FAMILY ALLOWANCES.
EXPENDITURE IN BRITAIN,
Received November 16, 8.5 a.m. 'LONDON, Nov. 15
The War Minister (Mr L. HoreBelisha) to-day announced that tho increased allowance for soldiers’ wives and families became effective on November 13. He added that the £2 a week, where the rent was out of relation to the existing allowance, would he increased, also the allotment for children after the first child by a shilling for the second and third, and two shillings for each subsequent child. The lowest scale for a household of eight children would he £2 11s a week excluding rent. . Consequently the expenditure would he £12,000,000, which he expected would be doubled in due course, in addition to tho present amount of £25,000,000.
The Assam Congress Ministry has resigned, states a Bombay message. All eight Congress Ministries are now out of office.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 297, 16 November 1939, Page 7
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