TERRITORIAL NOTES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12857, 18 December 1912, Page 2

TERRITORIAL NOTES.

(By "Old Campaigner.") According to Regimental Orders, Captain William Henry Cunningham has been promoted to the rank of Major. Lieutenant George Fortescue Puston is transferred to the 11th Regiment (Taranaki Rifles). j The next examination of officers for , promotion is to be held on February ! 18th, 1913, and following days. The following ruling by the QuurterM&ster General is publisher for the information of all concerned1: —"Charges against units for damages or'deficiencies of arms will be rendered as usual. ' The payment of same ds solely a matter for Officers Commanding units to arrange, either from regimental funds, or by recovery from individuals responsible for damage to or neglect of arms. If within a reasonable, time payment has not been made, the matter should ibe reported for further action neces- | sary, it being purely one of discipline." ( It is notified for the information of all concerned that the Outfit Grant will not be paid to officers" appointed on probation subsequent to October Ist. A contract for the supply of uniforms will shortly bo arranged, when free issues of outfits will be miade. While on probation only such articles of outfit will be issued as are necessary to enable probationary officers to Carry out their duties, the remainder of the outfit being issued when the prescribed examination has l)een passed and commissions granted. Several amendments to _the Defence Act of 1909 are announced. The following paragraphs tell all about attachment orders, and liow the amount of si fine may be taken out of a defaulter's wages:— , " When any person is convicted after' the commencement of this Act of any offence against the principal Act or any amendment thereof ,or lagainst any regulation made thereunder (-whether such 'offence is committed 'before or after the commencement of thig* Act). . and is sentenced to pay a fine, the convicting magistrate or justices or any j other magistrate"- may at the same or any subsequent time, .and from-time to time, on the application of any person. I make :an attachment order in pursuance of this 'seotrioji. j " Any such attachment order may be made iagainst any person who is proved , to the satisfaction of the magistrate or | justices making the same to ibe an em- ! ployer of the offender so convicted. | " When the person convicted enters I the service of any employer a further I attachment order may be miade against such other employer.' " Any such attachment order may be made ex par^e Avithout notice to the said offender or his employer, but a duplicate thereof shall be served upon the employer either personally or by leaving the same at Ms place of aibode, or at his place of business, or iat any of his places of business.' Where the employer is ia body corporate, service of the duplicate order may bo effected by leaving, the same at any office or place ' of business of the body corporate. "Any such attachment order may declare that the said fine shall, by way of weekly payments of such amount as the magistrate or justices think fit and specify in the attachment order, be a charge on any salary or wages which from time to time, and at any time while the attaohanent order remlains in .force become due and payable by the employer to the offender." " Wetlon't want to go to war," said General Godley in Bunedin recently^ . " but we ja.re training so as to be aibleand reaSy^if necessary to do so, and we ' are gettiiiig the men together in large bodies and. training them as if they cr c going into" actdve s&rvice. I am quite sure you will all realise thlat Newj Zealand must do its share in tihe'de^ fence, of the Empire; and we cannot keep up this great Empire unless we make some, effort. All great empires of the past dwindled away as soon as their martial spirit disappeared. We don't want to fight, but we must not trail . our coat fo ranyone to tread on it and get us to go and fight them; but we do want to make this charming ooun- ( try of New ZeaJand safe, to make it j quite certain that the Empire can depend upon New Zealand to do its snare, and that New Zealand is able to look after itself."