RETIREMENTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 451, 9 March 1909, Page 4

RETIREMENTS.

AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. Tho following officers .-will rotiro from the Department of Agriculture at the end of thq month, having reached the ago limit:— j John Drummond, inspector-of stock, Wclliugton; thirty-six years' service. J. W. Palmer, horticulturist, Moumahaki experimental farm and: Tauranga fruit-test-ing station; sixteen years' service. Alexander Ironside, inspector of stock, Oamaru; twenty-four years' service. J. Moffot, caretakor of South Canterbury rabbit fence; tweniy-ono years' service. OTHER DEPARTMENTS. In the Public Works Department Messrs. J. R. Hudson and William Annand, over. seers at Greyinouth and Auckland, will reMr. A. E. Bybles is tho only officer of tho Audit Department who retires. r . Tho retirements from tho Valuation Department are as follow:— 11. Gardner, district valuer, Falmerston North. ; A. Pyper, district valuer, Invorcargill . THE .SUPERANNUATION FUND. A fear has been felt in. some quarters that Iho Civil Service Superannuation Fund would be embarrassed by the demands inmle upon it through the simultaneous retirement of a large number of officers. Sir Joseph Ward, however, assured a Dojh!>7ON reporter yesterday that there was not the least cause for anxiety on that account. Iho fund was established to meet such nil event, ho said, and it was,made financially Bound. The general position of tho service and Iho ages of all tho officers were taken fully into consideration, and the possibility of bringing (be ago limit into operation at Co years, if not at 60, was foreseen and provided for. The whole scheme on .this basis was carefully examined by himself ami by tho committee to which it «ms referred, and thero was not the slightest doubt that it was fully capablo of meeting. all the demands that could be made upon it.