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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
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For Captain.—1, company drill; 2, testers; 3, practical.
For Major.—1, either electric lighting or signalling, whichever candidate has not previously passed in; 2, local scheme of submarine mining defence; 3, practical. (It must be stated on requisition form which, if either, of the two first-named subjects the candidate has already passed in.)

Mounted Rifle Volunteers.

For Lieutenant.—1, discipline; 2, duties (including care of horses and stable duties); 3, musketry; 4, drills; 5, practical (including signalling and equitation).
For Captain.—1, drills and tactics; 2, elementary military topography (including map-reading and field sketching); 3, practical. (2, optional.)
For Major.—1, duties in the field; 2, interior economy; 3, practical fitness for command.

Rifle Volunteers.

For Lieutenant.—1, discipline; 2, duties; 3, musketry; 4, drills; 5, practical (including signalling).
For Captain.—1, command of a company under all circumstances (including tactics); 2, elementary military topography (including map-reading and field sketching); 3, practical. (2 optional.)
For Major.—1, duties in the field; 2, interior economy; 3, practical fitness for command (including equitation).

Volunteer Cycle Corps.

For Lieutenant.—1, discipline; 2, duties; 3, musketry; 4, squad drill and cyclist drills; 5, information and reconnaissance; 6, field sketching; 7, practical (including signalling).

Volunteer Bearer Companies.

For Captain.—1, discipline; 2, duties; 3, drills; 4, practical.
For Major.—1, field training; 2, field hospital organization.
Pay- and Quarter-master.—1, discipline; 2, duties. The special duties of quartermasters are very comprehensive, comprising transport, rations and forage, cooking, pitching and striking camps, sanitary arrangements, water-supply, system of keeping accounts of money and stores, transport by land and sea, duties on mobilisation. (N.B.—An officer who has served as quartermaster for five years will be entitled to be appointed captain; but a quartermaster so appointed captain shall not be entitled to be appointed subsequently to the command of a battery or company unless or until he has passed the prescribed examination for a captain for the particular branch of the service.)

1. The maximum marks obtainable in each subject will be 100, and the minimum number of marks required to pass will be forty in each subject, and an average of sixty in the whole.
2. Failure in any one subject means failure in the whole examination.
3. An officer who obtains an aggregate of 0·75 marks (including optional subjects), together with 0·5 in each subject, will have S (Special) placed after his name in the New Zealand Army List; and should he obtain an aggregate of 0·80, together with 0·5 in each subject, he will have D (Distinguished) placed after his name in the New Zealand Army List.
4. Officers who have already passed for a junior rank will be required to pass only in the subjects for the senior rank.
5. Artillery questions will be set to suit the particular nature of ordnance which is in use by the corps to which the candidate belongs.
6. Officers of position artillery will be examined as for field artillery, with modifications to suit the armament and equipment on charge.
7. Officers of field artillery, garrison artillery, and engineers will have the option of taking either the artillery or infantry portion of their examinations at any of the quarterly examinations held during the period of their acting-appointments.
8. N.C.O.s may apply to be examined for the rank of lieutenant at any quarterly examination. A certificate that an N.C.O. has passed for the rank of lieutenant in a particular arm will entitle him to exemption from further examination for that rank and arm for three years from date of such certificate.

BOOKS RECOMMENDED.

All Arms.

"The King’s Regulations" (in so far as they apply to New Zealand Forces); "Defence Act and Volunteer Regulations"; "Regulations and Instructions for Camps and Cantonments"; "Notes from Lectures by Lieut.-Colonel R. H. Owen."

Field Artillery.

"Field Artillery Training"; "Instructions for Practice"; "Handbook for Gun"; "Handbook for Field Range-finding"; "Treatise on Ammunition"; "Field Artillery Service Handbook"; "Tactics of Field Artillery"; "Infantry Manual."

Garrison Artillery.

"Garrison Artillery Training"; "Handbook for Guns in Use"; "Treatise on Ammunition"; "Regulations for Magazines"; "Handbook of Depression Range-finder"; "Fort Record-book of Work to be manned"; "Infantry Manual."

Field Engineers.

"Signalling Instructions"; "Manual of Military Engineering"; "Infantry Manual."

Submarine Miners.

"Manual of Submarine Mining"; "Infantry Manual."

Mounted Rifles.

"Manual for Mounted Rifles"; "Regulations and Instructions for Camps and Cantonments"; "Manual of Military Topography"; "Signalling Instructions."

Rifles.

"Infantry Manual"; "Regulations and Instructions for Camps and Cantonments"; "Manual of Military Topography"; "Signalling Instructions."

Cyclists.

"Infantry Manual"; "Cyclists’ Training Manual"; "Signalling Instructions"; "Field Sketching."

Bearers Companies.

"Manual for the Royal Army Medical Corps."

Quartermasters.

"Manual of Military Cooking"; "Standing Orders for Mobilisation"; "Supply Handbook for Imperial Army Service Corps"; "Regulations and Instructions for Camps and Cantonments."

The use of "The King’s Regulations" will be allowed during examination in discipline.

NEW ZEALAND VOLUNTEER FORCE.

MILITARY EXAMINATIONS OF NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.

Syllabus.—All Arms.

1. Discipline.—1, general instructions; 2, general knowledge of Defence Act and Volunteer Regulations.
2. Duties.—1, roster of duties; 2, guards and sentries; 3, duties of non-commissioned officers in garrison and in the field. (N.C.O.s of each arm will, in addition, be examined in the special duties of that particular arm.)
3. Musketry (field artillery excepted).—1, general knowledge of the rifle and ammunition; 2, precautions at rifle ranges; 3, rifle and firing exercises; 4, judging-distance practice.
4. Practical.—Every non-commissioned officer must, according to his rank, show his ability to command in the field a section of the particular arm of the service to which he belongs.

Field Artillery Volunteers, all Ranks.

1, discipline; 2, duties; 3, gunnery and ammunition; 4, material; 5, care of horses; 6, fire discipline; 7, practical.

Garrison Artillery Volunteers, all Ranks.

1, discipline; 2, duties; 3, musketry; 4, squad drill; 5, gunnery and ammunition; 6, material; 7, range-finding and fort-manning; 8, practical.

Field Engineer Volunteers, all Ranks.

1, discipline; 2, duties; 3, musketry; 4, squad drill; 5, shelter-trench exercise; 6, elementary military engineering; 7, signalling; 8, practical.

Submarine Mining Volunteers, all Ranks.

1, discipline; 2, duties; 3, musketry; 4, squad drill; 5, submarine mining; 6, testing; 7, electric lighting (for electric-light section only); 8, practical.

Mounted Rifle Volunteers, all Ranks.

1, discipline; 2, duties (including care of horses, and stable duties); 3, musketry; 4, squad drill; 5, practical.

Rifle Volunteers, all Ranks.

1, discipline; 2, duties; 3, musketry; 4, squad drill; 5, practical.