ANOMALOUS SALARIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 May 1918, Page 5

ANOMALOUS SALARIES.

IN THE DEFENCE FOKCE. Anomalies ia the pay received by military officers was the subject of considerable comment by the chairman *f the Defence Expenditure Commission (•Sir Kobert Anderson), when Colonel Gibbon, C.G.S., was giving evidence on | Thursday. He read u, list giving the com trast between the pay aud allowances of officers in the training camps and at headquarters, where, the official list steted, the expenses arc infinitely higher: The total amounts of pay and allowances were shown as one in all cases. The list ' was as follows 1 : Officers at Headquarters: Colonel Tate,' "' £786 10s, Colonel Chaffey £786 10s, Lieut-Colonel Hunter (dental) £536 10s, Lieut-Colonel Sleeman £536 10s, Mate Andrews £sll 10s, Major Nutsford £&! 10s, Major Wttllingford £486 10s, MajS Osborne-Lilly £486 10s, Captain Bryttf £386 10s, Captain Cross £BB6 10s, CSptam Cossgrove £386 10s, Captain Gibba £386 10s, Captain Rockstrow £355 tit 6d, Lieut. Jervis £3ll 10a, 10 lieutenants (area officers) £257 10s eaeh, 4 seconflheutenants (area officers)' £255 10s earth. Officers in the Training Camps: ColoiSel Adams and Colonel Potter £855 2s'6d, Colonel Macdonald £941 12s Od, Lieut.Colonel Hursthouse (Dental, assistant to Lieut.-Colonel Hunter) £720 10s, LieutColonel Neave £741 12s 6d, Lieut-Colonel Cumming £638 17b 6d, Major Sweetzer ? £666 2s Od, Major Newcomb £656 12a .- 6d, Major Lampen £B4l 12s od, Major •' Eraser £565 7s 6d, Major Banks £641 12s 6d, Captain Luckham £574 17s 6d, Captain Silcock £574 17s 6d, Captain > Wood £554 15s, Captain Cheater £514 ' 15s, Captain Purdon £504 15s, Lieut. Barlow £414 6s, Lieut. A. G. Baker £405 2s 6d, Lieut. McNalr £402 15s, Lieut. i Baldwin £402 15s, Lieut. Bale £402 12s ' 6d, Lieut. Quilliam £362; 20 lieutenants, assistant Instructors, £3OO J les each. - ■$