MUFTI ALLOWANCE
£10,006 BEING PAID [by telegraph—press association] BUNEDIN, Friday "The total involved in these pay-. ments is approximately £10,000," said the Minister of Defence, the Hon. ,F. Jones, to-day when referring to the amount already forwarded to returned men to cover the increase in the payment of mufti allowances. The increase is from £7 10s to £l2 10s to discharged soldiers returning from overseas. "The settlement of payments due 'to soldiers already returned has been treated as a matter-of extreme urgency in the Base Records Office, Welling-, ton," Mr. Jones said, "and by t-nis evening warrants for the payment of £5 each to 1559 men, £7 10s each to 127 soldiers who have not yet returnf-d their kits, and the full payment of_£l4 10s to 41 men whose kits now been cleared will be in hands of the Post Office for delivery. 1 '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24135, 29 November 1941, Page 10
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144MUFTI ALLOWANCE New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24135, 29 November 1941, Page 10
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