Dec. 6.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 3207

APPENDIX VII.

Agreement.—Volunteers for Temporary Loan from the Active List of the Royal Navy to the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy.

1. TERM OF ENGAGEMENT.—Three years, subject to being so long required by the New Zealand Government. This period will include annual leave and time on passage out and Home. No engagement will be entered into which continues service in the New Zealand Naval Forces beyond the age of forty-five years, except with the approval of the New Zealand Naval Board in exceptional circumstances.

2. LEAVE.—Foreign-service leave on the scale and conditions laid down in the King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions, and fourteen days per year, seven days per half-year, one day per month to be granted in New Zealand; latter to commence to accrue from date of leaving England until date of leaving New Zealand on return, and must be taken during year in which earned.

3. TIME.—All time served on loan will count for all purposes as time served in the Royal Navy, except that if first Royal Navy continuous-service engagement expires during such loan, time subsequent to such expiry shall only count in the event of re-engagement in the Royal Navy to complete time for pension.

4. DISCIPLINE.—All ratings lent will be subject to the Acts and Regulations governing the New Zealand Naval Forces, which apply generally to the Naval Discipline Act and King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions for the time being in force to the New Zealand Naval Forces.

5. PAY AND ALLOWANCES during the period of loan will be as laid down in the Regulations for the Government and Payment of the New Zealand Division. Time served on loan to the New Zealand Division will continue to count towards time for pension in the Royal Navy. Ratings lent to the New Zealand Division will draw no pay and allowances from the Admiralty during such service.

6. ADVANCEMENT.—(i) The name of a rating on loan will be retained on the advancement rosters at his Royal Navy Port Division, and if he reaches his turn for advancement on that roster during his loan to the New Zealand Division he will be advanced, provided he is qualified and recommended. His advancement will be duly notified to the New Zealand authorities so that he may receive the higher pay, &c., of his new rating. Ratings promoted to officer rank will not be paid for such rank unless given an appointment by the New Zealand Naval Board. A rating serving on loan will be eligible for advancement in the event of a vacancy in the complement of one of the ships of the New Zealand Division, but if a fully qualified and recommended New Zealand rating is available such rating may receive the preference.

(ii) Where a rating is advanced to a higher rating to fill an actual vacancy in the complement, is fully qualified for advancement under the conditions laid down for the Royal Navy, and the authority to grant the higher rating in the Royal Navy is the Commanding Officer at the time the advancement is made, no reversion will take place on return to the Royal Navy.

(iii) Any local rating conferred on a man lent to the New Zealand Division other than a vacancy in complement will be noted in the “Special Recommendations, &c.,” column in his service certificate, but such person will revert to his former rating on return to the Royal Navy.

7. PASSAGE AND EXPENSES ALLOWED.—(i) Cost of personal passage out and Home will, unless proceeding by man-of-war, be defrayed by the New Zealand Government. Wives and families will not be granted passages, *except that men whose period of engagement in the Royal Navy will expire before completion of their term of service in the New Zealand Naval Forces may be granted free passages to New Zealand for their wives and families in lieu of free return passages to the United Kingdom for themselves. In applying for a passage under this provision the applicant must state to what port in the Dominion he wishes his wife and family to be booked. Passages from one place to another within the Dominion will not be defrayed by the Government even should the base of the husband’s ship be changed.

(ii) Freight on baggage, according to Admiralty scale, is allowed at Government expense.

(iii) Furniture and other personal effects are not conveyed at the expense of the Dominion, but, where passages are provided for wives and families, expenditure towards cost of packing and carriage, not exceeding the sum of £10, will be refunded on production of receipts. ‘Expenses in removing effects from ship to residence in New Zealand, up to a limit of £2, will also be allowed on production of receipts.

• The portion of paragraph 7 “except . . . changed” is in abeyance whilst passages to and from the United Kingdom are generally made by man-of-war.