New Zealand Gazette – 1906 – No. 9

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✨ Military Allowance Regulations

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 9

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 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.

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, 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 charge for the use of Permanent Force horses will be the average price paid for the hire of those obtained from private firms.
The amount authorised for each battery is on no account to be exceeded without special authority; the money is to be expended in accordance with the following schedule, but where considered 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	£120	£120	£120	£120	£80	£80
(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	88	88	88	88	58	58
(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.

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.

AMMUNITION ALLOWANCE.

Ammunition in the following annual proportions, to be reckoned from the commencement of the Volunteer year, shall be allowed to the several arms without payment, on the condition that it be expended within the year under supervision of a commissioned officer, in the case of issue of Ordnance ammunition to batteries or Artillery companies, and of an officer or N.C.O. in other cases. The full annual allowance should be requisitioned for before the thirty-first day of March in each year. The annual proportions are :—

Heavy ordnance ammunition: For Garrison Artillery Volunteers, such allowance as may be from time to time authorised.

Field-gun ammunition: For field-guns, 140 rounds per battery.

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