✨ Militia Regulations
[Reprinted from New Zealand Gazette, June 21.]
TARANAKI MILITIA REGULATIONS.
BY virtue and in exercise of the authority in me vested by the Militia Act, 1858, and the Militia Act Amendment Act, 1860, I, Thomas Gore Browne, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby make and issue the following orders for the regulation of the Taranaki Regiment of Militia.
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The Taranaki Militia District shall not be divided, but the Taranaki Regiment shall constitute one Battalion.
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Such Battalion shall be divided into three classes.
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The first-class shall consist of all unmarried men and all widowers without children between the ages of sixteen years and forty years, both inclusive, who shall be called the first-class service men. The second class shall consist of all married men and widowers with children between the same ages, who shall be called second class service men; and the third class shall consist of all men between the ages of forty years and fifty-five years, who shall be called the reserve men.
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The men of each class shall be formed by the Senior Officer of the Battalion into one or more Company or Companies, he having regard in such formation to secure, as far as possible, contiguity of residence of the men in each Company.
T. GORE BROWNE.
Government House,
Auckland, 12th June, 1861.
Printed by G. W. Woon for the Provincial Government.
Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1861, No 9
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🛡️ Taranaki Militia Regulations
🛡️ Defence & Military12 June 1861
Militia, Regulations, Taranaki, Battalion, Classes
- Thomas Gore Browne, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand