RETROSPECTIVE MARRIED ALLOWANCE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1994, 24 June 1919, Page 4

RETROSPECTIVE MARRIED ALLOWANCE.

PAYMENTS.IN PROGRESS. Wellington, This Day. The Defence Department's undertaking that payment of the retrospective married alloAvauce Avould commence during the first week in June has been adhered to, about two-thirds of the total number of warrants having been issued up to June 17th. These Avarrants, 5,123 in number, represent a total payment of £191,468. The distribution of the remainder is rapidly going on, and the accounts of deceased soldiers are being looked up so as to pay their widoAvs the amounts of retrospective alloAvauce to Avhich they arc entitled. An analysis of the individual payments slioavs that the wives or guardians of motherless children of men Avho Avont away Avith the Main Body, embarking on September 23rd, are draAving £132 3s. There is a largo issue of warrants for (ho sum of £Bl 16s, Avhich is payable in respect of men Avho embarked on October 6th, 1915. The wives of those who embarked a year later draw a little over £44, and .as the date of embarkation comes nearer to the 31st December, 1917, Avlien the alloAvauce Avas made up t o 3s per day, I lie warrants correspondingly decrease in amount. The largest sums paid out are to Avives of lieutenants avlio embarked Avith the Main Body, as these did not draAv any allowance in the ordinary course until January Ist, 1918. The-warrants hoav being distributed mostly represent the country’s liability in respect of men undischarged on 30th April, 1919. Payment of retrospective married allowance in respect of men discharged or deceased prior to that dale is made after application has been forwarded to the Officer in Charge of War Expenses, Wellington. A largo number of the applications have already been sent in, and Avarrants are being prepared for payment and despatched daily.