SOLDIERS' GRATUITY

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1919, Page 5

SOLDIERS' GRATUITY

jit FLAT RATE OF 1/6 A DAY. f<ROM DAY OP EMBARKATION TO SIGNING OF PEACE. - OVHB SIX MILLIONS INVOLVED. DEBATE IN THE HOUSE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. i Wellington, Last Night. The following is the scheme of soldiers' gratuities submitted to the House this afttfnooS bjr Sir JM. Alleii:— N.Z. EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. (a) Estimated cost of paykg graftiity at Is 6d per day from embarkation to signing of peace on June 28, 1919, (£5,075,060. , (b) Additional to provide for minimum gratuity fbf twb yritfi' sifVice fit the case of mcmhera deceased while «n active service abroad £825,000. • (c) ArfMinwAl id pfflidfe f<rt ftinikiiifl gratuity fbr fcighfeien Mtttths' service in the case of members evacuated to Netf Zealand from an actual theatre of war on account of sicknesß or wounds |£213,000. . NEW ZEAiANDERS N MPfeRIAL NAVAL AND UriLlTAfef FOftCES. (d) Estimated colt ft! ffcffog ftiffereiiee between litfperiill atld New Zealand gratuity: (1) Army reservists and Imperial soldiift £16,008; (2) naval reservists and members of Motor Boat Patrol £23,00t). AtS OTHER ! ALLOWANCES. (e) Retrospective children's allow, fences £249,000. (f) Estimated cost of increased allowance to widows, mothers, and other dependents en tin revised basis of prefenlistment stipfferi up is it maximum of 8g a dajf, Wth retr elective effect if Necessary £60,000. (g) Estimated cost of retrospective jbayment at Expeditionary Force rate of pay to members of the New Zealand Expeditiwltot Force (including the home service brittcn) Who feciived lower Ter:i> torial rate of pay for the first calendar Sonth of their service in camp in New Aland. (h) Estimated cost of paying difference fcetweenMpetialftteft of pay and allowances and New Zealand rates for equL Valent rat<& to Army and Navy reiervists, nurses, soldiers enlisted in Imperial units, and members of Motor feoat Patrol who were domiciled in New Zealand: (1) Married (less any supplementary allowance already paid from New Zealand funds) £18,840; (2) singls (£81,540. Grand total: £8,048,380. v PENSIONS. It is proposed (a) to remove by legia' Utiofl the restriction which now debars the payment of disablement pension to the wife of a disabled soldier who marries outside New Zealand after disablement, provided the marriage takes place during (he period of his military service. (b) To give power by legislation to the Waf Pettsioils Board to consider for pesdioh special cases where marriage with a disabled soldier take? place more than tWo years after his discharge if the special ciMtnlStances warrant the grant bf a disablement pension. - Mfß INSDBANCE PREMIUMS. If a returned soldier not in receipt M * pension wishes to insure his life, My loading of the premium on account of impaired health occasioned by service Will be paid by the Government, provided Oct (a) the insurance is effected through the Government Life Insurance Department; (b) that the sum assured does not exceed £500; (c) that the soldier tnalces application on or before December 31, 1921; (d) that the soldier has paid the ordinary premium. Application should b« made to the secretary of the Financial Assistance Board, Panama. Street, Wellington.