SALUTING BY W.A.A.C.

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXI, Issue 8839, 2 November 1942, Page 2

SALUTING BY W.A.A.C.

SPECIAL LIMITATION PROVIDED

NEW INSTRUCTIONS ISSUED

Special exceptions to the regulations requiring all other ranks to salute commissioned officers have been made applicable to members of the New Zealand W.A.A.C., according to the latest Army Headquarters instructions. Except in the special circumstances mentioned below, officers and soldiers of the Army are not required to salute commissioned officers of the W.A.A.C., but it is expected they will do so in courtesy.

Members of the W.A.A.C. will salute their own officers when on duty or on parade. Subject to the condition stated below, member® of the W.A.A.C. are not required to salute commissioned officers of the Army and other Ser-

vices except as a. matter of courtesy. When personnel of the Army and of the W.A.A.C. are serving together within a unit, all commissioned officers will salute their /seniors, and all other ranks will salute commissioned officers, whether male or female, when on duty or on parade and on any other formal occasions the officer commanding the unit may prescribe.