THREE YEARS' SERVICE SOLDIERS.
■ • :i FURLOUGH WITH TEEEK pay. . la •' « y (From Our Own Correspondent)' - "}.) Wellington, March 11. !"yj Sir James Allen, according to a tete -"yf gram from Auckland, has stated tI»V/J "men returning on furlough without who have applied for extended leave wUl<''J| be granted three weeks' pay." Presum- ?, m ably this means that the soldiers ratHnHijj j| ing on "duty furlough" are going to m5Jj! eeivc three weeks' leave with pay stead of the 3 weeks' leave without they received in the past. Almost every} ?|| returning transport now brings a number of men who, after three yew** ft*! service, have been given, the chance torn return to New Zealand for a brief haQ«'|tfg day. General furlough for Main BdUfi men having been declared to be impoßß+Jsj ible, these men are coming back on "dutyi 'Xjf furlough," but there is a fairly dettf.jk understanding, official statements to tha;f,Jjxj contrary, that the men arc hero for well-earned holiday. The stoppage 08 their pay during their leave ia a piece»of jjgM Defence Department economy that hMcg||j been condemned from one cud* of the Dor am minion to the other. In some cases It Jsj| has involved aptual hardship to if! ents. ,
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 March 1918, Page 5
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201THREE YEARS' SERVICE SOLDIERS. Taranaki Daily News, 13 March 1918, Page 5
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