1832

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 55

Paragraph 70 is hereby amended by the addition after the word "by-laws" of "Cab or taxi hire is not admissible unless it is certified that the officer was accompanied by military or other personal gear which could not be carried."

Paragraph 75 is hereby amended to read as follows :

"When travelling on the public service all officers shall be entitled to sleeping-berths on trains, and, in the case of those holding the following appointments, to deck-berths on steamers also,—

General Officers.

Chief of the Staff.

Staff Officers in charge 'G,' 'A,' and 'Q.'

Director of Artillery.

Director of Ordnance Services.

Director of Financial Services.

Director of Medical Services.

Officers at Command Headquarters—O.C. Commands.

Chief Staff Officers."

Paragraph 90 is hereby amended by deleting "O.C. Commands will requisition for all bicycles to Headquarters, Wellington"; and by adding at the end of the paragraph "The above allowance shall be paid only to the officer, warrant or non-commissioned officer, actually in possession of the bicycle, and shall be claimed annually in arrear, or for such less time as the bicycle was in actual use."

Paragraph 95 is hereby amended by altering the rate for motor-bicycles to read "3d.," and by substituting "G.O.C." for "G.O. in charge Administration."

Paragraph 114 is hereby amended by deleting "They shall not draw camp or field allowance."

Paragraphs 55, 57, 82 (b), 93, 203, and 214 are hereby amended by substituting "G.O.C." for "G.O. i/c A."

Paragraphs 62, 106, 125, 155, and 209 are hereby amended by deleting "or G.O. i/c A."

The following new regulations are hereby made :—

51A. All members of the R.N.Z.A. and N.Z. Permanent Staff who are actually employed to instruct in physical training will each be granted an allowance of £1. 5s. per annum in lieu of the issue from Ordnance Stores of one pair of rubber shoes and one white jersey.

This allowance will be made only to Instructors actually employed upon such duties, and the mere fact that an Instructor is qualified as such does not entitle him to the allowance unless he is actively employed in connection with physical-training duties. A certificate to this effect by the O.C. Detachment or Area Officer must accompany each claim.

The amount is payable in advance as from the 1st April in each year.

67A. For any portion of a day the rate shall be one twenty-fourth of the full daily rate for each hour's absence, provided the whole period of absence from Headquarters exceeds twenty-four hours.

In computing the time of absence, a fraction of an hour, if less than half an hour, shall not be taken into account, but half an hour or more shall be reckoned as one hour.

Whenever the G.O.C. is satisfied that any lesser travelling-allowance than the scale rate should suffice, he may act accordingly.

REGIMENTAL BANDS GRANT.

177A. An annual grant of £75 will be made towards the upkeep of all approved regimental bands other than bugle, drum and fife, or pipe bands. Where a doubt exists as to the eligibility of any particular band to draw this grant the matter must be submitted to General Headquarters for decision.

Payment will be made annually in advance on the 1st April in each year.

The provisions of regulations 161 and 164 to 177 will be adhered to in so far as they are applicable.

233. A Paymaster or any member of the A.P.C. will not take charge of any regimental or other funds not belonging to the public, nor shall he act on the committee controlling the expenditure of the same.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 29th day of June, 1923.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Lands permanently reserved.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

WHEREAS by the three-hundred-and-twenty-first section of the Land Act, 1908, it is enacted that the Governor-General may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

And whereas by the three-hundred-and-twenty-second section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said three-hundred-and-twenty-first section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas by the sixty-ninth section of the Land for Settlements Act, 1908, it is further provided that the Governor-General may from time to time, as he thinks fit, set aside reserves for any specified public purpose out of lands acquired under the last-mentioned Act. provided that no land so acquired shall be set aside for endowments:

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the Warrants the dates of which are specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notifications of which were published in the Gazette specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Acts for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule:

Now, therefore, I, John Rushworth, Viscount Jellicoe, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by the said Acts, do hereby permanently reserve the lands so temporarily reserved as aforesaid, and enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, being the same purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

First Column.

DESCRIPTION OF RESERVES.

Second Column.

Third Column.

Fourth Column

• Survey district.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 30th day of June, 1923.

W. NOSWORTHY, for Minister of Lands.