THE ADJUTANCY OF A MILITIA ARTILLERY UNIT. 
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velopes containing tlie money due to them; their railway fares being 
paid to the limits of the county to which the unit belongs. 
The Non-Training Period. 
With the disbandment of the unit commences the third period of the 
Militia year, technically known as the “ Non-Training Period.” For 
the first two months the N.-C.O/s and trumpeters of the Permanent 
Staff are occupied in cleaning, brushing and folding the clothing of the 
Militiamen; during the whole of this period the Permanent Staff 
parade daily at 10 a.m., and are inspected at least twice a week by the Para. 372 
Adjutant; and during the last month of this period, immediately before Regulations, 
the Preliminary Drill, the Permanent Staff are put through a course of 1893, 
re-drilling under the Adjutant. 
A building, formerly an hotel, which is contiguous to the camping 
ground, and which belongs to or is leased by the Government, has been 
converted into a barracks, and is the head-quarters of the unit; the 
ground floor contains an orderly room, guard room, prisoners' room 
and one cell, Commanding Officer's office, Officers' Mess and ante-rooms 
and Officers' Mess kitchen. O 11 the first floor are married quarters for 
the Regimental Sergeant-Major and Sergeant Instrnctor-in-Gunnery, 
the Quartermaster's office and stores, and store for the clothing and 
equipment of companies, which is in charge of the Company Sergeant- 
Majors, under the Quartermaster. 
Adjutant's Pay and Allowances. 
The pay of an Adjutant, if a Captain, is 16s. a day and the allowances 
as follows:— 
Extra duty pay as Recruiting Officer 
Lodging allowance 
Fuel and light allowance. 
Servant's allowance 
Forage for one horse 
Stabling 
2s. 6d. a day 
2s. 3d. ,, 
3d. or 6d. „ 
Is. Od. „ 
Is. 7d. „ 
9d. „ 
Messing allowance, 4s. Od. a day during Preliminary Drill and Training, 
and tentage 3s. Od. a day when under canvas. The pay of an Adju¬ 
tant, if a Subaltern, is 12s. 6d. a day, and allowances the same as 
those of a Captain. 
The foregoing particulars, it must be remembered, refer exclusively 
to the unit with which the writer is familiar at the time of writing; 1 
variations occur, for instance, a unit with less than five companies is 
not entitled to the services of a Quartermaster, whose duties have then 
to be performed by the Adjutant; again, all Adjutants are not paid 
Recruiting Officers. The qualifications necessary for appointment to 
an Adjutancy of Militia are given in U R. A. Standing Orders, 1893,'' and 
the names of Adjutants, with the dates of their appointment and the 
stations at which they are quartered, are given in the Regimental List 
issued monthly from R.A. Institution. 
January , 1894 . 
