Deferred Pay for Returned Men

Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 57, 9 March 1943, Page 5

Deferred Pay for Returned Men

Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Mar. 8. Replying to the Dominion executive committee of tho New Zealand Ii.S.A. regarding deferred pay to returned military personnel, the Director of Base Records states: “Personnel returning from overseas and graded 4 have been paid the amount due. Cases of personnel from overseas and placed in the area pool on leave without pay are to be reviewed in order of their return to the Dominion by a branch of Army Headquarters, and if the evidence discloses that these personnel are by reason of their medical condition unlikely to be lit for further military service* they will be graded as 31 J . This office will be advised and the necessary machinery is in readiness (1) To issue a warrant for the amount of deferred pay; and (2) to issue a discharge cert ideate. “If the review concerning an inindividual does not place him in grade 3P or 4, then he remains in tho area pool and deferred pay becomes payable when he is no longer required for military service. This may conceivably be at the conclusion of hostilities. Certain Grade 3 personnel are serving on the temporary staff and will not receive deferred pay meanwhile unless they are reclassified 3P or 4. It is understood that the review is under way and that expedition will be given when the lists of decisions reach here. “All cases of deceased soldiers, where, this office prior to tho Government ’s decision to grant deferred pay had completed matters w’ith the administrators of the estates, have been reviewed and the amount of deferred pay has been paid out. In future, where personnel or administrators of deceased soldiers estates are entitled to deferred pay the amounts will be included in the final payments and this is thus an automatic action. “Classes not yet entitled to the issue of deferred pay are personnel returned from overseas in service Grades 1 and ? and Grade 3 not reclassified as Grade 3P ami 4.”