June 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1403

First year—recruits’ course: Subjects 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, and 11. Second year: Subjects 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, and 12. Third and subsequent years: Subjects 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13.

SUBJECTS.—1. Introduction. 2. Principles of signalling, &c. 3. Apparatus, &c., and methods of using it. 4. Message-form. 5. The counting, signalling, &c. 6. Signal-stations, duties, &c. 7. Station calls, &c. 8. Completion of the message-form. 9. Tactical application of the signalling. 10. Map-reading. 11. Signalling between navy and army. 12. Instructions in use of cipher. 13. Test messages and returns.

MOUNTED RIFLE VOLUNTEERS.

Members who qualify and pass prescribed examination in signalling, as laid down herein, will be permitted to wear a distinguishing badge; and the four most proficient in each company will receive a personal payment of £1 each for current year.

The twenty members who, in qualifying for a marksman’s badge, as elsewhere provided, make the highest score in their company will receive personal payment of 10s. each for current year; and the highest score in the battalion will receive an additional payment of 10s.

INFANTRY AND CYCLIST VOLUNTEERS.

Members who qualify and pass prescribed examination in signalling, as laid down herein, will be permitted to wear a distinguishing badge; and the four most proficient in each corps will receive a personal payment of £1 each for current year.

The sixteen members of any rifle corps, and the six members of any cycle corps, who, in qualifying for a marksman’s badge, as elsewhere provided, make the highest score in their company, will receive a personal payment of 10s. each for current year; and the highest score in the battalion will receive an additional personal payment of 10s.

SYLLABUS FOR SIGNALLING (EXCEPT FIELD ENGINEERS).

The subjects of examination for men qualifying in signalling are: A practical examination only will be held, a minimum rate of four words a minute for sending and receiving “service” messages by day and night on all signalling instruments for the time being laid down as equipment for the several arms or corps, with a percentage of accuracy of 93 on each instrument.

CADET VOLUNTEERS.

Ten marksman’s badges will be issued to the cadets who make the highest scores in each company in the annual target practice; and a personal payment of 5s. will be made to each of the five marksmen making the highest scores.

VOLUNTEER BEARER COMPANIES AND BANDS.

Members who pass the examination as laid down from time to time for bearer corps, and who are recommended by P.M.O. of district, will be permitted to wear a distinguishing badge; and the eight most proficient in a bearer company, and the three most efficient men in a garrison or battalion band, will receive a personal payment of £1 each for current year.

Efficient members of such batteries or companies of Artillery Volunteers as qualify in their yearly competitive practice as first-class batteries or companies will be permitted to wear a badge, provided they were present at, and took part in, such practice.

Any Volunteer who has been returned as efficient for capitation for three consecutive years will be permitted to wear a badge, and those who have been returned as efficient for nine consecutive years will be granted a “distinguished” badge.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and three.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

Battery “Establishment,” Field Artillery Volunteers, cancelled, and fresh “Establishment” laid down.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by “The Defence Act, 1886,” and the amending Act, 1900, it is amongst other things enacted that the Governor may from time to time make, alter, or revoke regulations respecting the enrolment, promotion, discipline, training, exercise, arms, accoutrements, clothing, equipment, conveyance, pay, rations, and lodging of the forces, or any portion thereof, and respecting the several other matters in the said Act mentioned: And whereas on the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, certain regulations were made under the said Act, which were published in the New Zealand Gazette of the thirtieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine: And whereas it is now expedient to cancel the maximum and minimum “establishment” laid down in such last-mentioned regulations for six-gun batteries of Field Artillery Volunteers, and to substitute in lieu thereof the “establishment” laid down in the Schedule hereto:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the above-recited power and authority, do hereby cancel the “establishment” for six-gun batteries of Field Artillery Volunteers made on the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, and in lieu thereof do hereby make and prescribe for such batteries the “establishment” set forth in the Schedule hereto:

And I do further declare that the “establishment” hereby made shall come into force on and from the first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and three.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and three.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Defence.

C.F. 03/252.]

Trustees for the Kuaotunu Public Cemetery appointed.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested in me by the sixth section of “The Cemeteries Act, 1882,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint the several persons whose names are specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto to be Trustees to provide for the maintenance and care of the public cemetery specified in the second column of the said Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this thirteenth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and three.

T. Y. DUNCAN,
Minister of Lands.