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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 82

funds: For 1 to 100 men, at the rate of 10s. each per annum; after the first 100 and up to 300, at the rate of 3s. each per annum; after the first 300, at the rate of 2s. each per annum.

2. In cases of occasional ministrations—e.g., at ports which are not regularly visited by a ship or a squadron—the allowances are to be calculated according to the numbers actually attending the services; but at ports where ships are more or less permanently stationed, and the duties include visitation of the crews and the sick in hospital in addition to the conduct of Divine service, payment is to be based on the average number, taken quarterly, of officers and men of the particular denomination present at the port or headquarters on each Sunday morning during the period the ministrations are given. The numbers will be communicated by the Senior Officer to the minister on his requisition.

3. When it is necessary for the minister to hold a special service exclusively for the benefit of H.M. ships an allowance of 10s. for each such service may be paid in addition to the capitation allowance.

4. No allowance will be paid for any ministrations in respect of which application for payment is not made within a year of the service being rendered.

5. Religious services conducted by accredited representatives of the Salvation Army which are attended by men of the Fleet are to be recognized and paid for under the same conditions as those applicable to other denominations.

6. These allowances are applicable to clergymen of the Church of England officiating at ports where no Naval Chaplains are appointed.

7. The allowances are to be paid by the Accountant Officer with the approval of the Captain or of the Senior Officer, as the case may be. The amounts paid as capitation allowance are to accord strictly with the rates specified in para. 1, whether in respect of casual ministrations for short periods or on account of continuous attendance for a whole year. In cases of doubt reference is to be made to the Commodore, and, if necessary, to the Naval Board.

8. Training Service Fund.—A fixed sum shall be allotted annually by the Naval Board on the recommendation of the Superintendent of Training to meet such miscellaneous expenses connected with the training of new entries as are detailed in these and the Training Service Regulations.

9. The administration of this fund shall be under the Superintendent of Training, and the account, and the money belonging to it, in charge of the Accountant Officer of the Training Ship or Establishment. The latter officer is to render the reports and accounts connected therewith, as required by the Training Service Regulations, to the Superintendent of Training, who will be responsible for the quarterly audit thereof.

CHAPTER X.—VICTUALLING, CLOTHING, ETC.

220. System of Messing: Men.—Ships’ companies shall be victualled either on the standard-ration or general-mess system, as may be decided, taking into consideration the wishes of the men, the services on which the ship is employed, and the facilities existing for the adoption of the latter system.

221. The general-mess system shall be adopted for the victualling of boys under training.

222. System of Messing: Officers.—Officers’ messes are to be formed and conducted in the manner laid down in the King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions.

223. Advance to Officers’ Messes.—Upon the first formation of a ward-room and gunroom mess of a seagoing ship the Accountant Officer, with the Captain’s approval, will make an advance from the public money in his charge to every such mess, not exceeding £3 10s. for each member. In the case of supernumeraries the advance is not to exceed the proportion due for the time they will probably remain in the ship.

224. These advances are to be considered as loans to assist the messes in laying in their first supplies, and the Accountant Officer, under the Captain’s directions, is to recover them within six months by equal monthly instalments from the respective messes, but not from the individual officers.

225. Officers obliged to join other Messes—Difference of Mess Subscription.—Gunroom officers in vessels with no gunroom mess are required to mess in the ward-room and to pay their proper share of mess-