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though to help his argument he called the "command money" which he was receiving "Command Allowance".
He was informed that "the action of the Crown
Agents for the Colonies in treating your command
money as Naval pay for the purpose of calculating the amount of your Colonial allowance is correct and
in accordance with the view of command money taken
by the Admiralty for this purpose".
He is now
protesting.
Decided by Mr. Strachey.
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Commanding Troops, His Majesty's Hospital ship "Essequibo" in addition to his consolidated Army
Pay of 24s/ a day. He asked (30.10.16) how this
was to be treated. Mr. Cowell consulted the
Treasury semi-officially. Mr. Waterfield replied
that it was presumably what the War Office describe as "charge pay" and that if so it would be treated
by Treasury as "pay". Dr. Gimlette was accordingly
informed (21.11.16) that it would be deducted from
his civil pay in fixing the amount of his Colonial
allowance.
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Transport Allowance.
Lieutenant Commander A. W. Hunt,
Royal Naval Reserve, Nigeria Marine Department raised
this File/1816/19.West Africa. It was ascertained
from Crown Agents that Admiralty regarded this as "pay" and we replied (18th October 1916) that "as
the Admiralty have informed the Crown Agents that
Transport Allowance is for this purpose regarded as
pay and not as an allowance "the Secretary of State
was unable to authorise the Crown Agents to disregard
the amount of his Transport Allowance in computing
his Colonial Allowance.
Flying Pay
Captain . B. Hellard, Conservator of
As Forests, Nigeria raised this (File 1540/53).
Major Jenkins considered that flying pay should be treated as an allowance, I wrote semi-officially to
the Treasury asking how they treated it. Waterfield replied (25th January 1916) that it was regarded as "pay" and we told the Crown Agents to
reckon it accordingly.
Mr.
Charge Allowance or Charge Pay. Dr. J. D. Gimlette
(G/53908/16 M.S.) lent to Army wrote to say that he got a charge allowance of 108/- a day as Officer
Commanding
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