MOTHER COUNTRY.
INCREASED ARMY AND NAVY PAY. v London, Sept. 30. \ Increases in army and navy pay are announced. Proficiency pay, at the rate of 3d or 6d daily, will be payable after halfa-year'B service, instead of two yearn ~ ' There will be an increase of a penny daily in soldiers' pay- for each year of service iinee the outbreak of war. Men with dependents will be relieved from /die. present compulsory allotment of 6d daily for .privates and lOd for sergeants. Hospital ttoppages will be abolished. Able seamen will receive 3d daily extra after three years-, with a correspond- • tog increased afloat allowance to marines, and conoewionß will be made to the ' navy, as regards allotments and hospital itoppages similar to those in the army. , S3O QUARTER'S REVENUE. • -Received Oct. 1. 9.30 p.m. T . . t London, Sopt. 30. .. The'ttiarfer'B revenue was £120.262,-
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 October 1917, Page 5
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142MOTHER COUNTRY. Taranaki Daily News, 2 October 1917, Page 5
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