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(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.

Volunteer Cycle Corps, all Ranks.

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

Volunteer Bearer Companies, all Ranks.

1, discipline; 2, duties; 3, drills; 4, practical.

Quartermaster-Sergeants.

1, discipline; 2, duties. The special duties of quartermaster-sergeants are very comprehensive, comprising a general knowledge of transport, rations and forage, cooking, pitching and striking tents and marquees, sanitary arrangements, water-supply, correspondence, system of keeping accounts of money and stores, transport by railway and sea.

110. (1.) The maximum marks obtainable in each subject of the foregoing examination for N.C.Os. will be 100, and the minimum number of marks required to pass will be—For corporal, forty in each subject, and an average of fifty in the whole; for sergeant, forty in each subject, and an average of sixty in the whole.

(2.) Failure in any one subject means failure in the whole examination.

Books recommended.

111. The books recommended for officers are, in as far as they are applicable, also recommended for non-commissioned officers.

MEDICAL CORPS.

112. All medical officers shall be formed into a corps to be called the “New Zealand Medical Corps.”

113. (1.) The rank of officers in the New Zealand Medical Corps shall be as follows: Surgeon-general, surgeon-lieutenant-colonel, surgeon-major, and surgeon-captain.

(2.) The status of medical officers holding commissions at the time these regulations come into force shall remain unaltered, but thereafter commissions to medical officers shall be given and issued for the New Zealand Medical Corps; their names shall be kept on a general list, from which list all appointments and promotions shall be made.

114. The Surgeon-general shall be responsible for the efficiency of the corps, and that all persons recommended for commissions

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