New Zealand Gazette – 1908 – No. 96

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✨ Volunteer Regulations

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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 96

Field Engineer Volunteers.

Regulation 416. All non-commissioned officers and men who pass a qualifying examination as under will be classified and awarded proficiency badges, certificates, and personal payments of £1 per annum:—

Subject.	Minimum Marks.	Classification.	Award.
Field engineering	75	Third-year subjects. First-class sapper	Certificate, badge, and £1.
		Second-year subjects. Second-class sapper	Certificate and £1.
Field telegraph ..	75	Third-year subjects. First-class telegraphist	Certificate, badge, and £1.
		Second-year subjects. Second-class telegraphist	Certificate and £1.
Signalling	75	Third-year subjects. First-class signaller	Certificate, badge, and £1.
		Second-year subjects. Second-class signaller	Certificate and £1.

Non-commissioned officers must obtain 80 per cent. in order to qualify for certificate, badge, and payment.

Non-commissioned officers or men qualifying in field engineering will not be eligible for certificate, badge, or personal payment in any other subject for the same year, but those qualifying in “Field Telegraphy” and “Signalling” will be eligible for certificate, badge, or personal payment in both these subjects.

The conditions for examination and syllabus for subjects will be as directed from time to time in General Orders.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-third day of November, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

J. G. WARD,
Minister of Defence.

[D. 08/2668.]
[W. 08/25.]

Volunteer Regulations amended.

PLUNKET, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on me by “The Defence Act, 1908,” I, William Lee, Baron Plunket, the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke Regulation 3, (2A), of the General Regulations of the Defence Forces of New Zealand, as amended on the sixteenth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seven, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the twenty-first day of February, one thousand nine hundred and seven, in the manner and to the extent set forth in the Schedule hereto; and I do hereby declare that such revocation shall take effect, and the regulation hereby made shall come into force, on the fourth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

SCHEDULE.

(1.) REGULATION 3, (2A), as amended on the 16th day of February, 1907, is hereby revoked, and the following substituted in lieu thereof:—

(a.) New Zealand Field Artillery.

4-gun Battery Establishment.

—	Major.	Captain.	Subalterns.	Battery Sergeant-Major.	Battery Quartermaster-Sergeant.	Farrier-Sergeant.	Sergeants.	Corporals.	Bombardiers.	Drivers.	Gunners.	Trumpeters.	Officers.	N.C.O.s and Men.	Total.
Maximum	1	1	3	1	1	1	6	6	6	24	48	2	5	95	100
Minimum	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	67	70

VUW Te Waharoa — NZ Gazette 1908, No 96

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🛡️ Field Engineer Volunteers - Proficiency Qualifications

Domain🛡️ Defence & Military
Dated23 November 1908
KeywordsVolunteer regulations, Field Engineer Volunteers, Proficiency badges, Certificates, Payments, Examinations, General Orders
👩‍💼 Officials

J. G. Ward, Minister of Defence

🛡️ Revocation and Substitution of Volunteer Regulations - Field Artillery Establishment

Domain🛡️ Defence & Military
Dated4 November 1908
KeywordsVolunteer regulations, Defence Act 1908, Field Artillery, Battery establishment, Officers, Non-commissioned officers, Men
👩‍💼 Officials

William Lee, Baron Plunket, Governor

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