GENERAL GODLEY
HIS PROMOTION AND PAY. The Defence Minister (the Hon. J. Allen) stated yesterday that the promotion of Sir Alexander Godley to the rank of Major-General (formerly his rating as Major-General was only a local and not an Imperial one) had oompellcd the New Zealand Government to consider their arrangement with him. Here General Godley had been receiving £1000 a year and a house allowance of £250 a year. But a Major-Genoral in the British Army on active service received in pay and field allowances about £1700 a year. Mr. Allen said that he could not see how the New Zealand Government could do otherwise than pay Sir Alexander Godley this extra salary, especially as a New. Zealand officer, Major-General Davies, was receiving a major-general's pay from the Imperial authorities.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2435, 14 April 1915, Page 6
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131GENERAL GODLEY Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2435, 14 April 1915, Page 6
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