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II. EXAMINATION, REPAIR, AND ASSESSMENT OF DAMAGES.

143. Repairs and work performed in the armourers' shops, as
     well as in the armouries, will be executed under the orders given
     by the officer in charge to the senior armourer.

144. When arms, machine guns, and machine-gun equipment
     are beyond local repair they will be cleaned, well oiled (particularly
     under the barrels), and forwarded to the D. of E. & O.S., Wellington.
     On all vouchers for machine-gun equipment a note will be
     made showing whether the stores are or are not to be reissued.

145. All returned arms which cannot be dealt with locally
     under paragraph 143 will be brought on charge as "doubtful," sent
     to the D. of E. & O.S., Wellington, for disposal so far as the unit
     that returned them is concerned, and replaced, unless surplus to
     establishment, by the issue of serviceable articles.

146. Small-arm components returned by troops which on
     examination are found to be unserviceable, and components con-
     demned by department armourers at Wellington, will be broken
     up and brought to produce locally; their destruction will be effected
     by their being heated in a forge and then hammered.

147. Arms condemned as unserviceable by armourers, and arms
     returned by troops and found unserviceable, will be stripped to
     their component parts-e.g., bodies removed from unserviceable
     barrels, or vice versa; hilts removed from broken sword-blades-
     the serviceable and repairable parts returned to store, and the
     unserviceable dealt with as above.

148. The voucher or document upon which the transaction
     is recorded will be certified to the effect that all the items have
     been thoroughly destroyed, by the officer under whose authority
     they have been condemned. In the case of arms and components
     in charge of units condemned by inspection department viewers
     and ordered to be returned to store, the order directing their re-
     turn will be attached to the store receipt voucher which deals with
     the transaction.

149. The marking of barrels in any unauthorized way is strictly
     forbidden, and charges will be made against all services on this
     account, and for all marks on arms other than those provided for
     by regulation.

In all cases of doubt as to the disposal of arms and machine
guns, the question will be referred to the D. of E. & O.S.

150. The following repairs will be undertaken locally by the
     Ordnance Department at stations where the duty can be carried
     out by competent armourers :-

III. RIFLES AND CARRIERS.

151. (i.) Replacing components, including barrels with
     bodies.
     (ii.) Adjustment of loading and firing positions, M.M.
     and M.E. arms.
     (iii.) Renewing lines on sight-slides, caps, and wind-
     gauges.
     (iv.) Repairing and splicing butts, fore-ends, and hand-
     guards.
     (v.) Floating out barrel-groove of rust-stained fore-ends.
     (vi.) Cleaning barrels that are rusty inside or outside.

Rifles and Carbines.

(vii.) Testing bore of barrels for wear by rejecting plugs.
(viii.) Unbreeching and replacing unserviceable barrels or
bodies.

Swords, Sword-bayonets, &c.

(ix.) Polishing by power.

Machine Guns.

(x.) Replacing components.
(xi.) Repairing and adjusting fore sights.
(xii.) Repainting guns.

152. When damaged arms are ordered to be sent for special
     examination, labels will be attached to them giving a reference
     to the orders under which they are sent, and a copy of the decision
     of any Board or Court of Inquiry which may have been held regard
     ing them will be attached to the vouchers.

153. All charges for damaged arms returned to store, as well
     as deficiencies, will be assessed locally in accordance with the fol-
     lowing scale:-

Repairable articles--
Rifles or carbin s--
Cleaning barrel (to be cleaned by armourer) s. d.
Barrel slightly rusted (to be cleaned by
armourer) 0 9
Pistol-barrel 1 0
Pistol-cylinder 1 6
Swords, sword-bayonets, and dirks, all patterns--
Blade slightly cut on edge or rusty 0 9
Rusty or damaged hilts or sockets 1 6
Scabbards, leather, sword-bayonets 1 0
Scabbards, steel, all patterns, rusty or dented or
both 0 6
Lances, steel parts, rusty or damaged.. 2 6
Lances, other defects 0 9
Tubes, aiming, rusty or slightly damaged .. 1 0

154. The charge for barrels of rifles and carbines cord-worn
     at muzzle or breech, if they are not rendered unserviceable thereby,
     will be 1s. If cord-worn at both muzzle and breech a charge of
     2s. will be made.

155. When a charge for a complete rifle, or for any of its com-
     ponents except the barrel, is made, the date of issue will be taken
     from the heel-plate on M.L.M. and M.L.E. long rifle and body of
     M.L.E. short.

156. Special dummy cartridges, as described in paragraphs 6489
     and 9518, "List of Changes in War Material," will be supplied
     for the use of armourers or armament artificers in testing the
     hoppers, belts, cartridges, feeders, cartridge-carriers, &c., of the
     various machine guns in their charge, to ensure these appurtenances
     and components being correct and free from obstruction before
     firing the gun. These cartridges will be issued to each armourer
     or armament artificer for each nature of machine gun which he
     has in his charge. They are not to be used for drill purposes.

IV. BROWNING ARMS.

157. General directions in regard to browning arms will be
     found in the Instructions for Armourers, &c.

The several ingredients for making "mixture for browning
arms" will be supplied in the proportion shown in the following
table, and care must be taken to demand by quarts, gallons, or
larger quantities:-
Water, rain 1 gallon.
Acid, nitric, commercial 64 ounces.
Steel, tincture of 13
Wine, pure spirits of 5

About 3 pints of mixture is sufficient to brown 100 stand of
arms. Materials for less than 1 quart of mixture will not be sup-
plied. Rain-water will be invariably used for dissolving the in-
gredients, which will be placed in a vessel, when mixing, in order
above shown.

Section V. Supply and Receipt of Stores and Clothing.

1. ESTIMATES.

158. The D. of E. & O.S. will apply to officers and depart-
     ments authorized to draw stores to furnish him with detailed annual
     estimates of their requirements during the ensuing financial year.

159. He will see that the above estimated demands furnish
     information upon every essential point of detail; that the articles
     are described in accordance with the nomenclature of the current-
     priced Vocabulary; and that articles for which no authorized
     nomenclature exists are shown separately in the section to which
     they would naturally belong, after the service articles in that
     section, and with the words "not in Vocabulary" prefixed. Draw-
     ings and specifications, where necessary, will be annexed to obviate
     the necessity for further reference to the station.

160. He will see that the estimate from each corps or depart-
     ment, except the annual estimates for expense stores, shows the
     data on which it is prepared and the purpose for which the articles
     are required, as well as the average annual consumption and the
     numbers on hand.

161. The estimates will also show the cost of any article pro-
     posed to be made by regimental tradesmen, or to be procured
     locally at stations where there is no representative of the Ordnance
     Department.

162. The estimates will contain references to any special appli-
     cations and orders respecting the stores estimated for.

163. Should the D. of E. & O.S., having regard to the con-
     sumption of previous years, consider any estimate to be excessive,
     or on any other account to require revision, he will return it with
     his remarks in writing to the officer who rendered it. If that officer
     should desire to adhere to his estimate as originally framed the
     D. of E. & O.S. will submit the matter to the superior authority.

164. The D. of E. & O.S., after obtaining the approval of the
     superior authority to the demand for stores, will proceed as laid
     down in paragraph 113, "Regulations for the Administration and
     Equipment of Camp and Barracks."

165. The contracts for these services will be placed annually,
     and the contractors will supply direct to the Ordnance depots as
     ordered.

Requisitions, including quarterly requisitions from the R.N.Z.Α.
and Electric-light Sections, are to be made on the Ordnance Officer
of the district concerned, who will check each item in the requisi-
tion, ensuring that the items asked for are in accordance with exist-
ing schedules (or schedules which will hereafter be laid down);
or, if the service required has not yet been scheduled, then the
A.Q.M.G. must satisfy himself that the items requisitioned for are
essential, and certify in the body of the requisition accordingly.

The requisition will then be passed to the Ordnance Officer
of the district, who will issue; and if not in store, will arrange to
procure.

II. RECEIPT OF STORES.

166. On all occasions of stores being received, the officer or
     others receiving them will ascertain whether the packages have
     been damaged in transit (whether by wet, or by being opened,
     or in any other way). Should any suspicion arise as to their having