704
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 29

166A. The Medical Board assembled for the examination of Bearer corps may recommend annually the two most proficient men in the corps for badges.

167. These badges, with the exception of badges for gun-laying for field batteries, will carry a personal payment of £1. Any man who can produce three consecutive badges will be awarded a distinguishing badge and allowed a further sum of £1. The badges to be worn for the year only for which they are earned.

168. Naval, Garrison, or Field Artillery, and Submarine Mining Volunteer corps at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Dunedin, and Port Chalmers will go into camp of instruction at the works of defence for sixteen days each year, receiving an allowance of 1s. 6d. per diem per man in camp.

170A. Bearer corps may, for an annual camp of instruction, be attached for six days to any company of the headquarters battalion during its annual camp, and will receive the same allowance.

170B. The Cycle corps may, for an annual camp of instruction, be attached for six days to any company of the headquarters battalion during its annual camp, and will receive the same allowances.

225. Ammunition in the following annual proportions, to be reckoned from the commencement of the Volunteer year, will be allowed to Volunteers of the several arms without payment, on the condition that it be expended within the year under the command and supervision of a commissioned officer in Artillery corps and of an officer or non-commissioned officer in other corps. The full annual allowance must be requisitioned for before the last quarter of the Volunteer year. The annual proportions are:—

Heavy ordnance ammunition,—
For Naval or Garrison Artillery Volunteers, such allowance as may be from time to time authorised by the Defence Minister.

Field-gun ammunition,—

For Artillery Volunteers who have field-guns, 20 rounds per Gun Detachment,
not exceeding six detachments per corps (bandsmen not included)

No. of Rounds.
(9-pdr. R.B.L.: 12 shrapnel,
7 common or segment or solid
(solid only to be issued when
practice is carried out over
sea-ranges), 1 case.
6-pdr. Q.F.: 14 shrapnel, 5 common, 1 case.

An allowance of 25 rounds per man of Maxim ball ammunition will be made to squads of Volunteers who are trained in Maxim-gun drill.

Small-arms ammunition*,—
For every enrolled member (except reserve) .. .. .. .. 150 ball.

* Of this allowance 50 rounds per man will be issued under the authority and for purposes approved of by the Officer Commanding the District.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

T. THOMPSON,
Minister of Defence.

[D. 98/1848.]

Lands permanently reserved.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

And whereas by the two-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the warrant the date of which is specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notification of which was published in the Gazette specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Act for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby permanently reserve the lands so temporarily reserved as aforesaid, and enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, being the same purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands,