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“(11.) Territorial Force N.C.O.s and privates employed on duty in connection with Annual Prize Meetings shall be paid from the funds of the Association, and the rates of pay shall be the same as those laid down for equivalent ranks in the Permanent Force.

“Travelling warrants shall be issued by the Department in the same manner as for the Permanent Force.

“Civilian labour shall be paid for from the funds of the Association. Rates of pay will be decided upon by the Executive Committee.

“(12.) All orders issued by the Executive Officer in his capacity as Camp Commandant shall be issued under authority of section 97, Defence Act, 1909.

“(13.) The Camp Commandant shall issue Camp Standing Orders dealing with the following subjects:—
(a.) Discipline:
(b.) Sanitation:
(c.) Daily routine:
(d.) Interior economy:
(e.) Issue and receipt, care and custody, of Government stores:
(f.) Such other instructions as may be deemed necessary for the efficient and economical control of the camp and ranges.

“(14.) The Camp Commandant, assisted by the Adjutant, is responsible for the discipline and administration of the camp and ranges.

“(15.) Equipment for camp and ranges shall be issued to and received from the Camp Commandant under the authorities and in accordance with the instructions laid down in the N.Z. Equipment, Ordnance, Camp, and Barrack Regulations and Regulations for the Military Forces of New Zealand.

“(16.) The Executive Officer shall be responsible for submitting annual estimates of his requirements in accordance with the instructions laid down in the above-mentioned regulations.

“(17.) To meet the cost of messing, equipment, and quarters each officer, N.C.O., private, and member of a Rifle Club shall pay in advance, and no entry shall be held to have been made until full payment of the camp fee has been received by the Executive Officer or his duly authorized representatives. The camp fees will be as follows:— Per Day.

s. d.
Officers and officials of Rifle Clubs .. .. 4 0
Members of Rifle Clubs .. .. 3 0
N.C.O.s and privates, Permanent and Territorial Forces, including Cadets .. .. 2 0

“The Executive Officer shall be responsible that the sums of money received under the several headings mentioned above are paid into the Bank of New Zealand to the credit of the Public Account, and that the bank receipt with a detailed statement covering the same is forwarded within twenty-eight days to the Director of Financial Services, as directed in sub-para. (20).

“(18.) Officers of the Permanent and Territorial Forces detailed for duty in connection with the Annual Prize Meeting who are entitled to draw camp or messing allowance as laid down in Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations shall pay the sum of 2s. per day to the Officer in Charge Catering, Officers’ Mess.

“(19.) The voucher claiming payment of travelling and other allowances in connection with the above duty must, before payment, bear the following certificate:—

“I hereby certify that the sum of 2s. per day for period from (has not) has been [Strike out whichever words are inapplicable] paid to the Officer in charge Catering, Officers’ Mess.

“If the sum due has not been paid, the Paymaster will deduct the amount due and subsequently credit the officer in Charge Catering, Officers’ Mess.

“(20.) The Executive Officer is responsible that the money required to defray the cost of messing, equipment, and quarters of the following:—

“(a.) Officers and officials of Rifle Clubs who Per Day. elect to render honorary service during s. d.
Annual Prize Meeting .. .. 4 0
“(b.) Members of Rifle Clubs .. .. 3 0
“(c.) N.C.O.s and privates detailed for duty in connection with the Annual Prize Meeting 2 0
“(d.) Civilian labour.. .. .. 2 0

is paid from the funds of the Association, and that the sum due in respect of the above personnel is paid into the Public Account at the bank, and that the bank receipt, accompanied by a detailed statement under the several headings mentioned above, is forwarded within twenty-eight days after completion of the meeting, to the Director of Financial Services, General Headquarters, Wellington. The Director of Financial Services shall credit the same to the several accounts. The Director of Equipment and Ordnance Stores and Officer in Charge Messing shall render a return to the Director of Financial Services showing the sums due to the respective accounts.

“(21.) All charges for messing, equipment, and quarters will include days of arrival and departure.

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“(22.) Competitors who are unable to attend the meeting through illness, or other unforeseen causes which the Executive may consider sufficient, will be allowed a refund of camp fees paid, less the minimum charge as mentioned below:—

s. d.
Officers and officials of Rifle Clubs .. .. 10 0
Members of Rifle Clubs .. .. 7 6
N.C.O.s and privates of Permanent and Territorial Forces and Cadets .. .. 5 0

“No refund of camp fees will be made after quarters in camp have been allotted.

“(23.) A canteen in the Dominion Rifle Association Camp shall be established as a branch of the Main Camp Canteen, under the jurisdiction of the Officer in Charge Canteens. The accounts shall be kept clear and distinct from the Main Canteen accounts. After the completion of the prize-meeting the accounts shall be closed, balanced, and audited. A certified copy of the balance-sheet and cash account shall be forwarded to the G.O.C. within twenty-eight days after the completion of the meeting.

“(24.) After payment of all expenses in connection with the running of the canteen the profits (if any) shall be allocated as follows:—

“(a.) To make good the value of all deficiencies, loss or damage to public property not traceable to individuals. Every endeavour must be made to trace the loss, deficiency, or damage against the individuals concerned.

“(b.) The balance (if any) to be paid into the funds of the Dominion Rifle Association.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this twenty-eighth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, in the presence of

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.

Amending Regulations governing the Disposal of Officers, Warrant Officers, and Non-commissioned Officers invalided from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

LIVERPOOL, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority conferred on me by the Defence Act, 1909, its amendments, and the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces Act, 1915, I, Arthur William de Brito Savile, Earl of Liverpool, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby amend, in the manner and to the extent set forth in the Schedule hereto, the regulations published in the New Zealand Gazette of the eighth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, governing the disposal of officers, warrant officers, and non-commissioned officers invalided from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

SCHEDULE.

1. AFTER 35B (c) add “Provided always that no officer will be struck off the strength of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force while still undergoing medical treatment for wounds or injuries received or disease contracted in his employment as a member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, unless and until a Medical Board recommends that he be struck off the strength of that Force.”

2. Paragraph 35E is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “still unfit for active or home service,” the words “at the time the Board recommends that they be struck off the strength of that Force”; also by deleting the following words in the third line “three months after their arrival in New Zealand,” and the words “this will take effect from a date three months after their arrival in the Dominion” in the penultimate and last lines of the paragraph.

3. Paragraph 35F is hereby cancelled.

4. Paragraph 35J is hereby cancelled, and the following substituted:—

“35J. Warrant officers and non-commissioned officers of the R.N.Z.A. or N.Z.P.S. who, three months after landing in the Dominion, are declared by a Medical Board to be still unfit for active or home service will be discharged from the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and reabsorbed into the R.N.Z.A. or the N.Z.P.S. with their rank and seniority therein, when their cases will be considered by Headquarters with a view to their retirement on superannuation, and when application may be made by them for a pension under the War Pensions Act, 1915, and its amendments.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this twenty-first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, in the presence of—

J. ALLEN,
Minister of Defence.