OFFICERS' ALLOWANCES.

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 14025, 17 January 1918, Page 4

OFFICERS' ALLOWANCES.

BRITISH SCALE MOEE LIBERAL. ■■. WELLINGTON January 14. : The British scale/of separation''allowances is now' substantially more liberal than the-New Zealand scale, as far as officers, are .concerned. A cablegram states tint the' allowance to the;chiidren of subalterns, aiul. captains will be ,£2 eaclf per; month,'.up.to a maxinlu'm.Oi' £S amout.i, and the age 'limit is) extended to eighteen years for boys and tra-ty-one years for girls. New 'Zealand pays ho separation, allowance for thir children of officers,-,,tut allows 83 ut day to a wife of a second-Lieutenant or lieutenant. The separation allowancV/of is a day allowed for tije! child 'Of a; ; pi;i- : vate or n.i\o. lhi:Nsy- Zeajijid the age- of sixteen years in the case gfV, both boy-' and girl, ay doe 3 aj3o 'the'.pen- ' sion of a' child.- Something more li» heard about 'allowances when Parliament meets next Jime. : -■'. y '...'' ."■