AUSTRALIAN OFFICERS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 October 1939, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN OFFICERS

HIGHER RATES OF PAY. Though men of private rank in units of the New Zealand military forces, including the special force now training, are receiving 2/- a day more pay than those of similar rank in the Australian special military force, rates of pay fixed by the Australian Government show' that commissioned and non-commissioned officers in the Commonwealth receive higher pay than those in the Dominion. The difference is more marked with increases in rank. . A basis of comparison is contained in the following list of Australian daily rates, with New Zealand rates given in parentheses:—- Colonel, £2 5/_ (25): lieutenant - colonel £l/17/6 (21/-); major, £l/10/(18/-); captain, £l/2/6 (16/-); lieutenant, 15/- (14/-); warrant officer, class I, 13/- (11/-); warrant officer, class 11, 11/- (10/): company quartermaster sergeant, and stall, seigeant. 10/6 (9/-); sergeant, 10/- (8/6); corporal, 9/- (8/-); private, 5/-J7/-). In the list of Australian rates’ no mention is made of pay’ for second lieutenants, who in the New Zealand forces receive 13/- a day. The Australian Government has also announced amounts which will be deferred when troops are on service, ranging, according to rank, from 1/- to 8/- a day. A single man in the New Zealand force must allot not less than 2/- a day either to a dependant, or to an account in his name at a Post Office Savings Bank.