ALLOWANCE FOR TROOPS
Sir.—The financial benefits enjoyed by our soldiers overseas have been painted by Mr. Nash in a rosy hue. I wonder if he would make a point, during his next world tour, of addressing the troops in the Middle East and explaining why it is that the private soldier still receives only three shillings a day, though the cost of living has risen forty per cent, in Egypt. This is not sufficient for reasonable- use on leave and in camp The soldier does not ask for more from the national exchequer, but he does ask for the privilege of being able to receive more than £24 sterling of his own money from New Zealand per annum; for "location" expenses anyway. Or perhaps it would not be asking too much of Mr. Nash if he could arrange for another shilling a day. of the gross pay to be payable in the Middle East where the boys need it now and not in some indefinite future. —I am, etc., FIRST ECHELON.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1943, Page 6
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