PAY IN THE NAVY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 228, 26 September 1931, Page 8

PAY IN THE NAVY

MODIFICATION OF THE CUT

LIMITATION TO TEN PER CENT.

[ Per Press Association. ]

AUCKLAND, Sept. 25.

A message wirelessed by the Admiralty to the British fleet throughout the world states that the cut in naval rates of pay will be limited to 10 per cent. The message says that Sir Austen Chamberlain announced in the House of Commons that the Government, on examining the scheme of reductions found classes of persons whom it would unfairly affect, and the Government, in view of all the circumstances, had concluded that the simplest way of removing just grievances was to limit the reductions as to the teachers, police, and the defence services to not more than 10 per cent. This decision will not apply to the higher ranks of commissioned officers. Officers and men who would have been transferred on October 1 from the 1919 to 1925 rates of pay would, from October 1, receive the current rates, less 10 per cent. Except where this would reduce their pay to below the 1925 scale, the' latter would apply instead.

As far as New Zealand was concerned, this applies only to 200 Imperial ratings on the sloops Veronica and Laburnum. CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS. [ British Official Wireless. ] Received Sept. 25, 5.5 p.m. RLTtBY, Sept. 24. The Admiralty announces that in view of the time required to give full consideration to the reports of the committee of enquiry on the pay reduc tions, the vessels of the Atlantic Fleet will remain at home ports until the second week in October.