H.—l9d

1919. NEW ZEALAND.

GRATUITIES, ALLOWANCES, ETC. (ESTIMATED COST OF), TO MEMBERS OF THE NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITIONARY FORCE AND TO NEW-ZEALANDERS WHO HAVE SERVED WITH IMPERIAL NAVAL AND MILITARY FORCES, WITH CONDITIONS OF PAYMENT.

Laid on the Table of the House of Representatives by Leave.

ESTIMATED COST OF GRATUITIES AND ALLOWANCES TO MEMBERS OF THE NEW ZEALAND EXPEDITIONARY FORCES AND TO NEW-ZEALANDERS WHO HAVE SERVED WITH IMPERIAL NAVAL AND MILITARY FORCES. Overseas War Service Gratuity. . New Zealand Expeditionary Force. (a.) Estimated cost of paying the gratuity at Is. 6d. per day £ £ £ from embarkation to the signing of peace —28th June, 1919 .. .. .. .. .. .. 5,075,000 (6.) Additional to provide for minimum gratuity for two years' service in case of members deceased while on active service abroad .. .. .. .. .. 225,000 (<;.) Additional to provide for minimum gratuity for eighteen months' service in case of members evacuated to New Zealand from an actual theatre of war on account of sickness or wounds .. .. .. .. 213,000 5,513,000 New-Zealanders in Imperial Naval and Military Forces. (il.) Estimated cost of paying the difference between Imperial and New Zealand gratuity — (1.) Army Reservists and Imperial soldiers .. 16,000 (2.) Naval Reservists and members of Motor-boat Patrol .. .. .. .. 23,000 39,000 5,552,000 Retrospective and other Allowances. (c.) Retrospective children's allowance .. .. .. 249,000 (/'.) Estimated cost of increased allowance to widowed mothers and other dependants on revised basis of pre-enlistment support up to a maximum of 3s. a day with retrospective effect if necessary .. .. .. .. 50,000 299,000 (//.) Estimated cost of retrospective payment at Expeditionary Force rate of pay to members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (including Home Service Branch) who received the lower Territorial rate of pay for the first calendar month of their service in camp in New Zealand .. 97,000 (h.) Estimated cost of paying the difference between Imperial rates of pay and allowances and New Zealand rates for equivalent ranks to Army and Navy Reservists, nurses and soldiers enlisted in Imperial units, and members of the Motor-boat Patrol, who were domiciled in New Zealand (1.) Married (less any supplementary allowance already paid from New Zealand funds) .. .. 18,840 (2.) Single .. .. .. .. .. 81,540 100,380 496,380 £6,048,380