LIBERAL PAY FOR MARRIED SOLDIERS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1663, 18 January 1917, Page 3

LIBERAL PAY FOR MARRIED SOLDIERS.

IMPORTANT NEW REGULATIONS. Wellington, Jan. 16. Regulations providing for granting special relief to men in the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces in respect to their civil obligations, were approved at a meeting of the Executive Council to-day, and issued later in the form of a Gazette Extraordinary.

They provide that over and above a soldier’s present pay and separation allowance, he may .receive special financial assistance up (o £2 per week in discharging the following obligations:— (a) Rent (1 >) Interest and instalments payable in respect to agreements for purchase of dwelling houses, business premises, furniture, etc. (d) Rates and taxes. (e) Insurance incurred in respect to maintenance of his business during his military service.

The new provisions apply equally to men at present serving, future voluntary recruits, and men called up in the ballot. The new provisions are on the lines of those recently granted at Home. With the new £2 per week provision a soldier in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force may now receive up to the following weekly rates: — Wife only 82s

Wife and one child .... 87s 3d Wife and two children 92s 6d Wife and three children 97s Gd Wife and four children 103 s Wife and Jive children 108 s 3d

The separation allowance in some eases is not being paid to men with a wife and live children by voluntary enlistments. At present it is restricted to men not having more than three children.