Volunteer Regulations.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.") Wellington, April 23. It is the intention of the Defence Minister to amend the Volunteer regulations. There will be four branches of the service, the first being Garrison Volunteers m towns with a capitation of £3 per man; the second, Country Volunteers, with £1 10s per man ; the third, Honorary Corps; and the fourth, Honorary Reserve Corps. The Honorary Corps will be under the same regulations as the Garrison Corps, but will be without capitation. The Honorary' Reserve Corps will be allowed to frame their own regulations, but they will have to be approved of by the Defence Minister. In each case, however, the Government will supply the necessary arms. The new regulations are framed so as to allow each company to increase its strength to 100, but capitation will only be paid for the present maximum, 63 for each of the town companies, and 50 each of the country companies. As the number of parades which country corps have to attend to qualify for capitation have been found to press very ■hard on some Volunteers, the number of parades have been fixed at six, twothirds of which have to be attended hefore qualifying for capitation.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 119, 24 April 1885, Page 2
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