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Originally Posted by RNeil

A few points on the timeline of the NZ Army Pay Corps from 1930 to 1947 to help fill in the gaps.
Many accounts state that in 1930 the Corps was disbanded, and its functions transferred to Civilian Personnel, this is only partially correct. In 1930 a large part of the NZ Army was gutted with many solders either forced to retire if in administrative positions such as Pay or Ordnance Corps transferred to the Civil staff to carry on doing the same job as a civilian and at much-reduced rates of pay.
As a result of these retirements and transfers, by the end of 1930, no military members remained in the NZ Army Pay Corps, but although its manpower had been disbanded it remained listed in the Army Regulations as a Corps of the NZ Army.
In the case of the Ordnance Corps, it had been gutted in a similar manner but still retained a small military cadre and as the government's financial situation improved resumed the recruiting of soldiers from around 1933, and it is possible that the Pay Corps followed suit.
In October 1939 a newspaper article was published identifying the different types of Puggaree used by the Army, listing the Pay Corps Puggaree as been Khaki/Yellow/Khaki.
With the mobilisation of the NZEF in late 1939, notices of officers appointed to the NZ Army Pay Corps begin to feature in the New Zealand Gazette from November 1939.
NZ Gazette No 1 of 11 Jan 1940, approved of the following appointments to the Second NZEF, taking effect from 5th January 1940
N.Z, BASE PAY OFFICE.
• Paymaster: Major F. Prideaux, N.Z. Army Pay Corps.
• Assistant Paymaster: Lieutenant W. C. Morris, N.Z. Army Pay Corps
So there is a documented time frame identifying the existince of the NZ Army Pay Corps from October 1939 with the identification of its new Puggarre, which it could be assumed was worn with the badge last worn in 1930.
Jumping forward to 1947, Amendment No 56 to the Regulations for the New Zealand Military Forces 1927 lists the N.Z. Army Pay Corps as one of the Corps comprising the NZ Military Forces, placing it as eleventh on the seniority list.
So the question to the N.Z. Army Pay Corps timeline is what was its status from 1947 to 1968?

Many thanks for the superb info and research.
All the best
James.