MONEY FOR SOLDIERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1942, Page 4

MONEY FOR SOLDIERS

REMITTANCES TO MIDDLE EAST. NEW SYSTEM ADOPTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A new procedure in connection with the receipt by the Chief Paymaster, Second N.Z.E.F. Middle East Forces, of cabled or mail advice of remittances to personnel of the Second N.Z.E.F. was announced on Saturday by the Minister of Defence, Mr Jones. “Immediately on receipt of advices the Chief Paymaster will credit the pay ledger account of the soldiers concerned with the sterling equivalent of the value of the money forwarded from New Zealand,” said the Minister. “On the same day he will forward direct to the soldier a remittance credit notice, and the soldier will be required to present his pay book and the remittance credit notice to the officer commanding his unit. This officer will make an appropriate entry in the pay book and return theremittance credit notice to the Chief Paymaster. “The soldier can draw against the remittance at any office established by the New Zealand Army Pay Corps, or from a field cashier of the same corps. “The experience of Greece and Crete and also in the Libyan campaign resulting in the loss of pay records, including the remittance warrants, on which the then mode of payment was based, has been one of the factors inducing the change of method. “It is considered that the new system will tend to improve the service to members of the Second N.Z.E.F.”