PAY OF WAR PRISONERS
(Press Assn) WELLINGTON, Sept. 3. A letter from a New Zealand prisoner of war in Germany drew the attention of the R.S.A. to a circular received at the camp stating that the pay received from the detaining Power was debited against the pay accounts of New Zealand Medical Corps or other protected personnel which fall into enemy hands. He pointed out that up to the time of writing he had 'received about 720 marks, which was much,in excess of his actual needs and that this allowance of 54 marks a month was being deducted in equivalent New Zealand currency frSm the credit in his Army pay account. The matter was brought to the notice of Base Records and the R.S.A. lias now been advised that the New Zealand Government has decided that all non-commissioned rank members of the Second N.Z.E.F., inclusive of protected personnel, who are or have been prisoners of war, shall not have their pay ledger accounts charged with any working or non-working pay which may be paid to them by the detaining Power.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIII, Issue 236, 3 September 1943, Page 2
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