New Zealand Gazette – 1914 – No. 6

Page 260

✨ Rifle Club Regulations



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ANNUAL COURSE OF MUSKETRY.

  1. Every senior and junior member of a Rifle Club will fire a prescribed annual course of musketry as laid down in the N.Z. Musketry Instructions.

  2. The nominal rolls furnished to Area Sergeants-major at the end of each training-year will show that this has been done.

  3. Any active member who has not fired this course will be struck off the strength of the club.

  4. Rifle practice shall only be carried out on ranges which have been inspected and passed by the Defence Department authorities.

  5. Units of the Territorial Force, Senior Cadet Companies, and Rifle Clubs have equal rights to the use of any Government range.

  6. If any accident should happen to a marker or to any other person while practice is proceeding on a rifle range, the same must be reported in writing at once by the President of the club to the headquarters of the nearest Infantry battalion or Mounted regiment.

RETURNS.

  1. On or before the 15th May in every year the President of each club shall prepare and forward to the Area Sergeant-major a nominal roll on the prescribed form showing-

(1.) The names of all senior members of the clubs on the last day of April.

(2.) The number of the rifle in each senior member's possession.

(3.) The drills and musketry performed by each senior member during the year.

  1. Any Rifle Club which fails to furnish this return, or furnishes a return which, in the opinion of the O.C. District, is unsatisfactory, shall be reported to the G.O.C., who, if he thinks fit, may recommend that such club shall be disbanded.

UNIFORM.

  1. A pattern of service dress will be approved, and may be worn by members of Rifle Clubs. It will not be issued free, and its provision is optional. Uniform will only be worn when at training, or when performing military duty, or on other occasions when uniform is authorized to be worn. Commissioned officers will wear the uniform to which they are entitled.

  2. Senior members of Rifle Clubs who are still serving in the Territorial Force Reserve will wear the uniform of their unit or corps; otherwise no member of a Rifle Club, as such, shall wear any uniform except that authorized for Rifle Clubs in the N.Z. Clothing and Equipment Regulations. Badges and chevrons of rank laid down for officers and men for the Permanent and Territorial Forces will not be worn with this uniform.

RAILWAY WARRANTS.

  1. Senior and junior members of Rifle Clubs may be granted railway warrants (second class) when proceeding to the nearest rifle range to carry out practice or drill.

  2. Free railway warrants may be issued by the O.C. District to members of Rifle Clubs to enable them to attend the annual meeting of the Dominion Rifle Association, or approved rifle meetings up to a distance of 100 miles.

  3. Warrants will be issued by the authorized officer as described in paras. 451-460.

  4. No railway warrants will be issued to members of Rifle Clubs to visit rifle meetings or the ranges of other clubs for purposes of competitions except by the special authority of the G.O.C., and except as provided for in para. 653.

MODEL RULES.

  1. In drawing up the rules for Rifle Clubs, the following shall be taken as a model:-

Rules of the ------ Rifle Club.

(1.) This club shall be known as the ------ Rifle Club.

(2.) No person shall be admitted as a senior member of the club unless proposed by two or more members of the club, except in the case of a transfer, which is provided for by para. 616 of the regulations, and on payment of such entrance fee and annual subscription as may be fixed by the by-laws.

(3.) The business of the club shall be managed by a committee consisting of the President, Secretary, Treasurer, and four members, three to form a quorum.

(4.) The office-bearers and members of committee shall be elected at the annual meeting of the club, which shall be held on such date as may be fixed by the by-laws.

(5.) Any office-bearer or member of committee being absent without leave for three consecutive meetings of the committee shall be liable, at the discretion of the committee, to have his seat declared vacant.

(6.) Any extraordinary vacancy in the committee, caused either by resignation or enforced retirement under Rule 5, may be filled up by the committee.

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(7.) All meetings of the committee shall be convened by the Secretary.

(8.) The annual meeting of the club for the election of office-bearers shall be convened by notice to each member, and not less than seven days' notice shall be given of such meeting.

(9.) A balance-sheet, audited by two members appointed at the preceding annual meeting, shall be laid before the members at every annual meeting.

(10.) The President shall preside at all committee and general meetings at which he is present.

In his absence, the members present may elect a chairman for any meeting.

(11.) The President, or a deputy appointed by him, will conduct all correspondence with the Area Sergeant-major or Officer i/c Area Group in which the club is situated.

(12.) The Secretary shall keep minutes of all general meetings of members, and of meetings of the committee, and shall conduct all correspondence ordered by the committee, and he may, if duly authorized, act as the deputy of the President.

(13.) The subscription of every member shall become due on such date as may be fixed by the by-laws, and no one shall be entitled to the privileges of the club as defined by the by-laws until his subscription be paid.

(14.) No member, by reason of his being such, shall have any estate or interest in the property of the club other than the right to use the club property at the rifle ranges, in accordance with the resolutions or decisions of the committee.

(15.) A general meeting of the club shall be called at any time by the Secretary on receiving a requisition signed by so many members as may be prescribed by the by-laws; the time and object of such general meeting to be notified to each member one week previous to such meeting.

(16.) The practice days of the club shall be fixed by the by-laws, but the committee may, on giving due notice to every member, alter the time as they may think necessary, or appoint such other days in addition to the above as may appear expedient.

(17.) After providing for the necessary expenses of the club, the committee may expend the balance of any moneys other than those received from Government in granting prizes to its members, the rifle matches at which such prizes are to be competed for being duly notified by advertisement.

(18.) In addition to the annual subscription, if any, the committee shall have power to exact such entrance fee as may be prescribed by the by-laws from every member who shall compete in a match for prizes; provided always that the entrance fees be devoted to the prize-list.

(19.) The rules for the matches and club practices, the distances, the conditions of firing, the nature and value of the prizes, and all other details, shall be decided by the committee.

(20.) The committee shall have power to frame such by-laws as may from time to time be necessary for carrying on the business of the club; such by-laws shall, however, be subject to approval of the club at a general meeting thereof.

(21.) Any senior member of the club may, on his resignation, become an honorary member of the club without payment of any annual subscription, provided that a resolution to this effect is passed at a general meeting of the members of the club convened for this purpose.

(22.) The conditions and regulations of the Dominion Rifle Association shall generally be observed in the matches and practices of the club, other than those carried out under the regulations for the N.Z. Military Forces.

SECTION XIV.--SENIOR CADETS.

General.

  1. The unit of organization in the Senior Cadets will be the company of Infantry.

  2. Students at schools, or members of other recognized organizations, such as the Boy Scouts, may be formed in distinct companies or half-companies according to their number. Companies or half-companies so formed will be an integral part of a school or other organization to which they belong, and will be subject to its discipline.

  3. In the management of these companies and half-companies the military authorities will co-operate with the headmaster and the recognized head of the organization as regards both discipline and training.

  4. In schools which furnish two or more companies of Senior Cadets the companies will be grouped in to a school contingent, and a senior officer may be appointed as O.C. Contingent. The officer so appointed will be in addition to the Company Commanders, whose work he will supervise and co-ordinate.

  5. Senior Cadets belonging to schools furnishing distinct companies or half-companies may be registered in the area in which such school is situated, and will carry out their training in that area. In such cases the Area Sergeant-major of the area in which



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