DISCHARGED SOLDIERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24134, 28 November 1941, Page 8

DISCHARGED SOLDIERS

MUFTI ALLOWANCE [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION'] DUNEDIN, Thursday An announcement that the amount of the mufti allowance payable to members of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force discharged within or beyond New Zealand alter service overseas would be increased from £< 10s to £l2 10s was made by the Minister of Defence, tlie Hon. I*. Jones, to-uiglit. The mufti allowance is given provided the soldier returns certain articles of his kit. The Minister said that payment would be retrospective and warrants for £5 to all those soldiers who had returned to New Zealand and bad received the original grant of £7 10s or portion thereof would be posted to the last recorded address of those entitled to payment during tho next 14 days. Those returned soldiers who shouid have cleared their kit at local area offices would receive part payment, or £7 10s, of the allowance immediately, leaving the balance to be issued on receipt of ,the kit clearance. The Minister added that the procedure to be adopted for future returning drafts would ensure that £7 10s of the mufti allowance would be available within II days of the decision of the Army posting committee to discbarge a returned soldier and while he was enjoying his privilege leave. The balance of t5 would be paid when the kit clearance was received.