PAY IN EGYPT.
EQUIVALENT IN STERLING.
STATEMENT BY MINISTER
(Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, This Day
The Minister of Defence (the Hon. F. Jones), dealing with aspects of the system adopted by the Government for the payment of New Zealand soldiers in Egypt, said that all such payments were charged to the New Zealand Government. had been made to borrow from the British Government the cost of maintaining our forces abroad, but the Government’s policy is to meet such costs from New Zealand as far as possible and to use the borrowing arrangement for the balance only,” said the Minister. A private soldier received 7s 6d a day, of which lie was required to allot, before leaving New Zealand, 4s 6cl a day.* He could allot more if ho chose, but he must retain, not less than 2s a day himself. Whatever sum the soldier elected to draw abroad, he received free of exchange from New Zealand currency into sterling. If the amount was 3s, then he. was paid in Egyptian currency the equivalent of 3s sterling.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 45, 3 December 1940, Page 5
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