PAY IN THE ARMY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23542, 30 December 1939, Page 6

PAY IN THE ARMY

SERVICE OVERSEAS INCREASES ANNOUNCED MEN IN RANKS GET 7/6 OFFICERS' NEW SCALE [BY TELEGRAPH —OWN WELLINGTON, Friday New and increased rates of pay for' members of the Expeditionary Force while serving overseas have been announced. The extent of the increase varies according to rank, but in the case of privates and equivalent ranks it has been increased by sixpence to 7s 6d a day. The following are the gross daily rates of pay as from the date of embarkation, the rates of pay, plus camp allowances, for the various ranks while in New Zealand being shown in parentheses : Officers of all arms of the service, except medical and dental. —Colonel, £2 2s Gd (£1 10s); lieutenant-colonel. £1 los (£l. 6s) ; major, £1 7s 6d (£1 2s); captain, £1 Is (19s); lieutenant, 17s Gd (17s); second-lieutenant, 16s 6d (16s). Other ranks of all arms.—Warrantofficer, class 1., 13s 6d (12s 6d); war-rant-officer, class 11., 12s 6d (lis 6d); squadron, battery or company quarter-master-sergeant and staff sergeant, lis fid (10s 6d); sergeant, 10s (8s 6d); lance-sergeant, 9s 6d ( —); bombadier and corporal, 9s (8s); lance-bombadier and lance-corporal, 8s (7s 6d); trooper, gunner, driver, sapper, private, trumpeter, bugler, 7s 6d (7s). Medical and Dental Oorps Officers of the medical and dental corps.—Colonel, £2 2s 6d; lieutenantcolonel, £1 16s; major, £1 12s; captain, £1 9s; lieutenant, £1 7s. Camp allowances payable in New Zealand are prescribed separately. In the rates for overseas they have been consolidated and arc included in the specified pay, which is the basic figure for unmarried men without dependants. Camp allowances payable in New Zealand, which have been added to the rates shown in parentheses above for the purpose of comparison, are: — Colonel and lieutenant-oolonel, 5s a day; major, 4s; other commissioned ranks, lis; warrant-officers and noncommissioned officers above the rank of sergeant, Is 6d. There is no change in the rate of the dependants' allowances, which, when payable, will be additional to the specified rates as follows: —Married allowance, 8s a day; -children's allowance, Is Gd a day for each child up to five under 16 years. Soldiers' Allotments The minimum amounts officers and men are required to allot to dependants are unchanged. They are as follows: Single man, 14s a week; married man without children, £2; married man with one child, £2 los; married man with two children, £3 10s; marriod man with three children, £4. No announcement is made of any change in the pay of nurses in military hospitals, whose rates now are:— Matron, los a day; charge sister, 13s; sister, lis; staff nurses, 9s. The nurses' camp allowance is 3s a day. It is recalled that in answer to a question in the House of Representatives on September 28, when rates of pay for the military forces were under consideration, the Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones, stated that pay actually drawn overseas by any New Zealand soldiers would be free of exchange.