Dec. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3145

In the last year of an officer’s service on the New Zealand Station two day’s leave may be granted for each complete month on the station, reckoned from the anniversary of the date on which the officer left the United Kingdom, and terminating on the date on which he leaves New Zealand to revert to the Royal Navy. When an officer makes his own passage arrangements the latter date will be that on which he would ordinarily have left New Zealand.

2. Unless by special sanction of the Naval Board no officer on loan is to be granted more than forty-two days’ leave in New Zealand during any leave-year.

3. Officers permanently transferred or who have regularly joined the New Zealand Division.—Officers serving in seagoing ships shall be entitled to forty-two days’ per annum; officers serving in harbour ships and shore establishments, thirty-five days per annum. These officers are not permitted to accumulate leave, and subject to the exigencies of the service, they should be granted facilities for taking the established allowance during the year in which it is due.

4. On promotion to warrant or higher rank an officer should be allowed to take any leave due as a rating before actually taking up his first appointment, or, if this is not practicable, as soon after as is convenient.

5. Officers permanently transferred, or who have regularly joined the New Zealand Division, may on final retirement on account of age or discharge by invaliding be granted any leave not exceeding two weeks per year earned but not taken during the last five years of New Zealand service, up to a maximum of ten weeks.

6. Foreign-service Leave.—Officers permanently transferred to or who have regularly joined the New Zealand Division and who are sent to England for training courses or service with the Royal Navy will, in lieu of the leave shown in paragraph 1, be granted foreign-service leave, reckoned as follows, for the period of absence from New Zealand:—

(a) Fifteen days for each completed period of six months.

(b) Two days for each completed month for periods of less than six months.

Foreign service for the above purpose shall be taken to commence on the date of leaving New Zealand and to end on the date of arrival at the first New Zealand port. Prior to leaving New Zealand such officers will be allowed to take any balance of the proportionate amount of leave due for the completed portion of the current leave-year, and, similarly, on return to New Zealand will be allowed to take, in addition to foreign-service leave, the proportionate amount of leave due for the unexpired portion of the current leave-year.

5. Leave-year.—The leave-year of officers in the above category will commence from—

(i) The date of appointment as an officer in the New Zealand Division where the appointment has lasted for less than a year:

(ii) The anniversary of the date of appointment as an officer in the New Zealand Division in other cases.

Where in the course of a leave-year as defined above, an officer in the above category is appointed in New Zealand from a seagoing to a harbour ship, or vice versa, the leave during that year is to be computed proportionately to the period of service in each appointment.

6. Broken Periods.—For the purpose of computing leave for broken periods the following scale is to be adopted:—

Leave at forty-two days per annum—

(a) Twenty-one days for completed periods of six months.

(b) Three days for each completed month for periods of less than six months.

Leave at thirty-five days per annum—

(a) Seventeen days for completed periods of six months.

(b) Three days for each completed month for periods of less than six months.

82. Leave : General.—When one of His Majesty’s ships of the New Zealand Division visits England, officers who will return in the vessel to New Zealand, and who have already formed part of her complement before her visit to England, may receive leave up to a maximum of ten days during the refit. This leave is not to be deducted from the amount of leave due in the leave-year, but the period of the vessel’s stay in England shall not count towards foreign-service leave for loan officers.

83. All leave other than week-end leave or periods not exceeding forty-eight hours shall count as long-leave, with the exception of sick-leave. The grant of sick-leave is to be governed by the King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions, and is not to be reckoned or included in the amount of recreational leave prescribed.

(Note.—Leave allowance is not payable to officers during periods of sick-leave.)