TRAVEL ALLOWANCES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20923, 13 July 1931, Page 11

TRAVEL ALLOWANCES.

CIVIL SERVICE REGULATIONS. NEW SCALE FIXED. Travelling allowances, overtime rates and lodging and relieving payments for public servants are amended by a notice gazetted last week. Travelling allowances -are generally higher than those fixed by the regulation of 1913, which is now replaced. In that year officers receiving salaries of over £6OO a year were allowed 17s 6d a day for personal expenses while travelling. It is now provided that 18s a day shall be paid to officers receiving in excess of £SOB 10s a year. ' Officers on salaries of from £IOO to £4OO a year were previously allowed 10s a day for travelling. The scale is now 12s a day for salaries between '£l3o 10s and £342, with correspondingly higher allowances for those receiving between £342 and £SOB 10s.

Those receiving under £l3O 10s will receive '"actual expenses." A lodging allowance of £3l 10s a year is to be paid to officers in the first subdivision of class F of the professional division. The regulation of 1913 allowed £lB a year. Amended rates are provided for other subdivisions. Where overtime rates are sanctioned in the professional and clerical divisions, they range from Is 4d an hour in the class up to £162 a year to 3s an hour for officers receiving between £342 and £432.