DEFENCE EXPENDITURE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14593, 1 May 1918, Page 2

DEFENCE EXPENDITURE.

(i*er „*'jSbss Association^ .^laiLlNGTbjr, tfife day , -At :Jhe /p&gteft Expenditure- Gojnmisaion to-dayv^irfes F. ?oddav officer m chargd of ;th^rwat expenses branch and gso a twefls^: official, atated thai .pay. ihent to a-Mrife .or depended did not* necessarily- c^ .on *.he ..d^atlCo*. a soldier. Pe,^i»nS ; Avere paid' to soldiers from;th© datd of' discharge, but lie was not awao<e tli^e. Tyas any hiatus between dischai'ged and .flrfet-paymeni de6eaie<rbr difiOharged : O&e.p^&n was dkted.baclrto m time liis pay ceased Where an allofcmdnt bad Been <*mtimied" the. penaioh bbifckenced' afteV th« last payment of ths allotment. Pc -was not wsrare of Mip *to'?Satriotio BOCietiesr fttf maintaining soldiers or their dependents during .the period between the stoppage of pay. an^vtliei; fixing of the pension. Up to the 58tJ['Peb nww'y last the. following 'amounts hod been paid: Poi* *nd Telegraph Depart. m ■> l?^^ 1 ?"** "i sending out, war lisws; £112,143 j, oasuaaty,liatoA-£2S4 482 • hospital reports/ £9843 . fotal ; 7(^ Up to the end of ihe amounfc paid tor allotments >ahd " aliowanoa wa«» £6,965,925, of for -the- year .ending 28tl #6bruai^ iH,