SEPARATION ALLOWANCES
A RECIPROCITY ARRANGEMENT .WITH AUSTRALIA.
A reciprocity agreement for the payment of separation allowances to the wives of soldiers on active service has been concluded between the New Zealand Defence Minister and the wealth Defence Minister.
On March 3 the Hon. J. Allen wrote ta Senator Pearce as. follows;—
"I understand that your separation allowance is only paid to wives living at home, nad that living at liomo is intended to mean at a home maintained in Australia. We are carrying out very much the same practice, only that the Minister of Defence has authority to pay separation allowance outside New Zealand in certain cases. The amount' ,of separation allowance differs in the Commonwealth and New Zealand, but I should like to know whether you would he prepared to enter into a reciprocal arrangement. _ If we pay New Zealand wives living in Australia their separation allowances, would you pay wives of Australian soldiers who happen to be living'in New Zealand?" Senator l'earce has replied as follows: —"I desire to inform you that the Commonwealth Government will pay separation allowance in respect of memhoi's of the Australian Imperial Forces whose dependents are resident in New Zealand, conditional upon the Dominion Government undertaking a similar concession '"as regards the dependents ,of members of the Dominion Forces who may be resident in Australia. Instructions have been issued in accordance with the foregoing, and will come into operation as from March 1."
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2733, 30 March 1916, Page 6
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240SEPARATION ALLOWANCES Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2733, 30 March 1916, Page 6
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