DEFENCE RETRENCHMENT.
MELBOURNE, Juno 10. The Minister of Defence has announced that in accordance with the scheme ol retrenchment in the defence forces, 95 officers and quartermasters, 240 warrant officers and non-commissioned officers and 100 men are to be retired. The minimum compensation for officers so retired will be £2OO, for warrant officers and noncommissioned officers six months’ pay, and for men three months’ pay. So far as the scheme is applicable to the navy, the basis of compensation will be similar. —Press Association.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 421, 12 June 1922, Page 5
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