§ Sir I. Fraserasked the Secretary of State for War what arrangements are made for officers to draw their pay when they are abroad so that they may know what their balance is and may not have arrears to meet on account of delay in registering advance of pay slips.
§ Sir J. GriggOfficers' pay is normally paid into their banks, whether they are serving at home or abroad. Officers serving abroad are allowed to draw advances of pay, within monthly limits laid down by the General Officer Commanding. Under the system of recovery recently adopted in order to avoid the accumulation of arrears, the advances are recovered from the officers' banks; except that when the banks dishonour them owing to lack of funds they are recovered from pay at source. They are thus similar to cheques, and it is an officer's duty so to regulate his drawings of both advances and cheques that funds are always available in his bank to meet them. It is thought that most banks, in order to facilitate this, will either return the advance of pay slips to officers with their statements of account or will quote the dates of the advances on the statements of account.