1274
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 52

questions may be asked. The maximum marks for each exercise or
manœuvre will be fixed by the examining Officers, but the aggregate
must not exceed 100. These marks are to be entered and totalled
in the column for that purpose.

(m.) In the case of Field Artillery and Garrison Artillery Officers
the examining Officer may ask such questions as may seem to him
to meet the circumstances of the case; the maximum marks to be
as for other arms.

MILITARY EXAMINATION OF OFFICERS.

106. The subjects for examination of officers shall be as mentioned below:—

All Arms.

(1.) Discipline.—General instructions; administration of discipline; Courts of inquiry; general knowledge of the King’s Regulations, New Zealand Defence Act, and Volunteer Regulations.

(2.) Duties.—Roster of duties; duties in garrison and in the field; honours and salutes; guards and sentries; military funerals. (Officers of each arm will in addition be examined in the special duties of that particular arm.)

(3.) Musketry (field artillery excepted).—General knowledge of the rifle and ammunition; precautions at rifle ranges; course of target practice; conduct of field firing; judging-distance practice.

(4.) Practical.—Every candidate must, according to his rank, show his ability to command in the field a unit of the particular arm of the service to which he belongs.

Field Artillery Volunteers.

For Lieutenant.—1, discipline; 2, duties; 3, equipment; 4, gunnery and ammunition; 5, range-finding and fire discipline; 6, practical (mounted and dismounted), including equitation.

For Captain.—1, employment of artillery in the field; 2, practical.

For Major.—1, practice reports; 2, tactics of field artillery; 3, practical.

Garrison Artillery Volunteers.

For Lieutenant.—1, discipline; 2, duties; 3, musketry; 4, drills; 5, gunnery and ammunition; 6, range-finding and service of ordnance; 7, practical (including infantry drill).

For Captain.—1, practice reports; 2, coast defence (which comprises all matters connected with fighting a battery command); 3, practical.

For Major.—1, coast-defence tactics; 2, practical.

For Lieutenant-Colonel.—The duties of a fire commander in organizing his command in peace and fighting it in war.

Field Engineer Volunteers.

For Lieutenant.—1, discipline; 2, duties; 3, musketry; 4, drills; 5, signalling; 6, military engineering; 7, practical (N.B.—It will be optional for candidates to pass in either 5 or 6.)

For Captain.—1, military engineering and signalling; 2, practical.

For Major.—1, defence of localities; 2, practical.

Submarine Mining Volunteers.

For Lieutenant.—1, discipline; 2, duties; 3, musketry; 4, drills; 5, submarine mining; 6, testers; 7, electric lighting; 8, signalling; 9, practical. (N.B.—Candidates must take 5, and either 7 or 8, whichever they choose, the paper chosen to be stated on requisition form.)

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).