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Subject, Particulars. Regulation Number or other Authority. A llowances —continued. Target £3 allowance per annum per adult corps for maintenance of targets; £1 for each Cadet Regulation 382. Travelling ... corps Allowance when absent from headquarters on duty : Officers and N.C.O.s of battalion, regiment, or divisional staffs, 10s. per annum; other ranks, 8s.; and free railway pass (Further allowances have been recommended in report of Council of Defence for 1908.) Regulation 394. Ammunition. • Ammunition Efficient Volunteers, and members of Reserve corps and rifle clubs, may purchase ammunition at 5s. per 100 rounds per man per annum. Free issue for rifle practice to Field or Garrison Artillery and Engineers, 100 rounds per man ; Mounted Rifles and Infantry, 130 rounds per man; Defence Rifle Clubs, 120 rounds per man; Reserve corps, 100 rounds per man. Blank ammunition, 50 rounds per rifle for skirmishing and ceremonial purposes Regulation 400. Efficiency Badges Badges and Personal Payments. Volunteers are granted an Efficiency Badge, and £1 personal payment, for passing proficiency test in each of the following subjects. If a Volunteer should earn the Badge and payment for three consecutive years, a Distinguished Badge and a further payment of £1 will be granted Field Artillery. —Gunnery, range-finding, driving, gun-laying, signalling Garrison Artillery. —Gunnery, gun-laying, signalling, range-finding Engineers. — Electric lighting, including (a) engine-driving, (b) electricity Field Engineers. —Field telegraph, signalling Infantry. — Signalling; and, for Maxim-gun detachment, efficiency in the use of Maxim Regulations 405-7, 411. Regulation 413. Regulation 414. Regulation 416. Regulation 416. Regulations 418, 418a. Marksmen... guns Field Ambulance Corps.— Ambulance duties Garrison and Battalion Bands. —Ambulance duties Mounted Rifles. —Signalling, Maxim gun ... Marksmen's Badge given to each Volunteer, who qualifies, as a marksman in firing musketry course necessary for capitation for the year. 10s. personal payment granted to twenty marksmen making highest scores in a Mounted Rifle corps, to sixteen marksmen making highest scores in Infantry corps, and the four men making highest scores in Cycle corps. In addition to the above, the marksman making highest score in each regiment or battalion receives 10s. extra and a gold badge Cadets making 120 and over in class firing for capitation receive Marksmen's Badges, and. the five Cadets making highest scores receive 5s. each Every Volunteer who has qualified for capitation for three successive years receives .a Service Badge. Every Volunteer who has qualified for capitation six successive years receives a second Service Badge. Every Volunteer who has qualified for capitation for nine successive years receives a Distinguished Badge Regulation 419. Regulation 419. Regulation 417. Regulations 417, 418. Regulation 420. Service badges payments and Regulations 423, 424.