1560
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 38

Leave of Absence.

419. Officers of the New Zealand Staff Corps and New Zealand Permanent Force will be entitled to one month’s leave per year. Warrant officers of the Permanent Staff and Permanent Force will be granted twenty-one days per year, and N.C.O.s and men eighteen days.

420. An officer who obtains leave will give his address, and notify any change in it, to District Headquarters.

421. Leave of absence from the annual camp will only be granted to officers of the Territorial Force in very exceptional circumstances. Such leave will not be given without the sanction of a superior officer having powers not less than those of a Brigade Commander.

422. No officer of the Military Forces may quit the Dominion without permission from Headquarters.

423. An officer who applies for leave on account of sickness will forward a medical certificate.

424. Under instructions received from the Brigade Commander the officer commanding a unit may excuse an officer or soldier from any portion of the annual training on account of sickness duly certified. The sickness will be recorded in the soldier’s Record-books.

425. A C.O. may grant leave to any officer or soldier of the Territorial Force during annual training in camp for a period not exceeding one night, such leave should only be granted in urgent cases.

426. In cases where leave for one night is granted, not more than one hour’s drill or exercise must be missed. Leave of absence will not be given for the first or last night of training to more than 10 per cent. of the establishment.

427. Any N.C.O. or man of the Territorial Force, or a Senior Cadet, before leaving the Dominion will obtain permission from his unit commander; if such absence entails loss of training the question whether such training is or is not to be made up on his return is to be referred to the Brigade Commander.

SECTION IX.—MOVEMENTS.

General Instructions.

428. No movement of any corps or unit, or any portion of a corps or unit, from one military district to another shall take place without sanction previously being obtained from Headquarters.

429. An O.C. District may delegate to officers to be named by him the power of issuing travelling-warrants for certain defined purposes. As a rule, this power should only be delegated to officers at out-stations where reference to District Headquarters would involve a loss of time.

430. The names of officers to whom the power to issue travelling-grants is delegated will be published in District Orders, and these officers will furnish monthly to the O.C. District a return of the passes issued by them.

431. Warrant-books should be kept under lock and key, and the officers intrusted with them will be responsible for any improper use of the forms. On being relieved, they will hand over the books to their successors, obtaining a receipt.

432. Travelling-warrants may be issued to officers, N.C.O.s, and men of the Military Forces when ordered or permitted by competent authority to travel on duty.

433. The names of the individuals to whom warrants are granted shall in each case be inserted in such warrant.

434. Officers issuing warrants will observe the instructions laid down on the cover of these books.

435. All officers travelling on duty shall be entitled to first-class passes. Warrant officers and Acting Sergeant-majors shall be entitled to travel first-class; other ranks will travel second-class.

436. Railway warrants shall not be issued for the purpose of attending military sports or rifle meetings, except by special permission of the G.O.C.

437. Officers as a rule, and warrant officers, N.C.O.s, and men at all times, will wear uniform when travelling on duty.

Movements of Troops by Railway.

438. Officers in command of troops moving by railway are responsible that the railway regulations are complied with by the troops. They are not to interfere with the prescribed running of the trains or the general working of the Railway service.

439. Previous to entrainment the compartments provided should be numbered and lettered to facilitate the entrainment of squadrons, companies, or sections.

440. The entrainment will take place by word of command. It should be complete five minutes before the time of departure.

441. No man is to leave a carriage without the permission of an officer.

442. Horses should usually be entrained with saddlery and harness on, except when the journey will exceed six hours, in which case harness and saddlery will be removed after arrival at the station, and loaded into covered goods-trucks.

443. When the train is ready to proceed, “Fall in” will be sounded. Silence must be maintained until the train moves off.

444. Departure of trains should be telegraphed by the officer superintending the entrainment to the place where the troops are to halt for refreshment, and also to the place of final destination.

445. On arrival at the place appointed for the train to halt, the officers will get out and go to the carriages of which they are in charge. Sentries will be posted if necessary. The “Dismiss” will then be sounded, and men may get out of the train, leaving their arms in the carriages.

446. When it is necessary that the troops should be fed or horses watered en route, previous preparations should be made regimentally, an officer, with one or more N.C.O.s, being, if necessary, sent forward to make arrangements.

447. When it is intended to water and feed horses during a halt, “Water,” followed by “Feed,” will be sounded, and the men proceed to water their horses from buckets. After being watered the horses will be fed from nosebags. No hay or straw is to be left among the horses, and any forage conveyed should be in closed or tarpaulin-covered wagons.

448. When it is time to proceed, the “Fall in” will sound. Men will return to their carriages, and the officers will see that they are all present, and report to the C.O. Any sentries that have been posted will then be withdrawn. Lastly, the officers will get in, and the C.O. will then give directions that the train may proceed.

449. In case of accident to the train the officers will proceed at once to the carriages of which they are in charge, and the men will retain their seats until ordered to descend. Directions given by railway officials must be promptly executed.

450. In detrainments the O.C. the troops must insure the speedy evacuation of the railway-station.

451. As they are detrained, riding-horses will be led to the place of assembly, and draught horses to their own wagons.

452. The detrainment of guns and vehicles will be carried out by parties told off for the purpose. If it cannot be done simultaneously with that of the horses, the latter will, as a rule, be first detrained. Each carriage should be drawn off to the place of assembly as soon as horsed, so as to clear the ground.

Transport of Baggage and Stores to Annual Camps.

453. Railway warrants for the conveyance of baggage and stores to camps and manoeuvres will be permitted only for those stores which are issued or authorized by the Defence Department for use at such camps, and for the personal baggage of those proceeding on duty to attend such camps, according to the following scale :—

Not exceeding.

Officers of Headquarters, District, and Brigade Staffs, and commanding officers .. .. 150 lb.
Other Mounted officers .. .. .. 100 ,,
Dismounted officers .. .. .. 70 ,,
Warrant officers .. .. .. 50 ,,
Other ranks .. .. .. 20 ,,

454. At manoeuvres, when personal baggage is to be carried by military or hired transport, the scale will be as authorized by the officer in command, but not greater than laid down in the Field Service Manuals.

SECTION X.—UNIFORM, EQUIPMENT, DECORATIONS, AND MEDALS.

General Instructions.

455. The orders of dress laid down in Tables A and B, section XII, “King’s Regulations,” will be taken as a guide as to the orders of dress to be worn on parade and on special occasions.

456. Officers attending Levées, Courts, State balls, and ceremonies at which Royalty or the Governor is present, and on the occasions mentioned in Table A, section XII, “King’s Regulations,” must wear the authorized full dress, excepting in the case of officers of the Territorial Force who do not possess full dress; these officers will wear service-dress, with drab serge overalls and Wellington boots, “Sam Brown” belts, slouch hats, and medals (as for full dress).

457. Full dress will not be worn by officers parading with their men, unless the latter are wearing full dress or “walking-out” dress.

458. The universal pattern “Sam Brown” belt in brown leather will be worn by all officers and warrant officers of all units and corps with the service dress. Mounted officers will wear steel spurs.

459. Horse-furniture will be of the universal pattern as laid down in the “N.Z. Dress Regulations,” with such special regimental ornaments as may be approved by the G.O.C.

460. No deviation from authorized patterns of uniform is permitted, and no new patterns of uniform, badges, or horse-furniture are to be introduced without approval of the G.O.C.

461. Officers in uniform, when in mourning or attending funerals, will wear a crape-band, 3¼ in. wide, round the left arm above the elbow.