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DELAYED DRAFT DRAWN FROM NEXT TUESDAY CERTIFICATE REQUIRED (By Telegraph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Thursday Expeditionary Force recruits posted to the Fourth Reinforcements who are out of employment through the delay, owing to the measles epidemic, in mobilising the reinforcements for training, will begin to receive military pay from next Tuesday. They will receive one w’eek’s pay on that day and thereafter be paid fortnightly, in accordance with normal army procedure. Pay granted will include sustenance and allowances for wives and children where applicable. To qualify for pay each recruit must produce a certificate from his former employer stating he is unable to provide the recruit with work, or, in the case of unemployed men, a similar certificate from the Social Security Department. Men who have been re-engaged in civil occupations pending mobiliastion will not be eligible for Army pay. Warrants for pay will be available at defence offices in the various military areas throughout the Dominion and may be cashed at any post office.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21217, 13 September 1940, Page 4
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165MILITARY PAY Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21217, 13 September 1940, Page 4
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