MARRIED SOLIDERS.
increased allowance for CHILDREN, [Pee United Pbess Association. ] WELLINGTON, February 29. Tho Minister of Defence informed a reporter to-day that Cabinet had decided to increase the separation allowance of married soldiers with families. It has been agreed that in addition to tho Is per day allowance already made for wives of soldiers 6d per day for each child under 16 years of age up to a maximum of four children should also he made. Therefore the pay of a soldier with a wife and four children would ho 8s a day, which fa the same maximum as in Australia. The. new scale would he retrospective, but the Minister hoped that those to whom it would be duo would recognise that it would take some little time to got back payment shoots made out. “I make it plain,” said Mr Allen, ‘‘ that this is not done now as a special inducement to married men, hut to put them in a better position to go if they feel 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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Evening Star, Issue 16050, 29 February 1916, Page 4
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204MARRIED SOLIDERS. Evening Star, Issue 16050, 29 February 1916, Page 4
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