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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 73

SCHEDULE.

All in the Canterbury Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked and coloured as above mentioned, and deposited in the office of the Chief Engineer of Roads, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

General Regulations of the Defence Forces of New Zealand amended.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by “The Defence Act, 1886,” and its amendments, I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby amend the General Regulations of the Defence Forces of New Zealand, made on the eighth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and six, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the same date, by adding thereto the additional regulation set out in the Schedule hereto; and I do hereby declare that such additional regulation shall come into force on the first day of August, one thousand nine hundred and seven.

SCHEDULE.

THE following regulation is hereby added after Regulation 103 of the General Regulations:—

EXAMINATION OF OFFICERS OF THE NEW ZEALAND PERMANENT STAFF AND NEW ZEALAND PERMANENT FORCE.

Regulation 103A. 1. Confidential reports are to be furnished to headquarters with respect to every staff, regimental, and departmental officer. These reports shall be made out by the commanding officer, or the immediate superior of the officer reported on.

2. Officers shall be recommended in the annual reports of commanding officers either—
   (1.) For accelerated promotion; or
   (2.) For promotion in the ordinary course; or
   (3.) For their promotion to be delayed for further report.
   Should the confidential reports of two successive years recommend delay in promotion, a special report shall be rendered to the New Zealand Defence Council, which will consider the advisability of retaining the officer in the service.

3. In recommending officers for accelerated promotion, commanding officers shall record clearly and concisely the special qualification which makes the officer more efficient than his comrades. Recommendations of this nature should be sparingly made, and should apply to cases only where the officer is exceptionally gifted, or where he has, by very zealous performance of his duties, brought himself conspicuously to notice. Further, it is to be noted that such recommendations cannot become operative until the officer has passed the examination for promotion and has obtained a special certificate therein.

4. An officer of the staff will be detailed from time to time to supervise all arrangements connected with the general education and instruction of officers.

5. Reference libraries for the use of officers are established at the principal centres, and these libraries will be inspected annually, and arrangements made to insure the latest text-books and standard works being kept available for reference by officers in preparing for their examinations.

6. Examinations for the promotion of officers up to the rank of major comprise the following subjects:—
   (a.) Regimental duties (practical, oral, and written).
   (b.) Drill and field training (practical only).

• Practical,—
  (c.) (i.) Practical military topography.
  (ii.) Practical military engineering.
  (iii.) Practical tactics.
  (iv.) Horsemanship (for mounted branches only).
  (v.) Riding (for captains of all dismounted branches).

† Written,—
(d.) (i.) Military engineering (tactics and topography).
(ii.) Military law.
(iii.) Administration, organization, and equipment.
(iv.) Military history.
(e.) Artillery (artillery officers only).
(f.) Musketry (artillery officers exempt).

7. The subjects for examination for the various ranks shall be as follows:—
   (1.) Warrant and non-commissioned officers before appointment to lieutenant: Subjects (a), (b), (e), (f).
   (2.) Lieutenants before promotion to captain: Subjects (c), (d), (i) and (ii), and (f). Artillery officers, (c), (d), (e).
   (3.) Captains before promotion to major: Subjects (d) and (f); (d) and (e) for artillery officers.

8. The following certificates will be accepted instead of an examination; but such certificate must have been obtained within three years previous to the date of examination for promotion:—
   (1.) A gunnery staff course certificate instead of (e) and those portions of (b) which are special to artillery.
   (2.) A certificate of having passed through a course of instruction in fortifications at the School of Military Engineering in lieu of (c), (ii).
   Candidates claiming exemption shall forward their certificates when they apply to be examined; but no officer so claiming will be eligible for a special certificate.

9. An officer who has obtained a special certificate will be noted at headquarters for accelerated promotion, provided he is also recommended for accelerated promotion in the annual confidential report.

10. Officers will not be permitted to present themselves for examination in subject (c) until they have been promoted to the rank of lieutenant, nor will officers be allowed to present themselves for (d) until they have fully passed in (c).

11. An officer who twice fails to pass in (c) will not, as a rule, be permitted to remain in the service.
    If an officer fails in subheads (iv) or (v) of the (c) examination, he will be allowed to present himself for re-examination in those subheads only; if he fails in either (i), (ii), or (iii) subheads, he must be re-examined in those three subheads as a whole.
    An officer who fails in (c), or any subhead of (c), cannot present himself for re-examination in that subject or subhead until after a (d) examination has been held. If an officer fails in one of the subheads of (d) examination, he will be re-examined in that subhead only.
    Subjects (e) or (f) (lieutenant) may be taken up separately at any examination.

12. Candidates for examination shall apply through their commanding officers to headquarters. Such application should be accompanied by certificates from commanding officers showing—
    (1.) That the candidate is qualified under paragraphs 9 and 10.
    And in the case of subject (c)—
    (2.) That the commanding officer is personally satisfied that the candidate has a sufficient knowledge of the subject to warrant his presenting himself for examination.
    (3.) That, in the commanding officer’s opinion, the candidate, as regards his competency to command, instruct, and train his men, in the camp and in the field, is fitted for promotion to the rank of captain or major.

13. The (a), (b), and (c) examinations will be carried out by the Chief of the General Staff, or an officer specially appointed by him, who shall appoint a Board of Examination, with himself as President, and two officers, not under the rank of captain, as members. The Board shall examine the candidate in strict accordance with the syllabus.

14. Boards of Examination for subjects (d), (e), and (f) will be assembled on the last Mondays in May and November.

15. A substantive major will not be appointed to the rank of lieut.-colonel until he has passed the prescribed examination for such rank.

16. It will be at the discretion of the Chief of the General Staff to carry out the examination of lieut.-colonels for tactical fitness either—(1) with troops; (2) by means of staff rides and war games (tactical exercises).

• To be carried out during training season.
  † Examinations will be held half-yearly (May and November).