Gratuity Benefits

Native NG Servicemen Share Aust.

THE Australian Parliamentary Sub committee on War Gratuities, which has been deliberating for some time, has decided that New Guinea native Servicemen, as well as Australian, should share in the more liberal terms which they propose for the payment of gra tuities.

The Committee’s report was tabled in the House of Representatives in Canberra in May. A rate of 5/- for each month of service is proposed for each native Serviceman, the gratuity to be payable in March 1951, or earlier, in special cases.

The gratuity for natives who have died will be paid in accordance with native custom.