THE PERMANENT FORCES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3714, 27 December 1912, Page 3

THE PERMANENT FORCES.

COMMISSIONS AS LIEUTENANTS. OPEN TO WARRANT OFFICERS AND STAFF-SERGT.-MAJiOIIS. It has been decided as a special measure to throw open nine commissions as lieutenant in the Permanent Forces of the Dominion to warrant officers and staff sergeant-majors of the Royal New Zealand Artillery and of the New Zealand Permanent Staff. Seven of those commissions will lie in the New Zealand Staff Corps and two in the Royal New Zealand Artillery. THE SYLLABUS. [PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM] WELLINGTON, Dee. 26. Following is the syllabus of exam in-sit-ion of warrant officers of the Rojal New Zealand Artillery and New Zealand Permanent Staff and Staff-Sergts Majors of New Zealand Permanent Staff, on selection for commissions as Lieutenants (written): —Dictation, composition, geography of British Empire, elementary tactics and held fortifications, infantry training (as in B—--10 for staff corps, modified for R.N.Z.A.), military law, administration and organisation, etc., of New Zealand military forces, musketry (for staff corps modified for G.N.Z.), guunerv for N.Z.A. (practical gun and duties in field! for N.Z. Staff Corps and for R.N.Z.A.. in gunnery duties (map reading, elementary tactical exorcise in field) or on coast defences for R.N.Z.A. (musketry for jV/.G.U. modified for R.N.Z.A.), care and preservation of equipment, according to respective aims. , Sergt.-Major Bishop, of Gisborne, is a candidate.