TO GET MILITARY PAY

Taranaki Daily News, 10 September 1940, Page 8

TO GET MILITARY PAY

By Telegraph—Press Association.

UNEMPLOYED SOLDIERS ENTRY TO CAMP DELAYED

Wellington, Last Night. Provision for military pay to be allowed men who are out of employment • through having been called up for service with the fourth reinforcements, but whose entry into mobilisation . camps has been deferred as a precautionary measiire against a further spread of the outbreak of measles was explained by the Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones, in an interview to-night. ' He said that those men who were unable to resume their former employment were requested to call at the nearest defence office with their original callingup notice and on the date due would be entitled to receive military pay. This would continue as long as suitable employment was not available or till they | were again posted for military duties. Uncertainty of Entry. "At the moment it cannot be stated with any certainty what period will elapse before these men can be permit-' ted to enter camps," said Mr. Jones. "It has been recognised that a number of-men may have given up their civil employment in anticipation of their being required to proceed to camps this week and therefore they may now be out. of work until required to undertake their military duties. Co-operation and assistance of the former employers of these men is sought by the Government which requests that all employers who can poSsibly do so should retain or reengage members of their staffs who were called up for service with the fourth reinforcements."