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New Zealand Mail, 21 February 1901, Page 59

The pension - pay of the army is on a liberal - scale when the rate of pay is taken- into consideration. After twenty-one years’ service a warrant officer is entitled to draw 3s 6d a. day, a quaiter-master-serd geant 2s 9d‘, a colour-sergeant or staffsergeant 2s 6d, a sergeant 2s 3d, a corporal Is Bd, a private from Is to Is 2d. It will be seen by this that a private draivs the same amount on pension as he would in pay, but the rate decreases as the grade rises, an anomaly which the petty officers have been striving to haye removed 1 . The gold medals presented by the Hon C H. Mills to the boys and girls attending Marlborough schools who secure the highest number of marks at the examinations were Von in 1900 by DaTid Stewart Mackenzie (a son of Mr T. Mackenzie. M.H.R.), of the Robin Hood Bay School, and: May McCormick, of the Watamonga School. It is worthy: of note that" both medals have been won by children attending small aided schools. The medals are of gold, with a silver star set in, and to a, silver bar on top of each is attached a ribbon vy which the medal is suspended. The obverse side bears the* legend “M.H.il. medhl,” and the name of the donor, while on the re/verse is inscribed the name of the pupil by whom it has been iv on. In India there are 5,846,758 girls between five and nine years of age who are wives, and over 170,000 who are widows.