23 AUGUST 1919, Page 3

A well-informed correspondent writes to us in reference to our

remarks about the pay of naval officers, that we were in error in stating that the junior officers in the Navy would have their modest pay reduced instead of increased by the new scheme. " If the old pay of a rank," says our correspondent., " is in excess of the new scale, the officer can keep his old scale until by pro- motion the new is greater than the old."