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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 18

N.C.O.s.—Company drill; manual and firing exercises; duties of G.G.C. of a group of B.L., R.M.L., and Q.F. guns; ranging with Q.F. guns; ranging without the aid of D.R.F.; drill of a squad with any nature of gun in the district.

2. Armament.

Officers.—Taking to pieces, putting together, and description and action of 6 pr. Q.F. breech mechanism, 12 pr. Q.F. breech mechanism, 6 in. B.L. breech mechanism, Maxim gun breech mechanism; description and action of H.P. cylinders, hydraulic buffers, elevating- and traversing-gears; testing level of racers; care of electric firing-gear, of dials, and D.R.F. instruments.

N.C.O.s.—Taking to pieces and putting together, and description and action of 6 pr. Q.F. breech mechanism, 12 pr. Q.F. breech mechanism, 6 in. B.L. breech mechanism; description and action of H.P. cylinders, hydraulic buffers, elevating- and traversing-gears; testing level of racers; care of electric firing-gear, of dials, and D.R.F. instruments.

3. Ammunition.

Officers.—Instructing in ammunition in use in the colony.
N.C.O.s.—Ammunition in use in the colony.

4. Miscellaneous.

Officers.—Instructing in gunnery and gunnery terms; testing gun-layers; tactical exercises in coast defence; material and appliances; elementary instruction.

N.C.O.s.—Gunnery and gunnery terms; material and appliances; elementary instruction.

Lectures to Garrison Artillery (Officers and N.C.O.s).

In addition to practical instruction in the above, the following subjects will be dealt with fully in lectures as convenient: Gunnery, theoretical, &c.; ammunition in use in the colony; material and appliances; care of ordnance, ammunition, instruments, &c.; coast defence, organization; fort record and fighting books; manning and fighting a battery command; manning and fighting Q.F. guns; criticism of practice reports; artillery practice and observations of fire; defence of mine-fields by night; tactical exercises in coast defence applied to local scheme.

FIELD ARTILLERY.

Officers.—Standing-gun drill; section gun-drill; drill of the battery, mounted and dismounted; laying with both tangent and Scott’s telescopic sight; use of aiming-posts; range-finding with mekometer; battery foot-drill, by fours and by divisions; general description of guns, carriages, ammunition, and stores; manual and firing exercises; field movements; fire discipline and ranging; riding; passage of obstacles; duties of battery and section commanders.

N.C.O.s.—Standing-gun drill; section gun-drill; laying both tangent and Scott’s telescopic sight; use of aiming-posts; range-finding with mekometer; battery foot-drill by fours; general description of guns, carriages, ammunition, and stores; manual and firing exercises; knotting and lashing; riding.

Lectures to Field Artillery (Officers and N.C.O.s).

The following subjects will be dealt with in lectures: Gunnery terms and theoretical gunnery; ammunition in use in colony for field guns; care of ordnance, ammunition, and stores; field artillery tactics and fire discipline; criticism of practice reports; field artillery practice; management of horses; details of artillery, harness, and equipment.

INFANTRY AND MOUNTED RIFLES.

1. Drills.

Officers.—Company drill; command of company in battalion drill.

N.C.O.s.—Squad drill; command of section in company drill.

2. Exercises.

Officers.—Manœuvres of a company; infantry in attack and defence; general principles; the company in attack.

N.C.O.s.—Manœuvres of section or half-company; infantry in attack and defence; general principles; the company in attack.

3. Musketry Instruction.

4. Miscellaneous.

Officers.—Maxim gun drill on infantry carriage; guards; shelter trench and pit exercises; judging distances; range-finding.

N.C.O.s.—Maxim gun drill on infantry carriage; guards; shelter trench and pit exercises; judging distances; range-finding.

CYCLE CORPS.

Officers and N.C.O.s.—Cycle drill in substitution for infantry drill.

(c.) DUTIES IN THE FIELD FOR ALL ARMS.

1. Military Engineering.

Officers.—(1) General principles of fortification; (2) arms and projectiles; (3) hasty entrenchments, shelter trenches and pits, gun-pits and epaulement stockades; (4) obstacles; (5) brushwood; (6) revetments; (7) field redoubts and defilade; (8) improving existing cover; (9) defence of villages and woods; (10) knotting and lashing; (11) military bridges; (12) passage of rivers; (13) camping arrangements, water-supply, bivouacs, kitchens, ovens, thatching, &c.; (14) hasty demolitions with and without explosives.

N.C.O.s.—(1) General principles of fortification; (2) arms and projectiles; (3) hasty entrenchments, shelter trenches and pits, gun-pits and stockades; (4) obstacles; (5) brushwood; (6) revetments; (7) improving existing cover; (8) knotting and lashing; (9) camping arrangements, water-supply, bivouacs, kitchens, ovens, thatching, &c.; (10) hasty demolitions with and without explosives.

2. Military Topography.

Officers.—(1) Conventional signs; (2) terms used in describing the natural features of the ground; (3) system of representing hill features by contours; (4) construction of scale of horizontal equivalents, relation of heights to distances; (5) drawing section of hills from a contoured surface; (6) making use of maps in the field, identifying distant points, finding the place on the map corresponding to observer’s position; (7) hasty field-sketching and reports on positions.

N.C.O.s.—(1) Conventional signs; (2) terms used in describing the natural features of the ground; (3) making use of maps in the field, identifying distant points, finding the place on the map corresponding to observer’s position; (4) hasty field-sketching and reports on positions.

3. Tactics.

Officers.—(1) Tactics and strategy defined; (2) outposts; (3) reconnoitring; (4) space and time required for formations; (5) advanced and rear guards and flanking parties; (6) characteristics of the various arms; (7) ground in relation to tactics; (8) principles of employment of infantry, mounted infantry, artillery; (9) principles of attack and defence; (10) effects on tactics of modern improvements in firearms; (11) marches; (12) rivers; (13) defiles; (14) woods and villages; (15) convoys; (16) lessons second Boer war applied to tactics.

N.C.O.s.—(1) Tactics and strategy defined; (2) outposts; (3) reconnoitring; (4) advanced and rear guards and flanking parties; (5) characteristics of the various arms; (6) ground in relation to tactics; (7) principles of attack and defence; (8) effect on tactics of modern improvements in firearms; (9) rivers; (10) defiles; (11) woods and villages; (12) lessons of second Boer war applied to tactics.

4. Infantry Fire Tactics.

(Engineers, Infantry, and Mounted Rifles only).

Officers.—(1) Individual fire; (2) trajectories and limits of fire; (3) rapidity of fire; (4) collective fire; (5) fire discipline and control and direction of fire units or groups; (6) supply of ammunition in the battlefield.

N.C.O.s.—(1) Individual fire; (2) trajectories and limits of fire; (3) rapidity of fire; (4) collective fire; (5) fire discipline and control and direction of fire units or groups; (6) supply of ammunition in the battlefield.

APPLICATION FORM.

School of Military Instruction.

For the course commencing on………………, 19 .

Recommended :
…………, commanding…………Corps.
…………, commanding…………District.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

59. Officers will not be permitted to pass the examination for promotion to the next higher rank until they have completed three years’ service in their own rank, unless for the purpose of actual promotion, except as provided for in the regulations of the School of Military Instruction.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and two.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

[C.F. 43.]