LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 118, 12 February 1919, Page 8

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RETROSPECTIVE PAY AN INQUIRY. Sir, —Perhaps you or some of your readers could inform'me and several others •interested in-tins matter when the Department hopes to make tlio payments passed in such n hurry by the Government during! the last session. I refer to the increase of pay granted to'oflicers with effect from .April 1, JfllS; rjso, the retrospective allowance to married men who left with the early reinforcements. It is now throe months, sinci the incren?o was sanctioned, and so far no fiirth'o? lhrtvs luis been received. Many of these men aro entering busilies? life again, and the sums due to thorn would help in a large measure to solve their repatriation problem,- and sa.vo tho Repatriation Department much work.— I am, etc., . . v '■'PATIENCE.", February 7. [The increased kit'allowance to officers and the increased pay to .officers. as from April 1. 1918, is pavable now on application being made. Tho reguhtions for the payment of the gratuity to nil i-ervjce men and of the allowance to married men in lieu of retrospective inoreased separation allowance- are not yet framed. We are informed that it may ;be f.ome time yet before these payments can pe made.] THE GENERAL ELECTION, j BULLER'S LABOUR CANDIDATE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Westport, February 11." Mr. William M'lntyrs, if Millert'on, is likely to be a candidate for Buller'at the next election in the Labour interests. i> '