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costs a very considerable sum. Senior Mounted officers are allowed two batmen ; Colonels and Majors in camp, not Mounted, have one ; and for officers of lower rank, one batman often attends to the cubicles, clothes, and trappings of two or three. Staff officers out of camp do not appear to have any batmen, or allowance in lieu of that perquisite. Only the rations allowance has a general application to all officers on pay. Outside of the camps it is received alike by the whole commissioned Staff at General Headquarters, and by District, Group, Area, Medical, Recruiting, and all other officers on regular duty, all of whom receive a flat-rate cash payment of 2s. per day, or £36 10s. per year, in lieu of rations. The following comparison of incomes will illustrate how this question of allowances operates. Pay is supposed to start strictly according to rank :— Contrast between Total Emoluments ok Officers in the Training-camfs and of those employed at General or District Headquarters. At Headquarters or in Districts. In Training-camps. £ s. (1. £ s. d. Colonel Gibbon, Chief of the General Staff 866 10 0 Colonel C. K. Macdonald, Chief Instructor. . 941 12 6 Colonel Tate, Adjutant-General .. .. 786 10 0 Colonel Adams, Camp Commandant ' .'. 882 2 6 Colonel Chaffey, Officer Commanding Bis- Colonel Potter, Camp Commandant .. 891 12 6 trict .. .. .. .. 786 10 0 Licut.-Colonel Hunter, Director Dental Ser- Major Hursthouse, Principal Dental Officer 720 10 0 vices .. .. .. .. 675 5 0 *Lieut.-Colonel Sleeman. Director Military * Lieut. -Colonel Neave, Infantry Instructor.. 666 12 6 Training . . .. .. . . 536 10 0 *Major Andrews, Assistant Adjutant-General 511 10 0 Major Sweetzer, Camp Adjutant.. .. 666 2 6 *Major Nutsford, Director Movements and Major Newcomb, Camp Adjutant .. 656 12 6 Quartering.. .. .. 511 10 0 *Major Wallingford, attached. General Staff 486 10 0 *Major Lampen, Instructor, Camp .. 64112 6 .. .?. ~ _.. o i- ,m I Captain Carvosso, Supply Officer .. 511 0 0 Major Ostler, Director Supplies and Trans- Major Banks, Quartermaster .. ..64112 6 P ort ,•• '■ •• •■ m > n) ° ("Captain Isbister, Supply Officer .. 501.10 0 Major Osburne-Lilly, Director Personal Major Ryder, O.C. Canvas Camp .. 538 0 0 Services . . . . . . .. 486 10 0 *Captain Bryan, Assistant Military Secretary 386 1.0 0 Captain Luckham, Assistant Adjutant .. 574 17 6 *Captain Cross, Director of Organization .. 386 10 0 Captain Silcock, Assistant Adjutant .. 574 17 6 Captain Cossgrove, Director of Recruiting 386 10 0 Lieutenant Baldwin, Ordnance Officer .. 430 2 6 *Captain Gibbs, Quartermaster .. .. 386 10 0 Captain Cheater, Instructor .. .. 514 5 0 Captain Rockstrow, attached General Staff 355 17 6 Captain Purdon, Instructor .. .. 529 15 0 * Lieutenant Jervis, attached Headquarters 311 10 0 Lieutenant Barlow, Quartermaster .. 414 5 0 Wilson, attached Headquarters 255 10 0 Lieutenant McDowell, Assistant Supply Officer .. .. .. .'. 364 12 6 | "Lieutenant Baker, Instructor .. .. 405 2 6 Lieutenants, Area Officers .. .. 257 10 0 j Lieutenant McNair, Ordnance Officer .. 402 15 0 (Lieutenant Bale, Instructor .. .. 395 12 6 Lieutenant McNair, when in camp, drew —Pay, £275 ; allowances, £127 15s. : total emolument, £402 15s Since the return was compiled he has been promoted to Captain and transferred to a district lie now draws £386 10s. * ludioates active service in tho present, war. Such is the existing position of officers' pay and allowances. it is a matter of history that since May, 1916, the Adjutant-General has several times attacked pay and allowances to officers on camp staffs, and the evidence was interesting as showing how matters could be delayed and side-tracked for one reason or another until on the 23rd November, 1917, the question of the AdjutantGeneral's jurisdiction in respect to* pay and allowances was definitely decided. On the sth February, 1918, the Adjutant-General recommended the abolition of field allowance and groomage. As your Commissioners, we now feel bound to offer the following recommendations :— The only change in pay of rank for officers which we think necessary is to increase the pay of Lieutenants on Staff work, retained on service in New Zealand, from 12s. to 13s. Bd. per day —say, to £250 per year, which, with £36 10s. rations allowance, equals £286 10s. Pay of rank for Lieutenant in the Expeditionary Force may appropriately remain at £219, the present rate, as the flat rate of field-