SENDING MONEY TO SOLDIERS

Southland Times, Issue 24152, 14 June 1940, Page 6

SENDING MONEY TO SOLDIERS

RESTRICTION PLACED ON REMITTANCES

Remittances to members of the fighting forces serving overseas must be paid into the public account at any branch of the Bank of New Zealand and the bank receipt forwarded to the Director of Pay Accounts and Base Records, Base Pay Office, Victoria street, Wellington, together with the regimental number and name of the intended recipient. Advice to this effect was received yesterday from the chief postmaster at Invercargill (Mr H. Miller). Remittances may not be forwarded by money orders, British postal orders or any other means, said Mr Miller. The total amount permissible is £2O New Zealand currency, for each member a year and remittances must be in multiples of £l. If the money is to be cabled, an additional amount of 5/should be included in the sum lodged to public account. POINT CLARIFIED When this advice was announced by Mr Miller to members of the Invercargill Chamber of Commerce yesterday, Mr W. Grieve said he thought it should be made clear if it meant that not more than £2O could be sent by one or more persons to an individual soldier, or if it was meant that one person could not send more than £2O in one year. In the second case, he said, a number of persons could send up to £2O in one year to a soldier, which would apparently defeat the object of the regulation. Mr Miller said he thought that the interpretation was that not more than £2O could be sent by one or more persons to any individual soldier.