DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1917, Page 2

DOMINION NEWS.

RELIEF TO MEN ON SERVICE NEW REGULATIONS. By Telegraph!— Press Association. Wellington, Jan. 10. The regulations providing for tingranting of special relief to men of th« New Zealand expeditionary forces in respect to their civil jbligat'ons were approved at. a meeting of the Executive Council to-day and issued later in tinform of a Gazette Extraordinary. They provide that over and above a soldier's present pay and reparation allowance lie may receive special financial assistance up to £2 a week in the discharge of the following obligations: (a) Rent, (b) interest and instalment; payable in respect to loans and njortgages, (c) interest and instalments payable in respect to agreements for purchase of dwelling-houses, nusiness pru mises, furniture, etc., (d) rates and taxes, (e) insurance premiums, (f) psrenscs incurred in respect to the mnm tenanee of his business during bis military service.

Xew provision!* apply equally to men at present serving. future voluntary remits ami men railed up.in tlie ballot The new provisions are on the lir.es recently- grantpd at home. With tiie row .£2 a week provision a soldier in fhe Now Zealand Expeditionary Fore" may now reeeive up to the following weekly rates: —Wife only Wis. wife em! 6ne child ?Ts "d. wife and two children 02b Gd, wife and three children 07s Sri wife and four children 10;!s, wife ani' five children IOSs "d. A separation allowance is in some cases now being paid to men with a wife and five children but voluntary enlistment al present Is restricted to men ret having ;v.orc than three children