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APPENDIX C.

FINAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR POSTING. Posting Committees. 1. (a.) The posting in each area-group will be carried out by a Posting Committee, composed as follows :— President — The Officer i/c the Area-group. Members — The Adjutants of the Mounted Rifle regiments concerned. The Adjutant of the Field Artillery brigade or an officer of the R.N.Z.A. detailed to act • 11-,-,I 1 -,- , for him (in groups) from which men for Field or Mounted Artillery units or Engineer units are drawn). The Staff Officer to the Coast Defence Commander (in groups from which men for Garrison Artillery units are drawn). The Staff Officer for Senior Cadets. A permanent officer to be detailed by Officer Commanding District to carry out the posting to the Medical units in the district (in groups from which men for the Medical units are drawn). The following will also attend : — The Area Sergeant-majors of the group. The Sergeant Instructors of units concerned. (».) The President and members, while acting as executive Posting Officers, will be responsible for representing the views of their respective Commanding Officers. The Posting Officer for Medical units will represent the views of the Principal Medical Officer of the district. (c.) As some of the above-mentioned officers and warrant officers are concerned in the posting in more than one area-group, the dates of sitting of the Posting Committees must be arranged so as to ensure the attendance in each case of all concerned. The Posting Committee will sit in the office of the Officer i/c the Area-group, and will assemble, under district arrangements, as soon as the medical examination is sufficiently advanced to admit of the posting being undertaken. A programme showing the proposed dates of sittings of the different Posting Committees in each district must be forwarded to Headquarters as soon as arranged. 2. Preliminary instructions for posting (Circular Memo. No. 54/11, of 30th June, 1911) have already been issued. The principles laid down in that memorandum should not only have been carefully studied by all concerned, but also tentatively applied to each area-group before the Committees sit. The area-maps described in Headquarters letter No. 11 M.O. 2755/3684, of 31st July, 1911, and the Registration Roll-books, will also be available. These, together with this memorandum and such special instructions as O.C. Districts may issue, will furnish all the data that the Posting Committees will require. The attention of all those concerned in the posting is called to paragraphs 168 and IC9 of the Regulations (Provisional) for the Military Forces of New Zealand, and to the article on the " Conditions of Service and Training in the New Zealand Territorial Force," of 27th April, 1911, contributed by the General Staff. Special attention is to be paid to the posting of employees belonging to the same firm, so as to provide that all are not required for training at the same time. Numbering of Senior Cadet Companies. 3. The Senior Cadet companies in each military district will be numbered from 1 upwards, the numbers being allotted by O.C. Districts with due regard to the seniority of existing companies. It is intended that all Senior Cadet companies should also be known by Territorial designations, but the numbers alone will be used for the purpose of posting. Maps to be submitted by Committees. 4. (a.) The results of the posting as carried out by each Posting Committee will be submitted to District Headquarters in the form of a series of maps for each area-group, with short explanatory notes attached \vhere necessary. The maps recommended for use in the country area-groups are the maps issued by the Lands and Survey Department, and obtainable on application by O.C. Districts from the District Headquarters of that Department at Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin. In the purely city area-groups at the four centres the most convenient large-scale map of each city will be used. (b.) The maps (or tracings from maps if found more convenient) which must be submitted for each area-group are as follows (the member of the Committee who is responsible for each map is stated in each case) : — (i.) Map showing the postings to the Infantry battalion and Infantry Brigade Signal company (if any) furnished from the group. (Officer i/c Area-group.) (ii.) Map showing the postings to the Mounted Rifle regiments and Mounted Signal company (if any) in the group. (Adjutants, Mounted Rifles.) (iii.) Map showing the postings to batteries of Field and Artillery and Ammunition Column, and Field Company Engineers (if any) in the group. (Adjutant, Field Artillery Brigade, or the officer detailed to act for him.)

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