ARMY NURSES
Clothing Allowances Larger clothing allowances for nurses both when they proceed overseas and return to civil life were sought by Mr. Atmore (Independent, Nelson) in an urgent question he asked on behalf of Mr. Barnard (Independent, Napier) in the House of Representatives yesterday. The .Minister of Defence, Mr. Jones, replied that the uniform grant of £5O, plus an annual maintenance grant of £2O, was payable to officers, both male and female, who were required to serve overseas. The members of the New Zealand Army Nursing Service thus received (lie same monetary consideration as did all other officers. The question of nurses’ clothing, said the Minister, was now the subject of correspondence with Headquarters. Middle East, representations having been made that some new system of issue would be necessitated through the difficulty that the nurses had experienced in making direct purchases in the war theatres. The mufti allowance payable to servicemen and women on discharge from the. forces bad recently been increased, and it wns not proposed to make any further increases m these amounts.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 271, 11 August 1943, Page 6
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176ARMY NURSES Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 271, 11 August 1943, Page 6
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