Acquisition of Knowledge of Foreign Languages by Officers of the R.N. and R.M. — Additions to list of languages for which special allowances and gratuities are payable

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Admiralty Order in Council No. 141.

28th July 1906.

Whereas by Your Majesty's Order in Council of the 7th March 1904 certain regulations were approved with a view to encouraging the acquisition of a knowledge of Foreign languages by Officers of Your Majesty's Navy and Royal Marines :

And whereas we consider it desirable that the Schedule specifying the Foreign Languages affected by these regulations should be amended so as to include Turkish, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian :

We beg leave humbly to recommend that Your Majesty may be graciously pleased by Your Order in Council to sanction the substitution of the annexed Schedule for that accompanying the Order in Council above referred to.

The Lords Commissioners of Your Majesty's Treasury have signified their concurrence in this proposal.

Schedule.

Language	Duration of Residence Abroad		Gratuity on qualifying.		Additional Pay whilst employed
	For Higher Standard (Interpreter)	For Lower Standard	For Higher Standard (Interpreter)	For Lower Standard	As Interpreter Higher Standard		As Acting Interpreter Lower Standard
	Months	Months	Ł	Ł	Per diem.		Per diem.
					s.	d.	s.	d.
Japanese	12	6	200	100	2	6	1	0
Chinese
Russian	9	6	150	75	2	6
Turkish
German	6	4	70	35	2	0
Dutch
Danish
Swedish
Norwegian
Modern Greek
French	4	3	50	25	1	6
Italian
Spanish
Portuguese

N. 7893 / 1906.

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