1296
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 52.

345. Whenever any Volunteer unit or company which is about to be disbanded is indebted to the Government, the amount due by it must be paid to the Colonial Treasurer by the O.C. before it is disbanded.

346. No claim for capitation shall be admitted for any company whose strength is below the minimum establishment on the last day of the Volunteer year.

347. No claim for capitation shall be admitted for any company unless three-fourths of the minimum strength qualify therefor as herein provided.

348. Applications for advance of capitation shall not be considered unless under urgent circumstances, which must be indorsed by the O.C. the District, and in no case can they be entertained until the Defence estimates for the financial year have been passed by Parliament.

349. Capitation allowance is not granted to officers holding honorary rank except quartermasters, nor to unattached officers or officers on the retired list.

350. Any officer making a false return, whether from fraud or negligence, will be liable to dismissal from the Force, and to the penalty provided for by section 108 of the Defence Act.

351. Nominal and capitation rolls of units or companies are to be prepared according to ranks and in alphabetical order.

352. Capitation rolls, whether the corps is efficient or non-efficient, are to be made out in duplicate, one for transmission to the Under-Secretary for Defence, and the other for record in the District Office.

353. The several headings in the capitation roll are to be correctly and carefully filled in, and each roll is to be accompanied by a Treasury contingency voucher made out in favour of the unit or company, which is to be signed by the O.C. as applicant, and certified to by the O.C. the District. Any charges debited against capitation are to be deducted in the body of the voucher from the amount earned, and the balance thus remaining will represent the sum the unit or company shall be entitled to receive.

354. Capitation rolls, after being carefully checked, accompanied by the annual account of receipts and expenditure referred to in Regulation No. 341, are to be transmitted by the O.C. the District to the Under-Secretary for Defence not later than the 31st March in each year.

355. Forms of capitation rolls, &c., will be supplied on application to the District Office.

Qualification for earning Capitation.

Class Firing.

356. All branches and ranks of the Volunteer Force (excepting officers above the rank of captain, all medical and veterinary officers, and pay and quartermasters, field hospital and bearer companies and garrison and battalion bands, trumpeters or buglers) must pass the annual course of class firing as laid down in “Target Practice.”

357. If for two successive years a Volunteer fails to pass into the second class in the annual course of target practice, he shall cease to be a Volunteer after the termination of his third year.

Recruits.

358. Recruits on enrolment, who have not previously received a military training, shall be formed into squads, and to qualify for capitation must attend at least thirty hours’ recruit drill, exclusive of target practice. Artillery recruits must attend ten hours extra at gun-drill. When two or more companies are in the same locality, the recruits of the different companies shall be drilled together; and shall, if so ordered by the O.C. the district, go into the annual camp of instruction.

359. When reported proficient in their drills they shall be passed by an officer or N.C.O. of the Permanent Staff, and shall then be entitled to receive a certificate of efficiency, which will carry with it capitation for the Volunteer year in which they are enrolled; provided that the period under instruction has not exceeded six months, and that target practice as laid down has been completed.

360. Men who have been discharged from the Volunteer Force after being efficient for three years may, on the production of their discharge, be enrolled in a unit or company of the same branch of