Feb. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 369

New Zealand Military Forces.—Financial Instructions and Allowance Regulations amended.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authority conferred on me by the Defence Act, 1909, and its amendments, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby amend or revoke certain regulations made under that Act, as described in the Schedule hereto, and do also revoke the regulations made on the second day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty, and in lieu thereof do hereby make the regulations as set out in the said Schedule; and I do hereby declare that the amendments, revocations, and additional regulations hereby made shall take effect as from the date of the gazetting hereof.

SCHEDULE.

FINANCIAL INSTRUCTIONS AND ALLOWANCE REGULATIONS FOR THE NEW ZEALAND MILITARY FORCES.

PARAGRAPH 76 is hereby amended by deleting the words “Temporary rank will carry the pay and allowances of substantive rank, and the increments thereof, excepting where the service in temporary rank is broken for periods of three months and over,” and substituting therefor “Temporary rank shall qualify the holders for the minimum pay and allowances of the corresponding substantive rank.”

Paragraph 153A is hereby revoked.

The title to paragraph 274 is hereby revoked.

Paragraphs 274 and 276 (A) are hereby revoked.

Paragraph 44 is hereby amended by adding after the word “Duplicate” the words “show the reason for the non-production of the original”; and by substituting “Director of Financial Services” for “Paymaster-General.”

Paragraph 111 is hereby amended to read as follows:—

111. (a.) Travelling-allowance at the following rates shall be paid. Such allowance shall include meals and portage, and shall be paid only on defined absence from residence or headquarters. (Travelling-allowance shall not be drawn while under canvas, or while in receipt of camp allowance, or while with troops who are rationed:—

Per Diem.
£ s. d.
General Officer Commanding .. .. 1 5 0
Brigadier-General .. .. 1 2 6
Colonel or Lieutenant-Colonel .. .. 1 0 0
Major (receiving salary of over £600 per annum) .. .. .. 1 0 0
Major (receiving salary of £501–£600 per annum) .. .. .. 0 17 6
Captain or Lieutenant .. .. 0 15 0
Warrant officer or non-commissioned officer of or above the rank of sergeant .. 0 12 6
All other ranks below that of sergeant .. 0 11 0

(b.) Travelling-allowance at the following rates shall be paid to members of the New Zealand Army Nursing Service while travelling on duty:—

£ s. d.
Matron-in-Chief or Matron .. .. 1 0 0
Charge Sister, Sister, or Staff Nurse .. 0 15 0
Masseuse .. .. According to rank.
V.A.D. .. .. .. 0 11 0

Paragraph 112 (b) is hereby amended to read as follows:—

Except as provided in paras. 153 (a) and 153 (b), officers up to and including the rank of Colonel, warrant officers, non-commissioned officers above the rank of sergeant, and members of the N.Z. Army Nursing Service, travelling by train may claim, in lieu of the ordinary travelling-allowance, an allowance of £1 for the day of departure or return, provided they have incurred the cost of a sleeping-berth on the train, a receipt for which must be produced. Such allowance shall cover a period of twenty-four hours from the time of departure or return, or the whole period occupied in travelling if such period is less than twenty-four hours.

Paragraph 117 is hereby amended by adding before the words “the maximum period” the words “unless otherwise approved by the G.O. in charge Administration.”

Paragraph 237 is hereby amended by deleting the words “and Senior Cadet Companies.”

Paragraph 238 is hereby amended to read as follows:—

(1.) The maintenance grant for all Senior Cadet companies in a group other than secondary-school units shall be consolidated into one account, and shall be kept in an official banking account, to be operated upon by the Group Commander or Area Officer.

(2.) The maintenance grant of secondary-school units shall be kept in an official banking account to be administered by the respective officers commanding such units.

(3.) No moneys other than the maintenance grant shall be paid into the accounts referred to in subparas. (1) and (2) above.

The title of paragraph 273 is hereby amended to read “Officers of the N.Z. Permanent Forces.”

Paragraph 273 is hereby amended by substituting the words “New Zealand Permanent Forces” for the words “New Zealand Staff Corps and Officers of the Royal New Zealand Artillery.”

The title “Royal New Zealand Artillery” over paragraph 275 is hereby amended to read “Warrant Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, and Men of the New Zealand Permanent Forces.”

Paragraph 275 is hereby amended by substituting the words “New Zealand Permanent Forces” for the letters “R.N.Z.A.”

Paragraphs 277 (B) and 278 (C) are hereby amended by deleting the letters “(B)” and “(C)” respectively.

Section XII is hereby amended by altering the title to read “Section XII.—Sick-leave: N.Z. Permanent Forces.”

Paragraph 281 is hereby amended by substituting the word “sick-leave” for “leave of absence.”

The following new regulations are hereby made:—

153A. The following officers when travelling on the public service shall be entitled to deck berths on steamers and sleeping-berths on trains at the public expense:—

Officers at General Headquarters—
General officers.
Director of Military Training.
Staff officers in charge “G,” “A,” and “Q” branches.
Director of Artillery.
Director of Ordnance Services.
Director of Financial Services.
Director of Medical Services.

Officers at District Headquarters—
Officers commanding districts.
Chief staff officers.

229A. In computing the amount of maintenance grant to be paid to units, the balance in hand at the end of the training year shall be deducted from the amount which the unit is entitled to receive as hereinafter provided.

276 (1.) Warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and men prevented from performing their duty through wounds, injury, or sickness directly attributable to the performance of their duty shall be termed “first-class sick,” and shall receive their full pay.

(2.) Warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and men prevented from performing their duty through ordinary sickness or accident while off duty shall be termed “second-class sick,” and shall receive their full pay, except that in cases where medical attendance or hospital treatment is received a total stoppage of 1s. 6d. per diem shall be made for every day on which such attendance or treatment is received.

(3.) Warrant officers, non-commissioned officers, and men prevented from performing their duty through disability contracted by their own misconduct shall be termed “third-class sick,” and a total stoppage of 4s. per diem shall be made from their pay.

NOTE.—Subparagraphs (2) and (3) above are subject to the provisions of Section XII of these regulations, and no stoppages under these subparagraphs shall be made while the soldier is in receipt of reduced pay under the said section.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 25th day of January, 1921, in the presence of—

R. H. RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Regulations for Deer-shooting, Auckland.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

IN exercise of the powers vested in me by the Animals Protection Act, 1908 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby make the following regulations prescribing the deer-shooting season in the Auckland Acclimatization District—comprising all that area in the North Auckland, Auckland, Taranaki, and Wellington Land Districts bounded by a line commencing at the mouth of the Mokau River, and proceeding thence along high-water mark, Tasman Sea, in a northerly direction generally (crossing the mouths of all harbours and rivers by the way) to the Kaipara Harbour entrance to a point midway between Kaipara Heads; thence up the centre of the channels, Kaipara Harbour, leading to the mouth of Oruawhero River; thence up the middle of that river, Topuni River, and Hakaru River to the north-west corner of Section 33, Oruawhero Parish; thence along the south-western boundaries of Sections 65, 64, 61, 60, 57, 56, 51, and 50, all in Mangawhai Parish, and along the eastern boundary of the last-mentioned section to a public road; thence south-easterly along that road to a point opposite south-west corner of Section 92 in the aforesaid parish; thence across that road and proceeding along the western boundaries generally of said Section 92 and