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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 74

Travelling-allowances.

12. Regulation 145 of the principal regulations is revoked and the following substituted with effect from and including 1st August, 1938 :—

145 (a) Members of the Territorial Force when travelling on military duty other than in proceeding to or returning from parades, camps, or courses of instruction, will receive travelling-allowance at the minimum rate laid down for equivalent rank in the N.Z. Regular Forces and under the same conditions.

(b) When travelling to and returning from camps and courses of instruction members of the Territorial Force will receive travelling-warrants for their transport and will also receive a refund of out-of-pocket expenses for meals or other essential incidental expenses but not exceeding the daily travelling-allowance prescribed in (a). In special cases which may be justified by any of the circumstances mentioned hereunder the use of a private motor-vehicle may be authorized in lieu of the issue of transport-warrants, at either mileage rates or in return for an issue of petrol for the journey, provided that the cost does not exceed the cost by ordinary means of transport for the number carried including the owner-driver :—

(i) When private business obligations will not permit the expenditure of time involved by ordinary means of transport.

(ii) When Government transport is not available.

(iii) When it is in the interests of the Department that the motor-vehicle should be taken to the training or manoeuvre area for use on military duties.

(iv) When other military duties are required to be performed en route to the camp or training area and for which ordinary means of transport are not suitable.

This instruction will not apply when troops are carried in vehicles hired under the provisions of paragraph 144A of these regulations, except in so far as meals or accommodation en route are concerned.

(c) Members of the Territorial Force who live beyond half a mile of the place of ordinary parades will be allowed the cost incurred in train, bus, or train fares (at concession rates where applicable) for attendance at parades which are recorded in the company or platoon roll-book. The distances for which amounts are payable under this heading are limited to twenty miles for mounted troops and twelve miles for other units ; and the maximum number of parades for which payment may be claimed in any one training year is thirty-two.

Where a member provides his own means of conveyance the amount payable under this instruction will be the lower of the following :—

(i) The amount of fares which would have been payable if he had used the normal means of transport, or

(ii) Mileage allowance at the rate of 1½d. per mile.

(d) The amounts payable under subparagraph (c) of this regulation will be recorded in the company roll-book and added to the pay issued for out-of-camp training.

13. Regulation 155 (3) of the principal regulations as substituted by Amendment No. 43 in Gazette No. 34 dated 27th May, 1937, is revoked, and the following substituted :—

14. (3) On first appointment (including appointment on probation), officers of the Territorial Force will receive an outfit grant of £17 and will, in addition, receive a free issue of certain articles as set out in subparagraph (2).

(NOTE.—£10 is payable on first appointment, and a further £7 will be payable to all officers (including those at present serving) if and when their units are issued with blue uniforms.)

14. Regulation 155 (4) of the principal regulations as substituted by Amendment No. 43 in Gazette No. 34 dated 27th May, 1937, is amended by deleting “£2” and substituting “£2 10s.” in line one with effect from 1st June, 1938, and adding at the end thereof :—

Provided that the allowance of £2 10s. may be increased to £3 for officers in units authorized to wear the blue uniform.

15. Regulation 155 (5) of the principal regulations as substituted by Amendment No. 43 in Gazette No. 34 dated 27th May, 1937, is amended by deleting the word “April” and substituting the word “June” and by deleting the word “March” and substituting the word “May”; also by adding the following new sentence :—

The proportion of the allowance for the period 1st April to 31st May, 1938, at the old rate of £2 per annum will be added to and paid with the annual allowance payable on 1st June, 1939.

16. Regulation 155 (6) of the principal regulations as substituted by Amendment No. 43 in Gazette No. 34 dated 27th May, 1937, is amended as follows :—

Subparagraph (b), by deleting “viz., £2 10s.” and substituting “he has received.”

Subparagraph (c), by deleting “viz., £5” and substituting “he has received.”

17. Regulation 155 (8) of the principal regulations as substituted by Amendment No. 43 in Gazette No. 34 dated 27th May, 1937, is amended by adding at the end thereof “or in the case of an officer of a unit authorized to wear blue uniform, £17.”

18. Regulation 165 of the principal regulations as substituted by Amendment No. 44 in Gazette No. 10 dated 10th February, 1938, is revoked, and the following substituted with effect from 1st June, 1938 :—

19. Grants on the undermentioned scale may be made to the regimental funds of units and to a central fund for each training year :—

(a) To Unit Regimental Funds Accounts; 6/- per head for each member of the unit who is certified to have carried out the prescribed training during the year and to be efficient. Payment of this sum may be made by either of the following methods :—

(i) By a progress payment of 2s. per head of the active strength of the unit at any time during the training year for which the grant is payable, and the balance at the end of the training year, or

(ii) By payment in one sum of the full 6s. per head for efficient members at the end of the training year.

(b) To a Central Fund to be controlled and administered by the Army Board ; 2s. per head for each efficient member of all units at the end of the training year.

Claims for these grants will be prepared by Unit Adjutants, those for progress payments being supported by a certificate showing the active strength of the unit at the time the claim is made, and those for final payments and for the payments to the Central Fund being supported by certified rolls showing the names of members on the strength at the end of the year who have carried out the annual training prescribed in Army Orders and who are certified to be efficient. Members of units who have carried out the prescribed training during the year, and who have been posted to the reserve prior to the end of the training year, may be included in the roll for the purposes of this grant.

19. The principal regulations are amended by inserting next after Regulation 165 thereof the following additional regulation :—

165A. The sums paid into the central fund under the authority of paragraph 165 (b) of these regulations may be expended by the Army Board to pay the expenses incidental to the promoting and holding of Army football, boxing, rifle shooting, or other sports and competitions, competitions with other services, improvement of playing grounds, or for such other purposes which are deemed by the Army Board to be in the interests of the Territorial Force.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 21st day of September, 1938.

F. JONES, Minister of Defence.

Revolving a Warrant setting apart Crown Land under Section 20 of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1912.

GALWAY, Governor-General.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon me by section five of the Land Act, 1924, I, George Vere Arundell, Viscount Galway, Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, do hereby revoke the Warrant dated the tenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and published in Gazette No. 103 of the fifteenth day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, page 2933, as amended by the Warrant dated the sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, and published in Gazette No. 8 of the ninth day of February, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, setting apart the land described in the Schedule hereto for disposal under section twenty of the Land Laws Amendment Act, 1912.

SCHEDULE.

NORTH AUCKLAND LAND DISTRICT.

SECTION 11, Block V, Hohuru East Survey District : Area, 23 acres 1 rood 14 perches.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, this 21st day of September, 1938.

FRANK LANGSTONE, Minister of Lands.

(L. and S. 9/1142.)