p.

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your note book, so that you can refer to it.

Major's pay at 28/6 a day - L520.
B.C.R.W. 1/4 pay - 160.
Tour allowance @ 7/6 a day. 137.
L816

The above is all payable to Martins.
In addition, I have paid direct to me here, &
which you never see -

Colonial allowance @ 3/6 a day L68
Fixed allowance @ 3/6 a day L68
L136

Grand total L952

Pay is taxable. Allowances are not.
My colonial allowance began the day I set foot
on the M.E. It will stop the day I step on the
boat to leave the bloody place.

Fixed allowance is dependent on where I am
living - here, I have had it since Sept. 4,
all the time in Haifa I did not have it.
Income tax does take a most awful crack at