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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
No. 86

the case of gas-supply. As soon as the system is installed, the
lamps will be brought on barrack expense store charge, but the
shades will be treated as Engineer fixtures. The officer in charge
of barracks will maintain the necessary supply of incandescent
lamps, and will take every precaution to ensure that only those
of the description and candle-power authorized are being used,
and will also guard against such lamps being replaced by lamps
of higher candle-power.

Electric Lamps.

54. Carbon filament: The useful life of such lamps is about
    400 hours actual burning. They are for use in portable lamps or
    in positions liable to excessive vibration only.

Metallic filament: These lamps should not be replaced till
the filament breaks. For estimate purposes the average life may
be taken as 750 hours actual burning.

55. O.C.s will be responsible that breakage due to wilful damage
    or carelessness is charged to the individuals concerned.

56. Officers in charge of barracks may issue incandescent
    electric lamps up to the scales indicated. They will certify on the
    expenditure voucher, by which articles so issued are struck off
    charge in the barrack expense store account, that the lamps, &c.,
    shown therein do not exceed the numbers allowed by the authorized
    scales.

Excess issues will be charged to the troops as barrack damages.

57. The barrack accountant will examine all gas-burners and
    electric lamps throughout the barracks once a month, at night,
    and will send a statement to the officer in charge of barracks showing
    how many burners or electric lamps he found wilfully damaged,
    and how many replaced by non-regulation articles. He will at
    once put in the proper lamp or burner (or component part), which
    will be charged against troops occupying the room.

58. At stations where oil is the illuminant the quantity as
    under will be admissible per lamp:—

Summer period (October to March), 1½ pints per week.

Winter period (April to September), 3 pints per week.

Barrack Expense Stores.

59. Expense stores include all articles of barrack, office, and
    drill-hall equipment, except fixtures supplied by B.C.D., a list of
    which will be found in the Regulations for Engineer Services, Part I.

60. For the purpose of facilitating inspections and stock-takings,
    and with a view to a more ready detection of loss or injury, officers
    in charge of barracks will see that all stores are at all times arranged—

(a.) As far as possible in the order in which they are entered
on the ledger (Book G. 51).

(b.) Every article of the same description together, unservice-
able stores alone excepted.

(c.) All articles, in bundles or rows of equal numbers, so far
as the space will permit.

61. To prevent embezzlement of public stores and to assist
    in the detection of persons concerned therein, the accountant will
    see that all stores are properly marked; and whenever the marks
    on the articles become faint from washing or from long use such
    articles will be restamped.

62. In the event of barrack stores being destroyed by a fire
    occurring in any barracks, storehouses, or other public buildings,
    the officer in charge of barracks will as soon as possible prepare
    a detailed statement of the stores or equipment destroyed in each
    room, and their value. This statement will be forwarded to the
    G.O.C., with the proceedings of the Board assembled to inquire into
    the origin of the fire, in order that sanction may be obtained for
    striking the articles in question off charge when necessary under
    the King’s Regulations (paras. 668 and 1030).

If the stores lost were held on inventory, the officer who held
them on charge will render the statement through the officer in
charge of barracks, who will verify it from the records in his posses-
sion.

63. Any excessive consumption of stores by the troops will
    be brought by the accountant to the notice of the officer in charge of
    barracks.

64. On all occasions of stores being received the accountants
    will ascertain whether the packages have been damaged in transit
    by wet, by being opened, or in any other way. Should any sus-
    picion arise as to their having been tampered with, the circumstances
    will at once be pointed out to the person conveying the stores, and
    the package will be opened, if requisite, in his presence and in that
    of a third person; a note of the circumstances will be made on the
    bill of lading or waybill. (See King’s Regulations, para. 1480, as
    to the form of receipt to be given to a carrier.) All consignments
    from stations to ordnance depots or elsewhere must be weighed and
    the weight marked on the outside of the package, a packing-note
    being put inside each parcel.

65. The wrappers and cords which are on bales and other
    packages will not be brought on ledger charge when received, but
    when removed from the packages will be accounted for periodically
    by weight on a certificate voucher according to the description of
    their material—viz., old canvas and cordage—and will be used as
    far as possible in the repacking of stores, or returned to Ordnance
    Stores as opportunity offers.

66. When packages of glass or earthenware articles are received
    a witness will, when practicable, be present at the opening to certify
    to the number of articles found broken. The certificate will state
    the number and description of each package and the articles con-
    tained in each. After approval by the G.O.C. the certificate will
    form the voucher for striking the broken articles off charge. When
    the number of broken articles is large, a special report will be made
    giving the name of the packer and of the station from which the
    consignment was received.

67. All stores expended will be entered monthly on book, to
    which will be attached the indent showing the purpose for which
    the stores were demanded, and, in the case of periodical issues,
    the date of last issue. The voucher will be countersigned by the
    officer in charge of barracks before being attached to the account.
    No articles will be shown as expended except such as are of a strictly
    consumable nature, as nails, cotton-waste, dubbing, &c.

68. The officer in charge of barracks will be held responsible
    that every precaution is taken to prevent stores suffering damage
    from vermin or in any other way. He will cause all issues of unused
    articles to be made from those consignments which have been
    longest in store, and will not allow stores of new pattern to be
    issued so long as those of old pattern are available.

69. Should the accountant, owing to the exigencies of the
    service, be required to take temporary charge of articles of public
    property not appertaining to barracks, he will not bring them on
    his ledger charge, but will obtain a correct list from the officer or
    other person handing them over; and, pending receipt of instruc-
    tions as to their disposal, he will adopt all necessary measures for
    the safe custody of the articles.

Equipment of Barracks.

70. Each expense-store accountant will, under the officer in
    charge of barracks, be responsible for the charge of the expense
    stores required for the complete equipment of the barracks,
    hospitals, military detention-barracks, offices, drill-halls, &c.,
    allotted to him, subject to the detailed instructions in paras. 71
    and 72 in respect to the use of such stores.

71. The schedule of barrack and hospital furniture issued with
    General Orders from time to time are the authorities for the issue
    of equipment, and no articles will be issued in excess of those
    allowed by schedules without the written approval of the G.O.C.,
    who will only give such approval in cases of real necessity and when
    they are available locally.

Officers in charge of barracks will keep a record of all issues
in excess of schedules in their district. This record will be reviewed
annually on the 1st December, each case inquired into, and articles
in excess of schedules no longer required withdrawn. A revised
list showing the articles still required will then be submitted to the
G.O.C. for authority to continue the issue for another year. (Ap-
pendix 2.)

72. Inventories (see Appendix 3) detailing the various articles
    of stores in officers’ quarters, soldiers’ rooms, offices, stables, and
    other buildings, will be supplied to corps on arrival at a station.
    These inventories, in duplicate—one copy pasted on a millboard,
    the other copy to be retained by barrack accountant—will be signed
    and dated by the accountant, the officer in charge of barracks,
    and the officer who takes over the rooms, and will not be altered
    except by direction of the officer in charge of barracks, whose
    initials (at the first opportunity), as well as those of the accountant,
    will be attached to any such alterations. Should one of these
    inventories be lost or destroyed by the troops a new one will be
    made out by the accountant from his records.

73. As the loss or defacement of inventories causes much
    trouble, officers in charge of barracks will be careful at all inspec-
    tions to see that they are safeguarded as directed in the King’s
    Regulations, and will draw the attention of the O.C. to any cases
    where the regulation is not strictly carried out.

74. Office records of the various inventories, on the Army
    form shown on form G. 67, in separate sets for each barrack or
    station, will be compiled by the accountant, who will be responsible
    for their custody. These records must be most carefully kept up
    to date so as to agree in every particular with the room inventories,
    and they will be open at all times to the inspection of the C.O.

75. The records will be taken round at half-yearly and march-
    ing-out inspections for the purpose of comparing them with the
    room inventories.

76. At each monthly inspection under para. 80 the officer in
    charge of barracks will check the figures in the records with the
    entries in the general abstract of inventories referred to in para. 77,
    and will initial and date the abstract to show that this has been
    done.

77. A general abstract of all stores on inventory, compiled
    from the records referred to in para. 74 and from the hospital and
    other inventories, will be kept by each accountant in book G. 52.
    The entries in this book will be in pencil only, so that the necessary
    alterations can be made in case of a change in inventory.

78. The abstract is intended to show the general total of stores
    issued on inventory by the accountant, and will be made out in
    original only; it will be kept under lock and key by the accountant,
    who will make the necessary alterations from time to time to