MILITARY AND CIVIL PAY.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16146, 26 February 1918, Page 6

MILITARY AND CIVIL PAY.

CITY COVXCIL S SCHEME

BENEFICIARY WISHES TO WITH DRAW. A letter was rove'ved by tlie* City Council Inst evening from one of iU employees who had enlisted, Sappor Arthur Beveridgo, who, -writing from Belgium, said. inier alia :—"When I loft the Council to ink- 1 on soldiering, i certainly never thought the job va> going tn ho Midi ;i long on.\ otherwise I should lnve iclonal the Council at tlui start i i"o;n making up my anuy pay to what I received while employed at tlit? destru tor. 1 al-o take this opportunity to thank the Mayor anil councillor:; toi the substantial s.uu I have already r ceived. J iio-.v propose to release the Council, in my ease. from their resolution to make n i army pay to what their employees rec.vved front thoni at time < f enlistment."' 'i he Mayor (.Mr If. Holland) considered it would he ijuile wrong for tlio Council to tako adventagi." of the offer. Bcver dge >honltl lieadit mv'.cr the conditions arrived at hv the Council on January 11th hi.-:. Other councillors suggested that the, matter should b* leforred to the Finance Committee, as the amount, was public money, of which the Council wcro the trustees. In lvp'v to quo-tions, the Mayor (Mr H, Hdland) said th.it so far as ho knew Boveridge, who was chief engineer of the destructor at the time of his enlistment, was receiving £'o per week, and, according to the Council's recent decision, lie -would b> receiving 30s a week army pay and the Council won hi be making up tho remainder. It was characteristic of the man the offer he had made. Ho was too generous to ask for money he had not earned. The Council should not discriminate between one of its employees on active scrvico and another.

Ultimately it was decided to refer, the matter to the Finance Committee.