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(b.) Company drill in close and extended order, including a
thorough knowledge of the position and duties of
markers.*
(c.) Duties of a commander of a guard and the posting
and relief of sentries.
(d.) Carbine or short-rifle exercises.
(e.) Be able to fill in a parade state, guard report, target
practice and judging-distance registers, and to write
orders from dictation.
(f.) Aiming and position drill, and a thorough acquaintance
of orders to be observed on rifle ranges.
99. Members of corps of special arms will be further
examined on such practical points as may be deemed necessary
by a Board consisting of a member of the staff, and such officers
or members of the force as may be appointed.
100. A non-commissioned officer may be at any time deprived
of his rank for incapacity or misconduct by the Officer Com-
manding the District.

Corps.

101. Volunteer corps of all arms will be classified as fol-
     lows:—
     (a.) "Honorary Reserve corps," the members of which will
     not receive capitation or any other pecuniary allowance,
     will provide their own arms, accoutrements, and ammu-
     nition, and will be permitted to draw up special private
     rules for the general management and discipline of their
     corps; provided such rules are not repugnant to the
     provisions of the Defence Act then in force, and are
     submitted for the approval of His Excellency the
     Governor.
     (b.) Volunteer corps, the members of which will be entitled
     to capitation.
     (c.) Honorary corps (the members of which are to be clothed
     in accordance with the Volunteer Dress Regulations) will
     be provided with arms, accoutrements, and ammunition,
     but will receive no capitation or other pecuniary allow-
     ances. Officers Commanding these corps will order such
     drills as they may deem necessary. Government inspec-
     tion parades will be held quarterly (one of which will
     be on Her Majesty's Birthday) under the orders of the
     Officer Commanding the District.

Parades.

102. All Government parades, drills, and duties will be fixed
     by the Officer Commanding the District, and he will be pre-
     viously informed by Officers Commanding Corps of all other
     parades under arms for drill purposes which they may deem
     requisite. No other assemblies of Volunteers under arms, for
     ceremonial or any purpose except as above, will be permitted
     without sanction previously obtained from the Officer Com-
     manding District. Special authority must be obtained from the
     Defence Office for holding any parade which will entail
     expense, either in transport or otherwise. A Government
     parade is to be of two hours duration, of which not less than
     one hour is to be devoted to actual drill or exercise.
103. The Officer Commanding the District may order such
     other parades as he may consider necessary, and should arrange
     to have as many Government drill parades as possible completed
     during the summer months, as parades held during the winter
     can be regarded as of little practical value except for the
     inspection of arms and accoutrements.
104. An Officer Commanding a District may, at any time,
     under the authority of the Government, order a parade of any
     Volunteer corps for the purposes of any State ceremony.
105. It is competent for the Officer Commanding on parade to
     direct any officer to assume the command for the purpose of
     drill.
106. The hours and places of assembly for drills, &c., shall
     be fixed and made known to corps, and any subsequent altera-
     tion duly notified.
107. 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.
108. The strictest punctuality is to be observed by all ranks
     in attending parades and other duties; and no Volunteer is to
     fall in after his corps has been formed up, except by special
     permission of the senior officer present on parade.
109. 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 for that parade.
110. Officers and men of the Volunteer Force, when carrying
     arms, even though not strictly on duty—as at shooting matches
     or other occasions connected with rifle practice—will be under
     the authority of the senior officer or non-commissioned officer
     present, and will be liable to the provision of clause 47, sub-
     section 4, of "The Defence Act, 1886;" but though the senior
     officer present will be held responsible for the maintenance of

• Not compulsory for Corporals, but, if not examined then, they must
  pass in these subjects before promotion to rank of Sergeant.

order and discipline, yet he is not hereby authorised to interfere
in other respects.
111. 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.
112. At the termination of any parade, drill, or practice, for
which ammunition has been issued, before leaving the ground
arms and pouches are to be examined, and the men ordered to
deliver up any ammunition which may not have been expended.
Commanding Officers of Corps will be held responsible that this
regulation is strictly carried out, and will report to the senior
officer present that this order has been complied with.
113. None but enrolled members, properly dressed in uni-
form, will be permitted to accompany a Volunteer corps at any
parade, field-day, or review.

Rules.

114. In order to give legal force to the rules proposed by a
     Volunteer corps for the management of its affairs, they must be
     submitted by the Officer Commanding the District to the De-
     fence Office, for the approval of the Governor.
115. A model set of rules is given in Appendix A for the
     guidance of corps; but other sets of rules will not necessarily
     be objected to.
116. Rules of Volunteer corps, which are to be forwarded
     for submission to the Governor, shall be transmitted in dupli-
     cate; one copy being for retention by the Government, the other
     to be returned to the corps.
117. The model rules given in the Appendix shall be deemed
     to apply to all Volunteer corps till such corps has submitted
     and obtained the Governor's approval to a set of private rules.
118. A copy of the rules in force in a corps is to be given to
     each member on enrolment for his guidance and information,
     but the non-delivery of such copy shall not relieve a Volun-
     teer from any penalty under the Defence Act, for the breach of
     regulations or rules.

Capitation and Pay.

119. A capitation allowance at the rate appropriated annually
     by Parliament will be granted for all trained members of Vol-
     unteer corps (who are entitled to draw the same) who have
     attended the drills and musketry course as under. The number
     of Government parades in any one year shall not exceed thirty
     (including the Queen's Birthday, but exclusive of those which
     may be held at the Easter encampment), of which the under-
     mentioned must be attended to qualify for capitation:—

Corps within a radius of ten miles of the four centres
of population and mounted corps.

Naval Artillery.

The drills of these corps at the four centres will be princi-
pally confined to heavy gun, submarine mining, and boat
drills, and, to qualify for capitation, eighteen drills must be
attended by trained men as under:—
Four infantry drills, including aiming and position drills,
at which not less than two-thirds of the strength of the
corps, exclusive of officers, must be present;
Fourteen heavy-gun drills, at which not less than two full
gun detachments must be present; or
Fourteen submarine mining drills, four of which may be
boat drills, at which not less than twenty-six men must
be present.

Cavalry and Mounted Infantry.

Mounted Volunteers will parade each year for training twice
a day for six consecutive days, or for two half-yearly trainings
of three days each, at which not less than two-thirds of the
corps must be present. When corps elect for six days' con-
secutive training, the Officer Commanding the District will
arrange during the intervening half-year for an inspection of all
Government property on issue to the corps, which shall be at
a dismounted parade.
No member of a mounted corps will be entitled to capitation
unless he has attended the full period of training. Aiming and
position drills to be carried out during the training of corps.

Garrison Artillery—Batteries.

Heavy-gun drills, and infantry drills, same as Naval Artillery
corps.

Field Artillery—Batteries.

Six daylight battery drills, at which not less than a full
detachment for each gun on issue to the corps must be present.
Eight gun drills, at which not less than two full gun de-
tachments must be present.
Four company or squad drills, including aiming and position
drills, at which not less than two-thirds of the strength of the
corps, exclusive of officers, must be present.

Engineers.

Eight infantry drills, including aiming and position drills,
at which not less than two-thirds of the strength of the corps,
exclusive of officers, must be present.