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NAVAL OEDNANCE DEPAETMENT— J^URSING SERVICE 2401
" A xsistant Naval Ordnanne Officer s.
" <e) A Deputy Assistant Commissary General of
Ordnance, the maximum pay of ttie Office.
" ( f) A Quarter-Master, with the ranl< of Captain,
the Maximum pay of the Offif e.
"(Cr) A Quarter Master, with the ranlc of Lieu-
tenant, the minimum pay of the Office.
"Retirement to be compulsory at the ace of sixty.
The Kates of Betired Pay on compulsory retirement
at 60 years of age to bo as follows :—
Fer aJinum.
" Assistant Commissary General of £
Ordnance 5.50
"Deputy Assistant Commissary
General of Ordnance . . . . 400
" Quarter-Master 2S0
"Otlicera transferred, to bo eligible for promotion
as if they had remained in the Ordnanre Store
Service, but not above the rapk of Assistant
Commissary General, and otherwise to retain all
their rights and privileges as Officers of the Ord-
nance Store Department.
" Conductors transferred to the Admiralty Service
to receive such rates of pay, and on retirement
' such rates of pension, as may be assigned to them
by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, with
the concurrence of the Trea iiry.
i " Conductors to be compulsorily retired at the age
of sixty years.
"All rights and privileges as Ordnance StW»
Warrant Officers to be otherwise reserved to Con-
; ductors transferred to Admiralty Service.
"The Lords Commissioners of Your Majesty's
TreasuiT, aud tlie Secretary of State for War, bava
signiiied their concurrence in the foregoing pro-
posals."
Her Majesty, having taken the said Memorial into
consideration, was pleased, by and with the advice
, of Her Privy Council, to approve of what is therein
: proposed. And the Right Honourable tlie Lords
1 Commissioners of the Admiralty are to give the
' necessary directions herein accordingly.
' C. L. PEEL.
QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S ROYAL NAVAL
NURSING SERVICE.
At the Court at St. James's,
The 6th day of March, 190ii.
Present,
The KING'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas there was this day read at the Board a
Memorial from the Eight Honourable the Lords
Commissioners of the .Admiralty, dated the IHth day
of February, 1902, in the words following, viz. :—
"Whereas Your Majesty was pleased by Your
Majesty's Order in Council of the ninth day of
February, 1901, to approve of certain regula-
tions for the Staff of Nursing Sisters in Naval
Hospitals ;
" And whereas Her Majesty Queen Alexandra
has been pleased to intimate that it is Her
gracious pleasure to assume the Presidency of
this Staff ;
"We beg leave humbly to submit that Tour
Majesty will be graciously pleased to approve of
the same by Y'our Order in Council and that the
Staff of Nur.sing Sisters be designated ' Queen
Alexandra's Roj'al Naval Nursing Service.'
"We further humbly submit that the Nursing
Sisters shall be entitled to wearon the presorihea
uniform an embroidered badge consistingof a red
Geneva Cross on a white ground in a gold border,
and above. Her Majesty Queen Alexandra's
Monogram, viz.; — two A's red interlacing an
anchor and cable gold ; the whole surmounted by
the Imperial Crown."
His Majesty having taken the said Memorial into
consideration, was pleased, by and with the advice of
His Privy Council, to approve of what is therein
proposed. And the Right Honourable the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty are to give the
necessary directions herein accordingly.
A. W. FITZROY.
RESERVE OF NURSING SISTERS FOR QUEEN
ALEXANDRA'S ROYAL NAVAL NURSING SERVICE.
At the Court at St. James's,
The IMh day of October, 1910.
Present,
The KING'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas there was this day read at the Board a
Memorial from the Right Honourable the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty, dated the 22nd day
of August, 1910, in the words following, viz. :—
"Whereas we have had under our consideration
the necessity tor the formation of a Resei^'e of
Nursine Sisters tor Queen Alexandras Royal
Naval Nursing Service to provide the additional
trained nurses who would be required by this
Department in the event of war on a large scale ;
"And whereas we are of opinion that the
necessary number of additional Nursing Sisters
o»n be obtained as required by previor.T arrange-
ment with the authorities of the principal Civil
Hospitals of the country :
" we therefore beg leave humbly to reeonitncoo
that your Majesty may be graciously pleased by
Your Order in Council to sanction such arrange-
ments being made accordingly under regula-
tions to be framed by us, with the consent where
necessary of the Lords Commissioners of Your
Majesty's Treasury, and to authorise the grant
of pensions and gratuities for wounds to those
members of the Reserve who may be injured
while serving, according to the scale laid down
foi: Sisters in Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval
Nursing Service :
"The Lords Commissioners of Your Majesty's
Treasury have signified their concurrence in this
proposal."
His Majesty having taken the said Memorial Inte
consideration, was pleased, by and with the advice
of His Privy Council, to approve of what Is therein
proposed. And the Right Honourable the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty are to give the
necessary diTCCtlons herein accordingly
ALMBHIC FITSWOT,