AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS
PROFICIENCY PAY RATE (Rec. 8 p.m.) MELBOURNE, July 10. Skilled Australian soldiers now receiving privates’ pay are to receive special proficiency rates. This decision, which puts the Australian Army in line with the British Army, will cost £1,800,000 a year. A proficiency pay rate of 6d a day,, will be granted, subject to gcod conduct, to privates who have completed six months’ . service and demonstrated their efficiency at the prescribed examination.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25275, 12 July 1943, Page 3
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