New Zealand Gazette – 1921 – No. 59

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✨ Naval Defence Regulations



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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 59

  1. An allowance of 3s. 6d. is payable to the warrant officer employed on instructional duties with classes of divers, for every hour he may be so employed under water. The maximum amount payable is not to exceed £2 per month to each officer so employed, and the voucher is specially to show the period under water.

17. Occasional Services.—Extra pay, subject to the following regulations, will be granted to officers, men, and boys of ships in commission when employed on extra duty outside the ship in which they are borne, under the special orders and* at the discretion of the Commodore Commanding or Senior Officer present, who is, however, never to sanction such employment except when it is absolutely necessary.

  1. Extra pay under Class I is not to be granted for occasional services, but only for work lasting some time which entails wear and tear of clothes.

  2. Supernumeraries borne for disposal in depots or stationary ships are not entitled to extra pay under either Class I or Class II, it being part of their ordinary duty to perform such work in any ship in which their services are required when so ordered by the Commodore Commanding or Senior Officer present.

Class of Work, and Circumstances under which Extra Pay may be paid. Ranks and Ratings. Rate to each Person per Diem.
I. General work. At the discretion of the Commodore or Senior Officer, in particular cases while employed to execute any work. 1. Lieutenants of the Navy and officers of corresponding or superior rank s. d. 3 0
2. Sub-lieutenants and officers of corresponding rank; warrant and subordinate officers 2 0
3. Chief petty officers; petty officers; warrant officers, Class II, and sergeants of marines 1 3
4. Leading rates; able seamen; stokers, 1st and 2nd class; corporals and privates of marines; and others whose substantive pay is not less than 5s. 6d. a day 1 0
5. Ordinary seamen; ordinary seamen, 2nd class; stokers, 3rd class; and others of the ship’s company 0 9
6. Boys 0 3
7. Lieutenants (E.), engineer-lieutenants, and ordnance-lieutenants 6 0
8. Sub-lieutenants (E.) 5 0
9. Commissioned engineers, warrant engineers, commissioned mechanics, warrant mechanics, commissioned ordnance officers, and warrant ordnance officers 4 0
II. Engineering work. While employed on manual labour in—(a) repairing the machinery of boilers or (b) other engineering work of ships; and artisans employed at their trades. 10. Chief artificers of all branches and chief mechanics 3 6
11. Artificers of all branches and mechanics 3 0
12. Chief shipwrights 3 6
13. Shipwrights 3 0
14. All other artisan and armourer ratings 2 6
15. Stokers and all other men employed as mechanics 1 6

“Artisans” shall include all men employed as such, whatever their ratings may be on the ship’s books—viz., as carpenters, sailmakers, blacksmiths, coopers, armourers, shipwrights, plumbers, and painters.

  1. For the purpose of the payment of the above allowances the day is to be reckoned as of ten hours, including intermediate dinner-hour.

18. Work in Double Bottoms.—Extra pay at the following rates is to be paid to all persons, whatever their rating, employed in scraping, repainting, or other laborious work in confined spaces as defined below, or in the supervision of such work :—

(a.) All double-bottom compartments.

(b.) All wing compartments not fitted with a ventilating-system.

(c.) Under engine-bearers and under boilers.

(d.) In vessels other than torpedo-boats, destroyers, and similar craft : All compartments whose entrance and exit are by one or more ordinary manholes, or by rectangular watertight hatches not hinged but secured by bolts or studs and nuts, and whether such entrance be from a flat or from a bulkhead. Bunkers when empty are not to be regarded as confined spaces, but if more than two-thirds full and work has to be done in the bunker in this condition the limited space over the coal after it has been trimmed may be regarded as a confined space for purposes of this regulation.



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🛡️ Regulations under the Naval Defence Act, 1913 (continued from previous page)

🛡️ Defence & Military
20 June 1921
Naval Defence, Regulations, Pay, Allowances, Diving, Extra Pay