MILITARY PAY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 142, 16 May 1940, Page 3

MILITARY PAY.

UNIFORM ALLOTMENT RATE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, May 14. An alteration in the amount members of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force will in future he required to allot , from their military pay during their service in the Dominion was' announced this evening by the Minister '-'of Defence (Hon. F. Jones). The new rate will be 4s 6d a day, the same as the overseas rate, in stead of the daily allotment rate of 2s 6d as hitherto. “Since the outbreak of war, members of the Expeditionary Force have been required to make an allotment of pay of 2s 6d a day during their service in New Zealand and 4s 6d a day while serving overseas,” said Mr Jones. “These rates applied to the First and Second. Echelon troops, but from now on the Government has decided to apply one allotment rate of 4s Od a day from the time military pay commences. The main reason for the Government’s decision was to avoid delays in payment to dependants and to Post Office accounts that were found to occur under the old system. “To maintain prompt. paj'm'ent it was quite a comprehensive job _to change from one rate to another within the minimum of time available, the clerical work with the increasingly large number of troops being considerable. Special facilities have been provided in each mobilisation camp for soldiers to withdraw moneys from their personal Post Office accounts should they desire to supplement the balance of pay they receive in camp.”