THE BRITISH NAVY
L E TRE XCH MENT RECOMMENDED. LONDON, June 20. The Select Committee on the Naval Estimates recommends that officers' and men s pay should be reviewed in 1924. The committee is of opinion that the administrative staffs need reorganisation and reduction. The report points out that seamen’s pay is still 150 per cent, above pre-war rates. The men are still receiving their post-war marriage allowances, costing £1,000,000 annually, while only one-sixth of the officers’ present pay is liable to reduction. WARSHIP NEW ZEALAND. SOLD FOR £21.000. LONDON, June 20. At the Naval College at Greenwich there were 227 students with a staff of 356 looking after them. The warship New Zealand, which cost the New Zealand Government £1,700,000, was sold to a British firm for breaking up for £21.000. The New Zealand was not sold bv auction, but after the Washington decision it was decided to scrap her and many other ships immediately, thus guttin ' the market and depreciating prices.—■ A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3615, 26 June 1923, Page 29
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167THE BRITISH NAVY Otago Witness, Issue 3615, 26 June 1923, Page 29
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