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The appointment of Non-Commissioned Officers to units will be similarly made, subject to the approval of the Commandant and to the required examination being passed.
Promotion will, except under extraordinary circumstances, be by seniority in each unit, subject to passing the regulated tests.
9. All appointments and promotions of Commissioned Officers shall appear in the Gazetto. Government Gazette and shull take effect from date of Notification.
meute.
10. Uniform will be provided by the Corps for all Volunteers in accordance with the Uniform and scale laid down in Schedule A. Officers will provide their own uniform and appointments. pixi-
The uniform for the Field Battery will be the same as that hitherto worn by the Volunteer Artillery.
That for the Machine Gun Companies will be selected by the members subject to the approval of the Governor.
Detailed description of the uniforms when finally settled will be given in the Schedule.
11. Uniform shall be worn at all parades when so notified in Corps, Battery or Com- when to be pany Orders. Under no circumstances may articles of uniform be worn with plain clothes. wom.
12. Practice ammunition, in the proportions laid down in Schedule B, will be provided Ammunition annually out of the Funds of the Corps.
13. The drill season will extend from 1st March to 16th April or a similar period at Drill seasone such other time of the year as may be found more suitable. During the drill senson parades will take place twice a day. Fortnightly drills will take place during the rest of the year.
Classes will be held at convenient times throughout the year for the instruction of members desirous of obtaining certificates of qualification for promotion.
14. The Annual Inspection will take place at the end of the drill season.
It will be tapection. made by the Major-General or by the Field Officer appointed by him for the general supervision of the Volunteers.
15. As prescribed by The Army Act it will be the duty of the Commanding Officer Subjection # when he knows that any Non-Commissioned Officers or men belonging to the Volunteer military law, Force when not in actual military service are about to enter upon any service which will render them subject to military law, to provide for their being informed that they will become so subject and for their having an opportunity of abstaining from entering on that
service.
16. The Government will provide and maintain suitable premises, and will supply Funds, arms and accontrements for the use of the Corps.
A capitation grant will be paid annually to the Commanding Officer of $30 for each member borne on the Master Roll on the 1st of January or recruited between that date and the 1st of October; and a further grout of $26 will be paid for each member who is certified by the Inspecting Officer at the Annual Inspection to be efficient as defined in Schedule C.
In the event of a member for whom the $30 has been paid leaving the Corps, under circumstances not deemed by the Governor to be satisfactory, before the expiration of six months the Corps will be liable to refund a proportionate part of such payment.
N.B-For the current year--the first year of the new corps-the full grant of $56
will be allowed without requiring the certificates of efficiency.
17. From the Fund thus formed the Commanding Officer will defray the following objects of items:
Supply of uniform and great coats to Volunteers as detailed in Schedule A.
The practice ammunition for the Annual Course as detailed in Schedule B.
Payment of Sergeant Instructors.
Hire of ponies for parade purposes.
Unstody, care, and repair of arms and equipment.
Custody of stores.
Upkeep of Rifle Ranges and all other expenses connected with the maintenance of
the Corps in a state of efficiency.
Fund.
18. Members who may cause loss to the Funds of the Corps by failing to obtain in Liability of any year a certificate of efficiency, or by any other avoidable cause, will be liable to make Members. good the sume.
19. Auy member after obtaining five yearly certificates of efficiency may, should be serve desire it, poss into the Reserve, provided that the minimum strength of his unit is maintained Members. and that the proportionate strength of the Reserve, as fixed by the Governor from time to time, is not exceeded,
Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers wishing to retain their rank in the Reserve must, however, have served for three years in that rank.