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1 officer’s sword with sling and knot if there are 24 cadets, 2 if 48 cadets, 3 if 72 cadets, and so on ; but not more than 5 to any school.
Rank-badges for non-commissioned officers, as required.
1 bugle for each corps.
50 ball cartridges per cadet per annum.
21. Caps with badges, and haversacks, will be supplied at 2s. each respectively, and extra ammunition at cost price.
22. Rifles are to kept clean, dry, and in good order, and after use must be placed safely in racks provided for them. The miniature rifles must be cleaned by means of the “pull-through” after firing at each range, and on completion of the firing each rifle must be thoroughly cleaned before leaving the firing-point, and a piece of flannelette smeared with vaseline run through the barrel; the lock-action and barrel also must be rubbed over with vaseline in order to prevent erosion. The miniature rifles must be kept locked up, and are not to be used except for target practice or for teaching the firing exercise. Neither miniature nor model rifles may be taken from the precincts of the schools except for an authorised parade or manœuvre.
23. The ammunition issued for ball practice is to be expended as follows—viz., five rounds each at the 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500 yard ranges respectively; and to be fired standing at 100 yards, kneeling at 200 yards, sitting at 300 yards, and lying down at 400 and 500 yards. At all target practice and rifle matches every precaution must be taken to prevent accident, and the senior officer present on the range will be responsible to see that this is done. A bugler must be present at all times when ball-firing takes place. The number of ball cartridges issued at any one time to a cadet shall on no account be more than the number to be actually expended at a particular range, and the officer in charge shall see that every cartridge is accounted for.
24. Uniforms shall be of a pattern approved by the Minister.
25. To qualify for capitation a cadet corps must have fulfilled the following conditions :—
(a.) It must have held during the school year at least twenty-four daylight parades for drill, not more than four of which have been battalion parades: provided that if it forms part of a battalion it must have attended not less than two battalion parades during the year.
(b.) Each such parade must have been attended by at least two-thirds of the enrolled strength.
(c.) At each such parade the time devoted to actual drill shall not have been less than forty minutes.
(d.) The parades must as a rule have been held in the open air, the exceptions, on account of bad weather or other circumstances, not being more than twelve.
26. Capitation will be paid in respect of each officer or cadet who has attended during the school year not less than sixteen parades held in accordance with clause 25 hereof.
27. Immediately after the close of a school year the officer commanding a cadet corps will forward to the Education Board of the district, for transmission to the Department, the nominal and descriptive roll of the corps for the year, and the original parade roll from which the entries therein are made. The nominal and descriptive roll is to be indorsed with a statement of the claim for capitation, and a certificate that the requirements of these regulations have been fulfilled.
28. Capitation may be expended in the purchase of uniforms or for such other purposes in connection with the corps as the officer commanding the same may think fit.
29. The commanding officer of every cadet corps shall cause a full and correct account to be kept of the receipts and expenditure of the funds of the corps, and shall submit the same when required to an auditor appointed by the Education Board of the district.
30. Any cadet corps unfavourably reported upon on two successive occasions may be disbanded, and the Government property in its possession called in.
31. An officer must be in possession of a uniform before being provided with sword, sling, and knot.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and four.

R. J. SEDDON,
Minister of Education.

President of the Court of Arbitration appointed.

RANFURLY, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by “The Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900,” I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby appoint

His Honour FREDERICK REVANS CHAPMAN,

a Judge of the Supreme Court of the said colony, to be the President of the Arbitration Court constituted by the said “Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act, 1900.” Appointment to date from the 20th February, 1904.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this third day of February, one thousand nine hundred and four.

WM. HALL-JONES.

Officers under the Fisheries Conservation Acts appointed, Canterbury.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 12th February, 1904.

IT is hereby notified that

CHARLES ALFRED OWEN, of Scargill ;
JOHN SHARPE, of Scargill ; and
ROBERT HENRY DUNCAN FERGUSSON, of Scargill,

have been appointed to be Officers for the purposes of “The Fisheries Conservation Act, 1884,” and the Acts amending the same.

J. G. WARD.

Appointment of Vice-Consul-General of the United States of America, at Auckland, recognised.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 12th February, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that he has been instructed by His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies to recognise the appointment of

LEONARD A. BACHELDER, Esq.,

as Vice-Consul-General of the United States of America at Auckland.

J. G. WARD.

Rangers under the Animals Protection Acts, Canterbury District, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 13th February, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

CHARLES ALFRED OWEN,
JOHN SHARPE, and
ROBERT HENRY DUNCAN FERGUSSON

to be Rangers under “The Animals Protection Act, 1880,” and the Acts amending the same, for the District of Canterbury.

J. G. WARD.

Inspector of Weights and Measures, Counties of Opotiki and Whakatane, appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 13th February, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

Sergeant MAXWELL WALKER

to be an Inspector of Weights and Measures under “The Weights and Measures Act, 1903,” for the Counties of Whakatane and Opotiki.

J. G. WARD.

Deputy Registrars of Marriages, &c., appointed.

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 15th February, 1904.

HIS Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the undermentioned gentlemen to be the Deputies of the Registrars of Marriages and of Births and Deaths for the districts set respectively opposite their names, viz. :—

Name. District.
RICHARD SIMMONDS .. .. .. Coromandel.
VALDEMAR RODE ANDERSON .. .. Mahurangi.

J. G. WARD.