SOLDIERS' ALLOWANCES.
INCREASES FOR MARRIED MEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day: The Defence Minister informed a "Post" reporter to-day that Cabinet had decided to increase the separation allowance of married soldiers with families. It had agreed that, in addition to 1/ per day allowance already made for wives of soldiers, 6d per day for each child under 16 years of age, up to a maimum of four children, should also be made. Therefore, the pay of a soldier with a wife and four would be 8/ a day, which is the same maximum as in Australia. The new scale would be retrospective, but the Minister hoped that those to whom it would be due would recognise that it would take some little time to get back-payment sheets made out. "I made it plain," said Mr. Alleh. "that this is not done now. as a special inducement to married men,, but to put them in a better position to go if they felt an earnest call to do so. We don't want to encourage a man with more than four children under 16 to go, though, of course, they are at liberty to do so if they think fit." *
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 51, 29 February 1916, Page 2
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