dress same as for Marching Order. Horse furniture without valises.

DRESS OF MEN.

252. Review Order.—Full dress, no valise equipment.

253. Marching Order.—Full dress, complete kit and equipment.

254. Field-day Order.—The same as Review Order, but with frock instead of tunic.

255. Drill Order.—Undress helmet (when worn) without spike, chin-straps are to be worn under the chin, havresacks (when worn) to be slung across the right shoulder, when empty it may be carried in the valise; blacking only is to be used for cleaning the pouches. The great-coats and capes may be worn separately or both together. The service ammunition in time of peace is to be placed in the expense magazine, and not carried in the men’s pouches. Guards and escorts, or parties detached in aid of the civil power, will invariably have the requisite quantity of ammunition served out to them before going on duty. This supply is to be collected after the duty has been performed, and returned into the magazine.

256. The Officer Commanding the Permanent Militia will take the Queen’s Regulations and Customs of the Imperial Military Service as a guide in all matters not specifically dealt with in these regulations.

257. Officers will see that every man under their command is supplied with a copy of these regulations. Ignorance of the regulations will not be admitted as an excuse for the infringement of them.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General in Her Majesty’s Army, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven.

J. BALLANCE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Bunnythorpe Recreation-ground brought under “The Public Domains Act, 1881.”

Wm. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of May, 1887.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

BY virtue of the powers and authorities vested in me by the twenty-fourth section of “The Public Reserves