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(3.) At every office of a filing officer so appointed there shall be kept a file for claims, and the filing officer is responsible that a copy of every claim certified as a true copy is filed thereon before forwarding any claim for final certification. Third copies of claims will be endorsed “Copy filed.”

(4.) Certifying officers are responsible that no claim is sent forward for payment unless it is ascertained that a true copy is so filed.

(5.) Command Paymasters will be responsible as filing officers for all claims from their Headquarters, and shall also be responsible that they satisfy themselves that files are properly kept by the various filing officers.

(6.) Filing officers at General Headquarters may be appointed with the approval of the D.F.S.

Uniform Allowance.

50A. In the event of a warrant officer, non-commissioned officer, or man of the Permanent Forces being discharged before completion of his probation he will be required to return the whole of his kit issued under the above scale, deficiencies being charged at part-worn values.

SECTION IV.—PAY AND ALLOWANCES OF THE N.Z. TERRITORIAL FORCE AND RESERVE—ALL RANKS.

109A. A Civil servant attending the annual training in camp, or performing any other military duty for which pay as hereinbefore provided is authorized, may receive his Departmental or Territorial military pay, whichever is the greater, but shall not receive both.

113A. (a.) The Command Paymaster is responsible on all necessary occasions for the presence of a member of the Army Pay Corps at an annual training-camp for the purpose of supervising the issue of pay, checking of acquittance rolls and claims submitted for payment.

(b.) Acquittance rolls and all claims for out-of-pocket expenses incurred by trainees must be prepared in duplicate and submitted to Camp Commandant, who shall advise the Command Paymaster that such rolls, &c., are ready at least three days before the time set apart for payment.

(c.) The Command Paymaster or any member of the Army Pay Corps must not, in accordance with Treasury Regulations, compile the pay rolls or claims submitted by trainees.

(d.) Cash in suitable denominations will be issued to Company, Battery, Squadron, or Unit Commanders by the Command Paymaster or his representative, who must obtain a receipt for such issues, and retain the duplicates of all acquittance rolls and claims covered by such issues of cash.

(e.) Company, Battery, Squadron, or Unit Commanders are responsible for the correct issues of cash to all trainees, and must see that the acquittance rolls, claims, &c., are duly receipted in ink or ink-pencil, and that all surplus cash, together with acquittance rolls, claims, &c., duly certified where necessary, are returned to Camp Headquarters within twenty-four hours of any issue of cash.

(f.) In all cases where for any reason arrangements cannot satisfactorily be made for the cash to be issued by the Paymaster or his representative to Company Commanders, &c., the Camp Commandant shall accept same from the Paymaster, giving the necessary receipt as provided above, and shall be responsible in the same manner as if the cash had been issued to Unit Commanders.

SECTION XIV.—MILITARY FUNERALS.

211A. A funeral at the expense of the State will be provided for a soldier of the Permanent or Territorial Forces who dies as the result of disability arising out of and in the course of his official duties, provided application is made to the nearest Defence Office, and all the arrangements are made by officers of the Defence Department. No liability shall be incurred by the Defence Department by reason of any instructions given by the relatives or friends of the deceased.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 7th day of August, 1924.

R. HEATON RHODES, Minister of Defence.

Appointment of Vice-Consul of the United States of America, at Auckland, recognized.

Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, 9th August, 1924.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General directs it to be notified that, in accordance with instructions from His Majesty’s Secretary of State for the Colonies, he has recognized the appointment of

Mr. Marshall I. Mays,

as Vice-Consul of the United States of America at Auckland.

RICH'D. F. BOLLARD,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

Member of Westland Land Board reappointed.

Department of Lands and Survey,
Wellington, 13th August, 1924.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to reappoint

William Clayton

to be a member of the Westland Land Board, as from the 25th August, 1924.

A. D. McLEOD, Minister of Lands.

Police-gaoler appointed.

Prisons Department,
Wellington, 4th August, 1924.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Constable Arthur Henry Williams

to be Police-gaoler at Akaroa, vice Constable McLennan, transferred.

C. J. PARR, Minister of Justice.

Chairman of Licensing Committees appointed.

Department of Justice,
Wellington, 13th August, 1924.

HIS Excellency the Governor-General has been pleased to appoint

Henry James Dixon, Esq., S.M.,

to be Chairman of the Licensing Committee for the District of Wakatipu; and

Henry Wilfred Bundle, Esq., S.M.,

to be Chairman of the Licensing Committees for the Districts of Wallace and Awarua, vice G. Cruickshank, Esq., S.M., on leave.

C. J. PARR, Minister of Justice.