NAVAL RATINGS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 17, 21 January 1938, Page 15

NAVAL RATINGS

MARRIAGE ALLOWANCES

(By Telegrapn—Press Associaton.) AUCKLAND, January 20.

The old scale of marriage allowances to ratings in the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy has been restored as from January 1. When wage and salary cuts were made throughout the Public Service in 1931 the allowances granted to married naval ratings came up for review, and these were placed on a sliding scale.

It has now been decided to revert to the old fixed scale which, in the case of the majority of the ratings, has resulted in a higher allowanced

Owing, to variations in the amount of the allowances paid under the sliding scale it is impossible to determine the exact increase in pay resulting from the reversion to the old system, However, the majority of married naval ratings with families will probably receive an additional 3d a day. ■ *

far below that which took him through the first four days of the tournament without loss. At the same time he would have had to do his very best to beat the St. Kilda man.

Claridge played three singles games this afternoon, beating T. R. MacGillivray (Roslyn) impressively in the first and playing grand bowls on a tricky rink to account for Edwards. That his standard fell away slightly in the final was not at all surprising in face of Bennett's extraordinary consistency.