1592
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 32

COMPLIMENTS BY GUARDS.

Guards and Sentries.

787. Guards, including guards of honour, mounted over the person of the King and members of the Royal Family will pay no compliments except to members of the Royal Family; and guards, including guards of honour, mounted over the Governor-General will pay no compliments to officers or persons of lesser degree. When any such guards are visited by officers on duty they will turn out to them with sloped arms.

788. Subject to the above restrictions, guards will at all times between “reveille” and “retreat” turn out and present arms to the Governor-General and to General Officers in uniform.

789. Regimental guards will turn out and present arms once a day to their commanding officers of whatever army rank.

790. An officer under the rank of General Officer is not entitled to the compliment of the bugle sounding the “salute,” or the drum beating a ruffle, when guards present arms to him. An officer not in uniform is not entitled to the compliment of a guard turning out, except members of the Royal Family and the Governor-General. Colonels-Commandant will not be entitled to the compliment of the guard turning out except in the case of those guards found by the troops under their command, and mounted under their immediate order or under the order of their unit commanders.

791. When a General Officer in uniform, or a person entitled to a salute, passes in rear of the guard, the commander is to cause his guard to fall in and stand with sloped arms, facing the front, but no drums are to beat, and no bugle will sound. When such officers pass guards while in the act of relieving guard, both guards are to salute as they stand, receiving the word of command from the senior commander.

792. Guards are to turn out at all times when armed parties* of any branch of the service approach their posts; to armed corps† they will present arms, and before other armed parties they will stand with sloped arms. They will not pay compliments between the sounding of “retreat” and “reveille,” and will not turn out to an unarmed party. A mounted party will “carry arms” to all guards turning out to it.

• By the expression “armed party” is meant a party armed with swords, guns, or rifles, and mounted in the case of mounted units.

† By the expression “armed corps” is meant an armed party of a certain strength—viz., a regiment of Mounted Rifles, a battery of Artillery with its guns, or two batteries of Coast Artillery (without guns), Engineers of not less than four companies, a battalion of Infantry with or without colours, Army Service Corps or Army Ordnance Corps if not less than four companies.

793. Honours will be paid by sentries as follows:—

• As prescribed in Infantry Training.

794. All guards and sentries are to pay the same compliments to commissioned officers of the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, and Royal Air Force as are directed to be paid to officers of the Military Forces.

FLAG STATIONS AND FLAGS TO BE FLOWN.

795. Flags will be flown as follows:—

• Birthday of King, Queen, Prince of Wales; Accession and Coronation Days; New Year’s Day; St. Patrick’s, St. George’s, and St. Andrew’s Days; Easter Monday; Anzac Day; Empire Day; Dominion Day; Nelson Day; Labour Day; Boxing Day; Sundays; and whenever otherwise ordered.

† Daily except Sundays.

‡ When regimental district and area headquarters are in the same or adjacent buildings only one flag will be flown.

§ When firing a salute.

796. Flags will be flown at half-mast on the following occasions:—

(a.) On the death of a member of the Royal Family—from the date of death to the date of interment, both inclusive.

(b.) On the death of a foreign Sovereign or the President of a republic—on the day of death or immediately on receipt of the intelligence, and also on the day of the funeral.

(c.) On the death of a General Officer of the N.Z. Forces—during the period of the funeral only.

(d.) On the death of an O.C. Command, by all flag-stations within his command—during the period of the funeral only.

(e.) On all occasions when a military funeral is actually passing the flag-station concerned.

Flags on Vessels and Boats.

797. The Union Jack, being the distinguishing flag of the Admiral of the Fleet only, is not to be flown on military boats and vessels.

798. Defence vessels and boats are authorized to carry the Blue Ensign of the Dominion.

799. A special Union Jack, bearing in its centre as a distinguishing mark the Royal cipher surrounded by a garland on a blue shield, and surmounted by a crown, is authorized to be flown by the General Officer Commanding New Zealand Forces when embarked in boats or vessels on duty.

ARTILLERY SALUTES.

800. The following is a list of stations at which salutes are authorized to be fired:—

Auckland—Saluting-battery, North Head.

Wellington—Saluting-battery, Point Jerningham, western slope.

801. Artillery salutes will be fired as laid down in King’s Regulations.

802. A salute of nineteen guns will be fired at Wellington on the occasion of the opening of Parliament.

803. The artillery salute prescribed by King’s Regulations for a flag officer of the Navy will usually be fired when the officer lands to call on His Excellency the Governor-General.

OFFICIAL VISITS.

804. On the arrival of one or more British or foreign war-vessels at Wellington, Auckland, or Lyttelton, official visits will be exchanged between the senior naval officer in command and the General Officer Commanding (at Wellington), or the O.C. Command at Auckland or Lyttelton.

The senior officer (naval or military) will receive the first call, which should be returned within twenty-four hours.

An officer will be sent on board immediately on arrival of the war-vessel to arrange the exchange of visits.

In the event of the General Officer Commanding, or the O.C. Command, being away from his headquarters, the official visit will be paid (or returned) by the next senior officer present at the headquarters concerned, and the fact will be explained to the naval officer in command.

FUNERALS.

Military Funerals.

805. A military funeral may be accorded to an officer or soldier who was serving on the Active List at the time of his decease, and will be carried out in accordance with King’s Regulations where not otherwise provided for in the following paragraphs.

806. A gun-carriage will be supplied if available, and if authorized by command headquarters. Generally a motor-hearse will be used, and troops attending the funeral will be drawn up at the entrance to the cemetery, from which point, only, military ceremonial procedure will be followed.

807. Firing-parties will, when possible, be furnished from the unit to which the soldier belonged at the time of his death.

808. All instructions in connection with the employment of troops at military funerals will be issued by the officer commanding the unit concerned.

809. Attendance at military funerals shall not count as a parade toward fulfilment of the obligation for training as laid down in paras. 333 and 337.

810. No payments shall be made to troops for attendance at military funerals, and no expense shall be incurred in connection therewith without the special authority of the O.C. Command in which the funeral takes place.

811. In addition to the firing-parties, the funeral of an officer will be attended by the officers, that of a warrant officer by the warrant officers, that of a sergeant by the sergeants, and that of a corporal by the corporals, of the unit to which the deceased belonged or was attached. The funeral of a non-commissioned officer or a private will be attended by the squadron, troop, battery, or company (officers included) to which he belonged or was attached.