JUNE 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1617

(e.) In torpedo-boats, destroyers, and similar craft: Forepeak and collision compartment; chain-locker bilges; under flats, or in bilges of magazines, shell and store rooms; air-space between magazines and boiler-rooms; under and behind boilers and engines; coal-bunkers when more than half-full; oil-fuel tanks and water-spaces; the space in any store-room which is nearly filled with stores in which a man may have to work, but not for the purpose of placing or receiving stores; stern-gland compartment; after compartment.

(f.) Interior of steam-turbines from which only the examination or man-hole doors have been removed—

Ordinary rate, 9d. per diem; within the tropics, or when in the Red Sea or Persian Gulf between the 1st April and 30th November (inclusive), 1s. per diem.

2. A record of the work in detail is to be kept as provided for in the record-book and forms supplied for the purpose, and a full description of all spaces and of the nature of the work done is to be given on the extra pay sub-voucher which accompanies the ship’s ledger.

3. Should work not be done satisfactorily the extra payment will not be made.

4. For the purpose of the payment of the above allowance the day is to be reckoned as of eight hours, including intermediate dinner-hour.

19. Allowances when Sick on Shore.—When officers and men fall sick whilst on leave and are unfit to travel, payment of leave allowance shall cease, and sick-allowance of 6s. per diem become payable from the date sickness commences, provided that the illness is not the result of imprudence, carelessness, or neglect. In the latter case neither leave allowance nor sick-allowance shall be granted, but if the case be attended by a Surgeon and Agent his fees shall be payable from public funds.

2. Sick-allowance may be granted up to a limit of ninety-one days, which period may be extended in exceptional cases. After thirty days the approval of the Naval Board to the continuance of the allowance must be obtained. All payments are to be supported by a certificate from the medical practitioner who attended the case, setting out the nature of the disability and the period under treatment and unfit to travel. Payment is to be made on a voucher through the Cash Account.

3. Sick-allowance shall cover cost of lodging, rations, medical attendance and medicines, and when a duly appointed Surgeon and Agent is in charge of a case his authorized charges for visits and medicines shall be deducted from the total amount payable.

4. In serious cases, when the visits of the medical practitioner attending the case are necessarily of such frequency that his fees absorb the bulk of the sick-allowance payable, the allowance may, on the authority of the Naval Board, be increased to such amount as is necessary to cover these fees plus payment of leave allowance for the period the officer or man was sick and unfit to travel.

5. The person concerned shall be required to produce the medical practitioner’s receipted account, or if attended by a Surgeon and Agent his account should have been received on board, before final payment of the allowance is made. Advances may, however, be made during the continuance of the illness, at the discretion of the Commanding Officer, in order that the patient may have ready money for his maintenance during his illness and be in a position to meet the medical practitioner’s account.

6. The provisions of the King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions regarding the furnishing of medical certificates and other points not dealt with herein shall apply in the New Zealand Division.

20. Pilotage.—Pilotage will be payable to Navigating Officers at such rates as may be approved by the Naval Board, subject to the general conditions laid down in the King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions, and to such further conditions as the Naval Board may prescribe.

21. Adjustment of Compasses.—Officers employed in swinging ships, other than their own, for adjustment of compasses shall be eligible for the following allowances:—

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