PAY & TRAINING
AUSTRALIAN FIGHTING FORCES. GREAT WAR STANDARDS. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) MELBOURNE. This Day. The Federal Premier (Mr R. G. Menzies) announced the details of pay and allowances fixed by the War Cabinet for thejighting forces, including the Air Expeditionary Force. In broad principle, the rates are based on those paid to the Australian Imperial forces of 1914 to 1918—five shillings a day for service at home and six shillings for service overseas.
Mr Menzies also announced that, the Militia, after an initial training period in camp of thirty days, would again be called up, in two equal batches, for three months’ continuous training.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1939, Page 6
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110PAY & TRAINING Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1939, Page 6
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