The following table shows the cost of two years' service calculated on
the same bases as have been assumed above. Two years' service would mean
an army with the colours not of 200,000 but of 390,000 men. This would
require double the number of officers and sergeants, and the annual
estimates for personnel would be L34,000,000, and the total Army
Estimates L41,000,000. There would also be a very great extra
expenditure upon barracks.
Estimate of Annual Cost for Two Years' Service.
13,650 officers at L500 a year L6,825,000
27,300 sergeants at L100 2,730,000
Pension for sergeants' annual class
of 27,300, decreasing by 2-1/2 per
cent., gives after twenty-five years
L12,403; at L52 a year pension
is 644,956
390,000 privates at L45 a year 17,550,000
Third year mounted troops, 20,000
at L60 1,200,000
First-class reserve 997,000
Training supplementary officers and
sergeants 500,000
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Carry forward L30,446,956
Brought forward L30,446,956
Colonial troops 3,500,000
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Total personnel L33,946,956
_Materiel_, allowing for extra
numbers 5,000,000
Staff and administration, allowing
for extra numbers 2,000,000
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L40,946,956
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