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These provisional regulations set out how H.M.A. Training Ship "Tingira" is to be run: enrolment, kit and clothing rules, pay and pocket money, leave and sickness allowances, discipline, and internal funds and accounts. They allocate specific duties to the Captain, Naval Board, Accountant Officer and Regulating Lieutenant and require regular accounting and records.
Who pays and who decides: the Boys’ Fund and Training Ship vote finance many items (Reg.5); parents may buy a discharge for fixed sums (Reg.3); boys can be charged on the ship ledger for clothing, repairs and fines (Regs.6,10,12); the Captain and Naval Board control key approvals (Reg.1(4)).
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STATUTORY RULES.
1912. No. 221.
PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVAL DEFENCE ACT 1910–11.
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that on account of urgency, the following Regulations under the Naval Defence Act 1910–11, should come into immediate operation, and further, should be taken to have come into operation on the 1st day of June, 1912, and make the Regulations to come into operation accordingly as Provisional Regulations.
Dated this thirteenth day of November, One thousand nine hundred and twelve.
DENMAN,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
G. F. PEARCE.
REGULATIONS FOR H.M.A. TRAINING SHIP “TINGIRA.”
GENERAL.
1. (1) The Captain of the Boys’ Training Ship is directly responsible to the Naval Board for the training of the boys entered for service in the Commonwealth Naval Forces.
(2) The Captain is to take all proper steps to insure these regulations being carried out on a uniform system, and, with this in view, he is authorized to issue such orders in regard to details as he may consider necessary, taking care that they are not in opposition to the Navy Orders
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or to the King’s Regulations and Admiralty Instructions, by which he will be guided in all points not specially provided for in these Regulations.
(3) The establishment of the Training Ship and the number of Boys to be trained will be as approved by the Naval Board, subject to provision on Estimates.
(4) All questions bearing on alterations of ship’s fittings requiring financial expenditure, training of boys, complements, and the disciplinary system, either of men or boys, are to be submitted by the Captain to the Naval Secretary, for the consideration and approval of the Naval Board, before any financial liability is incurred.
2. The duty of regulating the entry of boys is intrusted to the Captain of the Training Ship, and he is to carry this out in accordance with the instructions he may receive from time to time on this subject, submitting to the Naval Board any modification which he may think it right to suggest. He is empowered also to communicate with the Officers of the Recruiting Areas as to any special circumstances, and to regulate the number of entries that are not specially provided for by Naval Board order.
3. Provided the Captain is satisfied as to the reasons given, and the, exigencies of the Service permit, discharge of a boy may be permitted on payment by the parents or guardians of the following amounts:—
Boys Under Three Months’ Service, £15.
Boys Over Three Months’ Service, £25.
In exceptional circumstances, the discharge of a boy without purchase may be allowed, subject to the approval of the Naval Board.
4. (1) All boys received for entry in the Training Ship who may be kept waiting for examination or completion of papers are to be victualled and entered in ledger on date of appearance, but not finally entered until their papers are duly completed; those who are ultimately rejected are to be discharged from the books with a notation to that effect against their names; the pay of those ultimately accepted is to commence from the date of their original entry on ship’s books.
(2) Clothes that are of any value, and if the boy desires it, are to be returned to his parents, carriage prepaid, at Government expense.
5. (1) The Boys’ Fund consists of a fixed sum allotted each year to the Training Ship on the approval of the Naval Board.
(2) The object of the Fund is to meet miscellaneous expenses connected with the boys, and the purposes and allotment of the Fund are as follows. The allotment may, however, be varied at the discretion of the Captain.
| Per cent. | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | (i.) | Mess gear.—Gear not ordinarily supplied from the Victualling Yard. |
| 2 | (ii.) | Extra fittings.—Fittings for messes, school, bath, and model rooms. |
| 8 | (iii.) | Cleaning material.—Blacking, clothes, and shoe, and hand sweeping brushes. |
| 5 | (iv.) | Band.—Music and instruction books, repairing instruments, singing instructors, choir, harmonium, tuning. |
| 12 | (v.) | Badges.—3d. per week for each good conduct badge; 6d. per week for petty officer crown, whether 1st or 2nd class boy, in addition to badge money; 1s. per week, inclusive of crown and badge money, for each instructor boy. |
| 30 | (vi.) | Recreations.—Entertainments during leave to boys with no homes. Schoolroom and outdoor games and sports; entertainments. |
| 21 | (vii.) | Miscellaneous.—Printing expenses, marking ink, boatswain’s calls, half-yearly prizes, washing expenses, or any other incidental expenditure in connexion with the boys. |
| 17 | (viii.) | To meet extraordinary expenses connected with half-yearly prizes, &c. |
| 4 | (ix.) | Repairing Materials.—Thread and small materials for tailors and shoemakers; braid for marking frocks and shoe strings. |
| 100 |
(3) The administration of this fund is to be under the control of the Captain.
(4) Tenders are to be publicly invited, wherever practicable, for the supply of all materials, and where such is not practicable supplies are to be purchased if possible from wholesale firms. Great care is to be taken that the articles are of good quality and of reasonable price. All purchases are to be authorized in writing by the Captain before the articles are ordered.
(5) All articles purchased are to be in the charge of the Accountant Officer; he is to keep an annual account of their receipt and expenditure upon the established form.
(6) All articles purchased are to be accompanied by bills, in duplicate, and are, on their receipt, to be inspected by a Lieutenant. He is to certify upon each bill or voucher in attestation of the quantity and fitness of the articles
(7) The Accountant Officer is to quote on the certificate on the bill the authority of these regulations, or any subsequent Naval Board authority, for the purchase, and to note that the articles paid for have been taken on charge in his “Materials Account.”
(8) Bills are to be submitted to the Captain for his approval before payment, and should be paid at once, so as to insure that there are no outstanding liabilities, and that the allowance is not exceeded.
The bills are to be numbered consecutively, a fresh number commencing on the first day of each quarter; they will be attached to the Boys’ Fund Account as sub-vouchers.
(9) The Boys’ Fund Account, and the money belonging to it, are in charge of the Accountant Officer, who, upon the Captain’s written approval on each voucher, pays all bills.
(10) The Boys’ Fund Accounts are to be considered in all respects as public accounts.
(11)—(a) The allowance will be allocated by the Captain at the beginning of each quarter. The Executive Officer is to submit the estimated sum which is expected to be required for Boys’ Fund purposes up to the end of the quarter, specifying the items of anticipated expenditure as far as possible, and allowing a reasonable margin for contingencies.
(b) At the same time a report is to be made showing the amount authorized for the previous quarter, and giving details of all sums expended. Any portion of the amount authorized which has not been expended is to be carried over to and allotted in the succeeding quarter.
(c) Money received from boys or youths for Boys’ Fund gear sold or damaged is to be credited to the Boys’ Fund for the quarter in which it is received.
(d) Should it be desired to incur any expense beyond the amount authorized for the quarter, the permission of the Captain is to be obtained in writing, the request stating exactly the sum desired and the reasons. If possible, all reasonable requirements will be met.
(e) The quarterly statements of expenditure and the estimate are to be made out in duplicate. One of the forms is to be retained with the Boys’ Fund Account as a debit voucher.
(12) Should there be any liabilities unavoidably outstanding on 31st March, 30th June, 30th September, or 31st December, a statement thereof is to be appended to the Boys’ Fund Accounts for these quarters.
(13) The Boys’ Fund Account is to be kept on the established form (T.S. 9). The Accountant Officer is to show on the account the sum allotted under clause 11 (a) of this article for each quarter.
(14) Each item of expenditure is to be entered in the Boys’ Fund Account under the correct head of expenditure, as enumerated in clause (2) of this article.
(15) Officers and petty officers who may have the custody of articles belonging to the Boys’ Fund are to keep an account of the receipt and expenditure of the articles in their charge; the said account to be examined monthly and initialled by the Regulating Lieutenant and Accountant Officer, and submitted to the Captain quarterly.
(16) Cleaning materials and other articles in constant use should be purchased for the whole quarter’s requirements. Wholesale instead of retail prices will thus be paid, and the multiplication of bills and inspections avoided.
(17) Credit is to be taken by the Accountant Officer, by certificate, for any accounts paid under heads (iv.) and (v.) which cannot be covered by vouchers.
Detailed lists are to be kept on board by which these payments are to be made, duly witnessed by an officer at the time of payment. From these lists the Examining Officer is to verify and certify (on T.S. 11) to the correctness of the total amounts for which credits will be taken each quarter.
(18) Ship’s Stewards are not to issue any article belonging to the Boys’ Fund without a written requisition, signed by the person in whose custody it will be placed and countersigned by the Regulating Lieutenant and Accountant Officer.
(19) The expense of printing invitations and programmes for the sports is to be borne by the Boys’ Fund.
(20) Small articles of clothing for the use of the boys, as detailed in chapter on “Clothing,” are to be purchased by the Accountant Officer, and recovered from the boys in the prescribed manner.
(21) A certificate on Form S. 17, showing the total amount disbursed during each month on account of the Fund, is to accompany the monthly cash account.
(22) The Boys’ Fund Account is to be completed and closed on the last day of each quarter, or on the supersession or death of the Accountant Officer; it is to be examined and signed by the Assistant Paymaster or Senior Writer, to be signed by the Accountant Officer and approved by the Captain, and, after being examined by the officer appointed for the purpose, it is, with all necessary sub-vouchers, to be forwarded to the Director of Navy Accounts.
CLOTHING.
6. Boys shall be credited with clothing gratuities as prescribed in Financial Regulations for Permanent Force (Seagoing). The regulation kit for boys shall be as follows. The cost of each article of clothing issued to the boys shall be charged against them on the Ledger:—
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