NAVAL AND MILITARY NOTES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23945, 21 October 1939, Page 7

NAVAL AND MILITARY NOTES

FROM MESS DECK, PARADE GROUND, AND RIFLE RANGE

By, Bull’s-eye

THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE (Extraordinary) No. 71. Dated September 1, 1939

The Naval Mobilisation Emergency Regulations, 1939, continued from notes dated October 5. Regulation 2.—Naval Reserve Officers. 2. (1) All persons who are retired officers of the New Zealand Naval Forces, including the Royal Naval Reserve (New Zealand Division) and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (New Zealand Division) shall be liable to be called into active employment in case of war or of emergency. 2. (2) It shall be the duty of every retired officer of the New Zealand Naval Forces to hold himself at the disposal of the Naval Board and to obey a personal summons sent to him under these regulations. , _ 2. (33) The reference in Regulation 4 (6) hereof to being of the age of 60 years' or upwards shall have no application to a retired officer of the New Zealand Naval Forces. Nevertheless, the Naval Board will, so far as the public interest admits, make the first selection of retired officers for employment from those who are under the age of 60 years at the time of coming into force of these regulations. Regulations 3.—Duty to Report. 3, (1) All men of the Naval Reserves as herein defined, except members of class D of the Royal Naval Reserve (New Zealand Division) shall, within seven days of the coming into force of these regula-. tions, report in writing their full names and complete postal addresses to the Director of Naval Reserves at the Navy Office, Wellington. 3 (2) Except as provided by the last preceding regulation, no obligation to report is imposed by these regulations on any member of the Naval Reserve as herein defined until a personal summons has been sent to him as is provided, and no such member shall proceed to any naval ship, establishment or place unless and until so directed by a personal summons sent under these regulations.

Regulation 4. —Personal Summons. 4 (I).—The Director of Naval Reserves or any officer whom the Naval Board may appoint to act in his stead and who purports to act on behalf of the Naval Board may issue to any member of the Naval Reserves as herein defined a notice in writing instructing him to proceed to any ship, establishment, or place tor service in the Naval Forces 4 (2). —So far as concerns members of the Naval Reserves of the Royal Navy from time to time for the time being resident or present in New Zealand, any personal summons shall be deemed to have been given by the Naval Board on behalf and by direction of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in Great Britain and in conformity with instructions of the said Lords Commissioners communicated to the Naval Board. 4 (3).—A personal summons shall be sufficient if sent by ordinary post letter addressed to the member of the Naval Reserves at his usual and last known place of abode or business, and shall be deemed to be given at the time when it would be delivered at its address in the ordinary course of post.

4 (4). —Every personal summons shall direct the person named therein to proceed to the ship, establishment, or place therein appointed so as to reach it by the time or on the date mentioned In the summons (according to the terms thereof), and there to report to the officer indicated in the summons. 4 (5).—A time for reporting to be mentioned in a personal summons shall be not less than 48 hours after the time of receipt of the summons, and a date for reporting to be mentioned in a summons shall be not earlier than the second day after the day of service of the summons.

4 (6). —Every person who fails to report within the time or on the date mentioned in the personal summons at the appointed ship, establishment or place to the officer indicated in the summons shall be guilty of an offence against the regulations: provided that this regulation is without prejudice to his liability to be proceeded against under any other provision of law.

(To Be Continued.)

No. 125. Dated October 12. 1939 Staff.—Captain J. R. Page, Regiment of Royal New Zealand Artillery, relinquishes the appointment of adjutant, 3rd Artillery Brigade Group and 23rd Heavy Battery, N.Z.A., and 0.C.. Field Cadre, R.N.Z.A , Christchurch, on appointment to the Special Force; dated September 20, 1939 Lieutenant N. E. W. Barclay, Ist Cadet Battalion, the Waikato Regiment, relinquishes his commission on appointment to the New Zetland Chaplains’ Department: dated September 25, 1939. New Zealand Medical Corps.—Captain J. C. McKenzie, M. 8., from the Reserve of Officers, to be captain, with seniority from May 6, 1937, and is posted to Southern Military District (unattached): dated July 18, 1939. New Zealand Chaplains' Department.— The Rev. Nigel Ernest William Barclay to be Chaplain, 4th Class (Church of England). Area 4: dated September 26. 1939 ‘New Zealand Staff Corps —Lieutenant A. R. McKlnlay (the Otago Mounted Rifles) has been granted a short-service commission in the rank stated: dated September 1, 1939.