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that he has displayed all proper zeal and industry, and has profited by the course.

562. When attending a continuous course of instruction with pay, officers who do not reside at the station where instruction is given will, if not provided with quarters or tents, receive lodging-allowance.

563. Lodging-allowance for the night of an officer’s arrival at the station will be admissible when he necessarily proceeds there for the purpose of reporting himself at the school or place of instruction on the following morning.

564. The issue of pay to N.C.O.s and men during authorized courses of instruction will be made at the end of the course, and will be subject to the production of a certificate that they have been punctual and attentive during the period for which pay is issued.

565. The issue of pay during attendance at voluntary continuous courses of instruction will be subject to the discretion of the O.C. District, who will state whether it will be admissible when sanctioning the attendance.

566. Pay due will be issued by the Adjutant or Paymaster of the unit to which the officer or man belongs, and the charge will be vouched by a copy of the order for the officer or man to attend (containing the decision of the O.C. District regarding the admissibility of pay in the case of a voluntary course), a certificate showing the period of attendance, and, in the case of an officer a reference to the date of the order notifying that the officer has received a satisfactory report. In the case of a man the certificate will be attached.

567. N.C.O.s or men who do not reside at their usual place of abode while attending a continuous course of instruction will be provided with quarters or tent, or lodging-money in lieu, if accommodation is not available during the period.

568. When under instruction at continuous courses of instruction, N.C.O.s and men (if not able to live at their own homes) will be entitled to rations in kind or the allowance as laid down in “Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations.”

PROVISION OF HORSES AND FORAGE.

569. Officers of the Staff Corps and Permanent Force, and warrant officers and N.C.O.s of the Permanent Staff whose duty necessitates their being mounted will be entitled to forage allowance for one horse if actually kept.

570. All officers, N.C.O.s, and men other than those belonging to units of the Mounted brigades, or detached squadrons of Mounted Rifles, authorized to be mounted at annual training in camp, or other duty authorized by the O.C. District, will be entitled to the allowance for horse-hire if Government horse is not provided.

571. Forage, or the allowance in lieu, will be granted, under the conditions and at the rates laid down in the “Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations,” and at the rate published from time to time in General Orders, for one horse each for mounted officers and men during annual training in camp or other authorized duty for which the employment of a horse has been sanctioned by the O.C. District.

572. An officer of the Territorial Force serving temporarily as Acting Brigade-Major or Acting Adjutant in the place of an officer of the Staff Corps or Permanent Force will, if entitled to forage, but not keeping a horse, be allowed the sum actually and necessarily expended in horse-hire as limited by the “Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations” for any mounted duties he may be called upon to perform. When horse-hire is claimed for an Acting Brigade-Major or Acting-Adjutant, the name of the officer of the Staff Corps or Permanent Force for whom he is acting will be shown in the claim.

TRAVELLING-ALLOWANCES.

District, Mounted, and Infantry Brigade Headquarters.

573. Travelling expenses and allowances for District Headquarters and for Mounted and Infantry brigade headquarters will be governed by the “Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations.”

574. The O.C. each district will allot from his training-grant an amount for the travelling-allowances of District Headquarters and of the headquarters of brigades in his district to cover travelling-expenses for all duly authorized journeys, as follows :—

(a.) Travelling-allowances for individual officers, when admissible, to and from the annual training in camp, including cost of conveyance of horses.

(b.) Travelling allowances when selecting sites for camps.

(c.) Travelling-allowances for actual and necessary visits to units (including in special cases visits to company and detachment headquarters) during the non-training period by the Brigade Commander and Brigade-Major, with detention allowance for as many nights as may be absolutely necessary.

(d.) Travelling expenses and allowances for all duly ordered journeys other than the above (as, for instance, when a Brigade Commander is ordered to go to the headquarters of a district for consultation, or to the station to which his brigade is allotted on mobilization or to a rifle range), expenses in these cases to be only allowed on the special authority of the O.C. District, or on the authority of an officer delegated by him.

575. An allotment from the amount referred to will be made at the discretion of the O.C. District to each brigade headquarters as the maximum to be allowed for travelling-allowances during the year. Charges will be governed by the “Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations,” and vouched for in the ordinary way.

576. All travelling-allowances will be calculated from the officers’ official headquarters, or, if no greater expense is involved, from the officers’ residences.

OFFICERS OF THE STAFF CORPS AND PERMANENT FORCE.

577. All officers of the Staff Corps and Permanent Force will be entitled to draw travelling-allowance as laid down in the “Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations.”

578. When an officer is permitted by his O.C. District to live away from his headquarters, no extra expense for travelling thereby incurred will be admissible as a charge against the public, nor will any charge be admissible on account of travelling between his residence and headquarters.

WARRANT OFFICERS, N.C.O.S, AND MEN OF THE PERMANENT STAFF AND PERMANENT FORCE.

579. The travelling-allowances of instructors of the Permanent Staff and Permanent Force will be governed by the “Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations.” Travelling-allowances will not be drawn for distances of less than four miles, or, in the case of an instructor or area N.C.O. who draws horse-allowance, for a distance of less than ten miles.

580. Travelling-allowance will be granted subject to para. 579:—

(a.) To an instructor proceeding to an outlying squadron, battery, company, or recognized drill station for drill or instruction or for the inspection of arms.

(b.) To an instructor travelling on other military duties when specially authorized by the O.C. District or Brigade Commander.

In claims under (a) and (b) a certificate from the officer giving the order for the instructor to travel will be attached to the voucher.

OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE TERRITORIAL FORCE.

581. The cost of conveyance of units to and from annual training in camp, drills, and musketry will be defrayed out of the district training-grant. No personal allowances or expenses will be given.

582. No grant from public funds will be made for the conveyance of officers’ chargers or other horses in excess of the number laid down in the Territorial Force establishments.

583. Officers and men joining a continuous course of instruction for which pay is drawn will be allowed travelling-allowances from their places of residence to the nearest available place of instruction. Travelling-allowances in connection with the same course will only be admitted once. If an officer or man is permitted for his own convenience to attend a school or course which is not the nearest available one, any extra expense caused thereby will not be admissible. Officers and men attending a course of instruction will not be entitled to travelling-allowances for their horses unless they are required to be mounted, and it is certified that they could not be supplied with a public horse.

584. Officers and men who reside at their homes while attending a continuous course of instruction will be allowed their travelling-expenses to and from daily, provided such expenses do not exceed the lodging-allowances to which they would have otherwise been entitled.

585. Travelling-allowances to voluntary courses of instruction, whether pay is given or not, may be admitted as laid down, if the O.C. District so directs when sanctioning the attendance.

586. Officers will be allowed travelling-allowances as laid down in “Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations” to and from the nearest place at which arrangements could be made for their examination when attending,—

(1.) The examination for promotion. Such travelling-allowances will be admitted for one return journey only in respect of each examination;

(2.) An examination in a foreign language, provided they qualify as interpreters.

587. Travelling-allowances will not be admissible for officers attending voluntary examinations except as provided in para. 586 (2).

588. Officers travelling on military duties specially authorized by the G.O.C. or O.C. District may be granted travelling-allowances as laid down in “Financial Instructions.”

589. Officers travelling in the Dominion on duty of a nature which entitles them to travel at the public expense should be provided with a warrant, which must be given up at the booking-office in exchange for a ticket. The warrant will be indorsed as follows, and signed by the authorized person, “Territorial Force officer travelling on military duty at the Government expense.”