VOLUNTEERS.
REDIICING THE; DEFENCE EXPENDITURE.
/ PAYMENT-OF qONTINGENTERS.
.■ b:,. Per Victim Assocfation. 1 ■»'' - Wellington^. January. 27; , ~" tJblonel ' ."Webb '.«uccceds^ Colonel NewaU .as. officer commanding the Wqllington- district'. • ;' Furrier, reductions . are_ being made in 'the Defence Department. The se*r* - vices of a large niimber of temporary clerks: are tt>' bo dispensed with at the end of the .. Witt reference to the complaint by the Dunedin Star of the dilatoriness on, the, part off the DefencevDegartmeut in Healing '' wit\t qlaims .7 by .^returned' troopers for monies alleged to- be due, ,the Minister 6'f "Defence \polhts out r ,that the reflection is undeserved, ,■ as two o£ the claimants were Jinally paid, while th 6 remaining "two were overpaid by n few shillings. .'Mr Seddpn adds that the 'men 4 s- pay. is in /no "instance deliberately kept back as -. ;' ' - '■-•'*'--'-■ ,
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Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12177, 28 January 1903, Page 2
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135VOLUNTEERS. Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12177, 28 January 1903, Page 2
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