SEPARATION ALLOWANCES
HOME SERVICE MEN , ? NEEDS. A matter dealt with by resolution of the executive of the Second Division League at its last meeting in December was the necessity for homo-service men, who havo to live in the camps or forts or otherwise away from their families, to be granted the same separation allowances as the men of the Expeditionary Forces. The question wae urged upon the Minister of Defence with other matters, but so far a reply has not been forthcoming. The official notification to Army paymasters dated October 25, 1917, setting forth the'new rates of separation allowances which were to come into force on January 1, 1918, had a footDote epecifically stating that' "these rates do not apply to men on home service." The matter was before the executive of the league again last evening, when a number of letters from home-service men were Tead, and the secretary was instructed to renew the representations made to the Minister. Commenting on the matter subsequently, the president of the league, Mr. E,. A. Armstrong, said that it was hard to understand how such a position could have arisen. In tho courso of the dobates in Parliament on the separation allowances members had a«kod the Minister specifically whether the new scale would apply to home-ser-vico rno'n, and he had stated definitely that it would. Hansard, No. 30, pago 866, records the Minister's reply to one such question as follows: —"Married members of the home-service branch of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force employed in New Zealand are eligible for separation and children's allowances, as allowed members of the foreign service branch of the New Zealand ■ Expeditionary Force. It is not proposed to discriminate between the foreign-service branch and the homeservice branch in respect to pay or allowances, excepting that, as employment in the latter category is purely voluntary, the number of children on account of whom allowances may bo drawn is limited to three."
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 97, 17 January 1918, Page 5
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322SEPARATION ALLOWANCES Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 97, 17 January 1918, Page 5
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