THE RAILWAY SERVICE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 853, 27 June 1910, Page 5

THE RAILWAY SERVICE.

<> I ( t SLTEIUKXUATION MATTERS. ■ c A deputation from the first and sec- * ond'divisions of the Southland railways ' waited on. Messrs. J. A. Uanan. G. j. Anderson and J. C. Thomson, M.P.'s, , at last week, with refer- , ence to various railway iegulntions, aud r asked the members to make represen- | tiitians in rcganl to a number of resnlu- t lions, of which the following were the s chief: — i "That where a contributing member to the superannuation fund is dis- ° missed the service for any reason other 1 Jian hr. is a convicted, felon, he, providing he has been a contributor for a ' ]>eriod of fifleou years, be allowed to c (■oiitiune at his own option his o.ontri- \ butions to the fund for the peried lie- a cessary to enable him to benefit to tlio t full extent from the fund, this period t to be determined by his having at- i: tained the full retiring or havina; ' completed his thirty-live or forty years, v as the, ease may be, of service.' a'ssiim- }' i«K he had remained without break a ' member of the service." ? "That the retiring; ai;e of sixty-five is -i too hi;;h, and suggest that it' be re- J, duced to sixty, all retirements being j m&le uiicon.litionally compulsory on 7 that age being attained." i, "That the Superannuation Act be * iimen.'leil to provide two tables giving I , the right to members to retire on super- ° animation after thirtv-fivc or I'ortv ' years' service " 'J Other resolutions dealing with an amendment of the Suiierannuation Fund ] ; Act iis applying to widows of stiperan- | nuaiion nieinbers, reduction in stall' (re- |. gu hit ion No. 71)1, and holidays (re.gula- d lion 55, clause 2) were also submitted, i The members of Parliament remarked 1 thai, there was good ground for complaint in regard to several of the rogu- <: lations, and would bear them in mind. *- —« a