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✨ Post and Telegraph Department Regulations

Aug. 8.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2007

Any article not the property of the Department or the personal property of an officer found on departmental premises is to be sent in a registered letter or package to the Secretary, with a report stating where and how it was found. Local controlling officers are, however, authorized to keep such articles in their personal charge for a week, and to deliver them up to the owners on application. (See Rule 303.)

MILITARY TRAINING.

Officers of the Post and Telegraph Department are liable to undergo the following military training:—
(a.) Liability.—For persons—
14 to 18 years of age: As for Senior Cadets.
18 to 25 years of age: If stationed at Auckland, Wellington, or Christchurch, to undergo instruction in the duties of a Signal Corps described in (b).
For officers stationed at other places see Rule 95.
25 to 30 years of age: In the Reserve.
(b.) Instruction.—
(1.) Use of all visual and mechanical signalling apparatus used by troops on the field.
(2.) Knowledge and use of military forms, ciphers, codes, &c.
(3.) Wireless-telegraph movable stations.
(4.) Knowledge and use of ground and air lines used by troops in the field.
(5.) Electricity as applied to field uses.
(c.) Training Period.—Post and Telegraph employees to undergo the same number of half-day parades and drills and exercises as laid down for Infantry (continuous training in camp excepted).
(d.) Musketry.—To undergo the same musketry course as is laid down in the Annual Musketry Course for Engineers.
(e.) Registration.—To register, and to be sworn and attested and to be under discipline as laid down for Territorials.
Officers of the Department of Territorial age—i.e., eighteen to twenty-five years—at places other than Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch, where Signal Training Depots are established, will be posted to Territorial units for duty as Regimental signallers.
(a.) Local controlling officers concerned must arrange the duties of their staffs so that officers liable to military service may attend parades regularly. The duties of such officers are to be arranged so that the majority of them will be able to attend the parades. Failures to attend parades are treated as breaches of departmental discipline, and severely dealt with. Officers commanding the depot companies of the New Zealand Corps of Signals will supply local controlling officers with particulars of parades, and from time to time notify alterations. These notifications are to be treated as official, and initialled as read by officers concerned.

(b.) Local controlling officers are to advise the senior local officer of the New Zealand Corps of Signals as soon as they learn that a member of the corps under their control has left the service, or is awaiting transfer. A member of the corps on arrival at his station after transfer is required to notify the district officer commanding the corps that he is prepared to continue his military training. Failure to make such notification is punishable by fine in a Civil Court. Local controlling officers are to remind new arrivals of their duty in this respect.

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