1618
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 59

22. Docking and Undocking Men-of-war.—An allowance of £1 shall be payable to the senior shipwright rank or rating in charge of the docking or undocking of one of H.M. ships of the New Zealand Division at a private yard.

23. Interpreters.—Officers who may be on the official list of those qualified as interpreters shall be paid the allowance authorized by the King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions when appointed for such duties.

24. Ratings acting as interpreter shall receive an allowance of 1s. an hour, with a maximum payment of 5s. for any one day, whilst actually performing the duties.

25. Tropical Allowance.—Tropical allowance of 1s. 6d. per day is payable within the tropics to all engine-room, officers’ cook, and ship’s cook ratings (excluding Kroomen and other Africans and Asiatics) when actually employed and doing duty in an engine-room, stokehold, or galley. It is not payable when fires are extinguished, nor when the ratings are checked from duty for any reason.

26. The allowance is also payable to ratings (excluding Natives as above) of all other branches when continuously employed (a) in the interior of submarines, (b) in the galleys of surface craft, and (c) in engine-rooms, stokeholds, boiler-rooms, and auxiliary machinery compartments in connection with the engine-room department of surface craft. Payment is to be confined to periods when steam is raised, or internal-combustion engines are in use in ships and boats (except open motor-boats), or when galley fires are burning.

27. Temporary Stokers.—Seamen and others (except seamen and stokers under training in the stokehold) temporarily doing duty as stokers are to be granted extra pay at the rate of 6d. per day.

28. If employed within the tropics, tropical allowance is also payable.

29. Recruiting: Capitation and Medical Fees.—Military warrant or non-commissioned officers of the instructional staff who act as Recruiting Officers for the Navy Department may be granted a capitation allowance of £1 for each recruit finally entered for service in the New Zealand Division.

30. A fixed fee not exceeding one guinea per capita shall be payable to medical practitioners for the examination of Naval recruits at places where there is no Naval Medical Officer or Surgeon and Agent available.

31. Officiating Judge-Advocate.—The allowance to an officiating Judge-Advocate of a Court-martial is as follows:—

£ s. d.
If the Court shall sit one day only .. .. 4 0 0
If more than one day, then for each day .. .. 3 0 0

2. He is not, however, to be paid more than the sum of £10 10s. for any one day during which he officiates, whatever number of Courts-martial he may attend on that day.

3. Provost-Marshal.—The allowance to the Provost-Marshal at a Court-martial or Disciplinary Court is as follows:—

£ s. d.
(a.) For each day the Court shall sit, for each Court 0 10 0
(b.) For each day, exclusive of those days on which
the Court has sat, during which he may have
an offender in his charge: for each offender 0 4 0

Subject, however, as regards (b) to a maximum of £1 a day. He is not to be paid for the custody of any one or more of the offenders after the Court is dissolved.

29. Disciplinary Courts: Clerk of Court.—The allowance to the Clerk of the Court officiating at a Disciplinary Court, subject to the maximum daily limit of £10 10s., is as follows:—

£ s. d.
If the Court shall sit one day only .. .. 2 0 0
If the Court shall sit more than one day, then for
each day .. .. .. 1 10 0

30. Shorthand-writer at Courts-martial, &c.—An allowance at the rate of 9d. per folio of 100 words (to cover both notes and transcription), with a minimum payment of 5s., shall be payable to any officer or man acting under competent authority as shorthand-writer at Courts-martial, Disciplinary Courts, Courts of Inquiry, and other important investigations.