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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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365. Field Engineering Branch.—To qualify for capitation the company must go into a “company” camp 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 at least one-half of the strength must be present, three being afternoon parades and devoted to the practical work of field engineering. Two-thirds of the strength must be present on at least four parades during the year.

Mounted Rifles.

366. To qualify for capitation each member must train either for seven days at a time (including Sunday) in camp, or else attend a total of eighteen mounted parades in each year, at which at least one-half of the strength must be present. Parades in camp shall count. If the training is in camp for a week, each man must be present during the whole of such training, and must put in at least six other (dismounted) parades during the year (irrespective of camps) of not less than two hours’ duration, at which at least one-half of the strength must be present. These dismounted parades need not be by daylight. If the training is by eighteen parades during the year, members to earn capitation must be present at each of such parades, and must put in at least six other dismounted parades of not less than two hours’ duration. These dismounted parades need not be by daylight. In addition to qualifying by either of above methods, two-thirds of the strength of the company must be present on at least four parades during the year. In special cases where detachments or divisions of companies are widely separated, permission may be granted by the Commandant for such detachments or divisions to parade separately on the same day. The aggregate strength of such detachments or divisions present shall be taken as the strength of the company for the above purposes.

Infantry and Cyclists.

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

Signalling Sections (Infantry and Cyclists).

Capitation allowance will be granted to all members of signalling sections who have attended parades as under, and who have completed the musketry course laid down in target practice, Table C:—
Each section must go into camp with its company for six days each year.
Men must be present and sleep in camp four days out of the six, and each man must attend eighteen parades, at which at least half of the strength must be present, three being afternoon parades, during the year. Two-thirds of the strength must be present on at least four parades during the year.

Qualifications for earning Personal Payments and Efficiency Badges (Signalling Sections).

The following examination will be held each year:—
(1.) Send and read a service message of one hundred and fifty letters on the large flag at six words per minute.
(2.) Send and read service messages of two hundred letters on the heliograph, lamp, and small flag at eight words per minute.
(3.) Send and read service messages of two hundred letters on the semaphore at ten words per minute.
An accuracy of ninety per cent. will be required to pass. Those members obtaining an accuracy of ninety-five per cent. will receive a badge and a personal payment of one pound.
Any man failing to pass two years in succession will cease to be a member of the signalling section.

New Zealand Medical Corps.

368. To earn capitation each officer must during the year attend at least four parades of the unit to which he has been appointed, and in addition must attend twice at a “company” or “manœuvre” camp during the year.