POLICE PAY INCREASED.
Wellington, April -I. The Hon. T. M. Wilford announces that Cabinet has approved of a. further increase in the pay of constables and sergeants of Is (id per day, while the scale for a permanent increti.se for all other officers is now being prepared for submission to Cabinet. The Cabinet Committee which reported on Mr Wilford's recommend-' at ions stated that it was necessary to increase the pay in order to maintain the strength of the force, which is now 800, as against 1,000 before the wtir. It wtis also necessary to grant the increases, as the war bonus ceased on March 31st. The house allowance for married .sergeants is also increased from £27 7s 6d per year to 15s per week. All increases take effect from Ist April.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MH19190405.2.20
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1961, 5 April 1919, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
132POLICE PAY INCREASED. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1961, 5 April 1919, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in