TEACHERS' SUPERANNUATION.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18219, 1 November 1924, Page 14

TEACHERS' SUPERANNUATION.

NO BILL THIS SESSION. (SPECIAL TO "JH rtMS.") . WELLINGTON, October 81. Mr G. Witty asked in the House of Representatives to-day whether- there was any prospect of a 'teachers' Superannuation Bill being passed this session dealing with the case of the 81 teachers still in the service, and that of 130 who had already retired from it, who had elected in 1906, mistakenly aa it had turned out, to remain under the old superannuation scheme. The Hon. C. J. Parr (Minister of Education) replied that he was afraid that there would be no such Bill tins session. He was in a position, however, to inform the honourable member that the Government now saw its way to give the teachers in question the relief they asked- In other words he believed that the Minister of Finance would have a clauso in the Finance Bill enabling these teachers to transfer 'from the old superannuation scheme to the new. Tliis would be a gTeat relief to the teachers,. some of whom wero now only getting half the superannuation that they would have got under the new scheme. There were also a small number of soldier teachers Who were ■ under a certain disadvantage a account of their absence at the front, and he would be able to arrange that they should come under the scheme on paying up their full superannuation contributions..