MAY 5.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1563

FLAG STATIONS AND FLAGS TO BE FLOWN.

517. Where two flags are issued, the smaller is for use in bad weather.

Flag Stations.

• On anniversaries, State occasions, and when required for saluting or other special purposes. † Daily, except Sundays. ‡ On Sundays and anniversaries.

SALUTING STATIONS.

518. The following is a list of stations at which salutes are authorized to be fired:

• Auckland ... Saluting battery, North Head.
• Wellington ... Saluting battery, Pipitea Point.

ARTILLERY SALUTES.

519. The forts and batteries referred to in paragraph 28 will fire salutes as follows:

Number of guns, 21—

Royal Salute—

(1.) The sovereign; a member of the Royal Family; a foreign crowned head; sovereign Prince or his consort; a Prince who is a member of a foreign Royal Family; President of a Republican State.
(Salutes will be fired both on arrival and departure.)

(2.) The standard of the sovereign, or Prince of Wales, when passing in a vessel.

(3.) Anniversaries—Birthday (as notified in the Gazette), Accession, Coronation of sovereign, birthday of consort of sovereign, and Empire Day.
(These salutes will be fired at noon.)

Number of guns, 19—

(1.) The opening, proroguing, and dissolving Parliament of the Dominion.

(2.) Admirals of the Fleet.

Number of guns, 17—

The Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand.

Governors of His Majesty’s Colonies or States (para. 31).

• Admirals.

Number of guns, 15—

• Vice-Admirals.

Lieutenant-Governors and officers administering the government of Colonies or States, and Administrators acting under the Governor.

Number of guns, 13—

• Rear-Admirals.

Number of guns, 11—

• Commodores (no senior Captain being present).

$ Consuls-General.

Number of guns, 7—

$ Consuls.

520. A foreigner of high distinction, or a foreign General, or a flag officer when visiting the Governor or the Commandant may, on landing, be saluted with the number of guns which from his rank he is entitled to receive from a ship of war of his own nation, or with such number, not exceeding nineteen, as may be deemed proper; but such salute will not in any case exceed the number of guns given to officers of corresponding rank in His Majesty’s Army and Navy.

521. The Governor and officers administering the government will be saluted on the following occasions. They will not receive artillery salutes on any other occasions:

(1.) On first landing in their governments.

(2.) On reading of Royal Commission and taking the oaths of office.

(3.) On departing from their governments on leave of absence exceeding three months.

(4.) On returning from leave of absence exceeding three months.

(5.) On finally quitting the Dominion on expiration of term of office.

(6.) When officially visiting States, ports, and dependencies within their governments, but not oftener at any one place than once in twelve months.

522. All salutes from ships of war of other nations to His Majesty’s forts or batteries named in paragraph 518 are to be returned gun for gun. His Majesty’s ships and His Majesty’s forts will not on any account exchange salutes.

523. Such of the authorities mentioned in the foregoing instructions as may, from their rank and appointments, be entitled to be saluted in more than one capacity will be saluted under that rank which shall entitle them to the greatest number of guns, but on no occasion is the same individual to be saluted in more than one capacity.

524. Upon the occasion of the celebration of the birthday of the King or Queen of a foreign nation or other important national festivals or ceremonies by any ships of war of such nation, a salute not exceeding twenty-one guns may be fired in conjunction with any of His Majesty’s ships that may be present, on official intimation of the intended celebration being received from the Governor.

525. No salutes other than those authorized by these regulations are to be allowed, except such as may be necessary for the fulfilment of any treaty obligation; provided that, upon any important occurrence, such as a great victory gained by His Majesty’s arms, or highly advantageous national event, the Governor may direct such salutes to be fired as the occasion may seem to him to require.

Military Funerals.

526. Military funerals will be accorded to officers and soldiers buried within the area group furnishing the unit or corps with which they are serving at the time of their death.

527. Military funerals will not be ordered without special authority, unless troops are available within reasonable distance of the burial-ground. Gun-carriage and other appliances will be supplied when practicable.

528. Officers are not to be interred with military honours unless they are at the time of their decease on full pay or employed on the Staff or in the exercise of some military command or office. No honours are to be paid officially at the funerals of other officers or of retired soldiers.

529. Provided the troops are available, military funerals are to be attended and saluted in accordance with the following table:

*Only when commissioned as Brigadier-General.

530. At the funeral of general or flag officers, or of Commodores and Brigadier-Generals, minute guns are to be fired while the body is proceeding to the burial-ground; but these minute guns are not to exceed the number to which the officer’s rank entitled him when living. When any such officers who have died when afloat are to be buried on shore, minute guns are to be fired from the ship, if a ship of war, while the body is being conveyed to the shore, and where the means exist, minute guns will be fired from the shore while the procession is moving from the landing-place to the burial-ground. The total minute guns so fired must not exceed twice the number of guns to which the deceased was entitled when living.

531. The salute of guns prescribed by paragraph 530, or in the case of flag officers and Commodores, a salute of the number of guns to