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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 9

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 in the corps are properly qualified practitioners, and fit and proper persons to hold commissions. He shall forward to the Commandant all applications for first appointment, and shall also recommend all promotions. He shall report, prior to the 1st May in each Volunteer year, to the Commandant on the efficiency of the medical service generally, and on both personnel and equipment.
115. A P.M.O. shall be appointed for each district. He shall be responsible for the efficiency of the medical services in his district. An equipment shall be at his disposal when required on service or in camp.