New Zealand Gazette – 1906 – No. 9

Page 435

✨ Volunteer Capitation Allowance Regulations

Feb. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 435

Qualification for earning Capitation.

Class Firing.

All branches and ranks of the Volunteer Force (excepting officers above the rank of captain, adjutants, 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.”
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.

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.
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.
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 the service from which they have been discharged, up to the 30th November, without undergoing the ordinary recruit drill; but these men shall not be entitled to capitation grant for the year in which they were thus enrolled unless they have attended every parade since the date of their enrolment, and gone through target practice as laid down.

Field Artillery.

To qualify for capitation each battery must go into a “company” camp for sixteen days each year. Each man must be present and sleep in camp at least seven out of the sixteen days. Each man must attend at least eighteen parades during the year, at which at least one-half of the strength must be present, three being daylight parades. Two-thirds of the strength must be present on at least four parades during the year.

Garrison Artillery Divisional or Battalion Staffs.

Officers and N.C.Os. of Garrison Artillery divisional or battalion staffs may qualify for capitation in same manner as company officers and N.C.Os. of the respective arms, with the exception that attendances at a “manœuvre” camp shall count as attendances at a camp of instruction.

Garrison Artillery.

To qualify for capitation the company must go into a “company” camp at or near the forts for sixteen days each year. Each man must be present and sleep in camp at least eight out of the sixteen days. Each man must attend at least eighteen parades during the year, at which not less than one-half of the strength must be present, three being afternoon parades, and devoted to fort manning. Two-thirds of the strength must be present on at least four parades during the year.

Engineers.

Submarine Mining Branch.—To qualify for capitation the company must go into a “company” camp at a place whence their training in connection with the mine fields can be most conveniently carried on for sixteen days each year. Each man must be present and sleep in camp at least eight days out of the sixteen. Each man must attend at least eighteen parades during the year, at which at least one-half of the strength must be present, three being afternoon parades and devoted to practical work on the water. Two-thirds of the strength must be present on at least four parades during the year.

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