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(5.) Officers of the Reserves shall not receive pay when proceeding to sea in H.M. ships for the purpose of witnessing gunnery, torpedo, and other practices, although they may be employed during and in connection with such practices; nor shall officers R.N.V.R. (N.Z.D.) receive pay whilst attending drills on board H.M. ships or drills or lectures afloat or ashore, although such drills and lectures may count as part of their obligatory training. Officers may, however, at such times be victualled on board when embarked before noon, provided the period afloat will be not less than five hours. Officers, whatever their rank, shall be liable for the payment of mess charges for meals taken on these occasions, and for any other expenses incurred by them beyond the amount of victualling-allowance received by the mess.

26. Lodging and Provision Allowances.—Lodging and provision allowances shall be paid under the same conditions and rates as are provided for corresponding ranks in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy. Such allowances shall not be paid to officers R.N.V.R. (N.Z.D.) attending lectures, nor to those who may elect to perform some portion of their obligatory training by attending on board H.M. ships for periodical drills.

27. Difference of Mess Subscription.—Difference of mess subscription shall be payable to gun-room officers required to join a ward-room mess and to Warrant Officers who are obliged to join a mess which includes all officers under the same conditions and at the same rates as in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy. This allowance is not payable in the circumstances referred to in article 42 of these regulations.

28. Travelling-allowances and Subsistence.—Officers shall be allowed travelling-expenses actually incurred and subsistence allowance at the actual naval rates in joining H.M. ships and establishments for training and service, and in returning to the place from which they arrived, or for any other journey the cost of which does not exceed the expenses which would have been incurred by the actual return journey. Warrants for journeys by sea, rail, or coach shall invariably be applied for.

29. Uniform Allowance.—(1.) An officer who, except on account of ill health not due to his own misconduct or imprudence, death, or in such special circumstances as the Naval Board may approve, fails to serve for four years will be required to refund the amount of uniform allowance paid to him to the extent of one-quarter of the allowance in respect of each year or portion of a year by which his service falls short of four years.

(2.) Officers employed in lieu of officers, Royal Navy, shall be granted equipment fees according to the following scale for each year of service:—

If employed in the same rank as that in which they underwent twelve months’ training .. .. .. .. £ 5

If in a rank one grade higher than that in which they underwent twelve months’ training .. .. .. .. 10

(3.) Payment of uniform allowance shall be authorized by the Naval Board on application to the Naval Secretary, and may be paid in advance. The application shall be made by the officer entitled to such an allowance, or by the Commanding Officer of the Division or the ship which he may have joined.

30. Pensions for Wounds, Injuries, &c.—Widows and children (if any) of officers who, whilst on active service, may be killed in action, or die from accident or disease resulting from the performance of their duty, shall receive the pensions and compassionate allowances to which the widows and children of officers of the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy of corresponding rank would be entitled in similar circumstances.

31. Messing and Accommodation.—(1.) Officers shall be messed and accommodated on board the ships or in the establishments in which they perform training, provided accommodation is available.

(2.) Gun-room officers on reaching twenty-three years of age shall mess in the ward-room.

VII. UNIFORM, DECORATIONS, AND MEDALS.

32. Occasions on which Uniform may be worn.—(1.) Officers shall not wear their Reserves uniform when on ordinary service in the mercantile marine, &c., but only when borne on ship’s books for service or training in H.M. ships or establishments, when performing drills, and on State and other occasions of ceremony within the British Empire; if worn, the uniform shall be that which is appropriate to the occasion.

(2.) In New Zealand the appropriate dress for the Reserves when in uniform on occasions of ceremony shall be—

Day. Evening.

R.N.R. (N.Z.D.) (See art. 155) Undress or frock coat and sword Mess undress.

R.N.V.R. (N.Z.D.) (See art. 217) Undress .. .. Mess undress.