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7. Reserve ammunition in the following proportion will be supplied by the C.0.0. to Section Commanders for the guns allotted to their Sections, viz. :

For Maxim guns, 5,500 rounds per gun; 15-pr. Field guns, 100 rounds per gun ; and 2-95-in. guns, 200 rounds per gun.

8. Arrangements as to the hours stores will be issued will be made personally by the various Section Commanders with the C.0.0.

9. When Maxim guns from the Victoria or Kowloon Reserves are sent to reinforce Defence Sections, the O.C. the Reserve concerned will be held responsible for supplying the Maxim guns with their full complement of ammunition, viz., 11,000 rounds per gun.

10. Engineer and Hospital Stores, &c.-The C.O.O. will also have to issue at once the tools, &c., required by the C.R.E., the equipment for the two base hospitals to be formed, the stores required by the RA. for moving the guns into position, the equipment for the visual signalling stations, the blouses for the R.A. coolies, and the badges for the A.S.C. coolie transport corps that will be formed.

Requisitions and vouchers for these stores are held in readiness by the C.O.O.

11. Miscellaneous. Further action by the C.O.O., whose time will be much taken up by arranging for the supply of naval ammunition and stores, will be as follows :—

(a.) Purchasing locally such hospital equipment and stores as may be required for the base hospital.

(b.) Providing additional accommodation for laboratory work. This will best be provided by tents and boarded floors.

Arrangements have been made for an officer of the A.O.C. to visit all posts over storehouses and magazines. A subordinate will be kept in attendance at each magazine and storehouse by day and night so long as considered necessary to meet sudden requirements.

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