Anomalous Salaries

Levin Daily Chronicle, 11 May 1918, Page 4

Anomalous Salaries

IN THE DEFENCE FORCE

Anomalies in the pay received by military officers was the subject of considerable comment by the Chairman of the Defence Expenditure Commission (Sir Bobert Anderson), when Colonel Gibbon, C.G.S., was giving evidence yesterday. He read a list giving the contrast between the pay and allowances of officers in the Training Camps and at Headquarters, where, the official list stated, expenses are infinitely higher. The total amounts of pay and allowances was shown as one in ell cases. The list was as follows: —Officers at- Headquarters Colonel Tate £786 10s, Colonel Chaffey £786 10s, Lieut.-Colonel Hunter (dental) £536 10s, Lieut.-Colonel Sleeman £536 10s, Major Andrews £511 10s, Major Nuttsford £511 10s, Major Wallingford £486 10s, Major Osborne-Lily £486 10s, Captain Bryan £386 10s, Captain Cross £386 10s, Captain Cossgrove £386 10s, Captain Gibbs £386 10s, Captain Bockstrow £355 17s 6d, Lieutenant Jervis £311 10s, 19 lieutenants (area offieers) £257 10s each, 4 second lieutenants (area offij cers), £255 10s each.

Officers in the Training Camps: Colonel Adams and Colonel Potter £855 2s 6d, Colonel McDonald £941 17s 6d, Lieut.-Colonel Hursthouse (Dental, assistant to Lieut.-Colonel Hunter) £720 iOs, Lieut.-Colonel Neave £741 12s 6d, Lieut.-Colonel Cumming £638 7s 6d, Major Sweetzer £666 7s 6d, Major Newcomb £656 12s 6d, Major Lampen £641 12s 6d, Major Fraser £565 7s 6d, Major Banks - £641 12s 6d, Captain Luckham £574 17s 6d, Captain Silcock £574 17s 6d, Captain Wood £554 15s, Captain Cheater £514 ss, Captain Purdon £504 15s, Lieutenant Barlow £414 ss, Lieutenant A. G. Baker £405 2s 6d, Lieutenant M'Nair £402 15s, Lieutenant Baldwin £402 15a, Lieutenant Bale £395 12s 6d, Lieutenant Quilliam £392; 26 second lieutenants, assistant instructors £300 15s each.