✨ Military Horse Hiring Allowance Regulations
JUNE 1.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1301
(6.) Major commanding a district or battalion, £1 1s. per diem,
with forage for one horse.
(7.) Major of a battalion, 18s. per diem, and forage for one
horse.
(8.) Captain, 15s. per diem.
(9.) Lieutenant, 11s. per diem.
(10.) Adjutant, 3s. 6d. in addition to pay of rank, and forage for
one horse.
(11.) Quartermaster, 13s. 6d. per diem.
(12.) Staff-sergeants, 8s. per diem.
(13.) Sergeants, 6s. per diem.
(14.) Corporals, 5s. per diem.
(15.) Trumpeters or buglers, 4s. per diem.
(16.) Gunners, sappers, or privates, 4s. per diem.
- Volunteer officers commanding Garrison Artillery divisions
or battalions, and their adjutants, when visiting for the purposes of
inspection the companies under their command, shall be allowed
railway-passes, and travelling-expenses at the rate of 10s. per day
(and 2s. 6d. horse allowance for mounted units) for each day absent
from their respective headquarters, provided that the same shall not
be claimed in respect of the inspection of any company situated less
than five miles from the headquarters of such division or battalion,
nor in respect of the inspection of any company twice in one month,
nor for more than three days in each quarter, and in cases of these
officers attending camps they shall draw only camp allowance as
fixed by scale in that behalf.
ALLOWANCE REGULATIONS FOR THE HIRING OF HORSES FOR FIELD
ARTILLERY VOLUNTEERS.
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Os.C. Districts shall, on receiving the sanction of the
Commandant so to do, arrange with Os.C. field batteries under
their command to hire horses locally for all authorised mounted
parades. All horses must be hired at the owner’s risk, and where
the Permanent Force horses can be utilised they are to be used,
and the charges therefor are to be deducted from the amounts in
Schedule to Regulation No. 396. -
The amount authorised for each battery is on no account
to be exceeded without special authority; the money is to be ex-
pended in accordance with the following schedule, but where con-
sidered advisable by the O.C. the District other arrangements can
be made, so long as the total amount allotted for each battery is
not exceeded :—
Schedule of Allowances.
| Details of Parades. | Designation of Battery. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | D | E | H | I | ||
| (a.) Six whole days at training camps | £108 | £108 | £108 | £108 | £72 | £72 | |
| (b.) Twelve horses for five days (evenings and mornings) for section drill at the training camps | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | |
| (c.) Four whole days at Easter | 72 | 72 | 72 | 72 | 48 | 48 | |
| (d.) When specially authorised for firing salutes or ceremonial parades (on obtaining special authority from headquarters) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
- Forage allowance at the rate of 1s. 6d. per diem per horse
shall only be allowed for the thirty-six horses under (a) and (c),
Permanent Force horses to be taken into account when used.
ALLOWANCE FOR HIRING HORSES FOR FIELD AMBULANCE.
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When a field ambulance is used by a Field Hospital and
Bearer company at a “manoeuvre” camp an allowance for the hire of
two horses, not to exceed 10s. per day per horse, shall be made. At
parades or field days especially ordered by the O.C. the District a
similar allowance shall be made. These parades are not, however,
to exceed five per year. All horses are to be hired at the owner’s
risk. -
Forage allowance at the rate of 1s. 6d. per diem per horse
shall be allowed when horses are hired,
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NZ Gazette 1905, No 52
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