INCREASE IN PAY
Australian Soldiers CANBERRA, August 3. An increase iu the pay of members of the Australian lighting services and their dependants was authorized by the Federal Cabinet today. The increase will represent an extra 6d. a day to the fighting man, another 1/- a day for his wife, and 6d. for the first child. Cabinet also decided to increase from £2OO to £250 the exemption from taxation to members of the services.
The additional pay will cost the Government about £11,000,000 a year ami another £2,000,000 is involved in the remission of taxation. The rates of pay for the personnel of the women’s services will be increased proportionately.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 263, 5 August 1942, Page 6
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110INCREASE IN PAY Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 263, 5 August 1942, Page 6
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