SUPERANNUATION

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2433, 12 April 1915, Page 6

SUPERANNUATION

FOR CITY COUNCIL STAFF. Among the- important questions hofcro the City Council during tho past year have been those of classification and superannuation for the 6taff. These were mentioned by the Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) in the course of his election addresses last year as matters the council should undertake as soon as possible. After a great deal of hard work on the part of the officers, particularly the Town. Clerk and the City Engineer, the scheme has now been completed and a report is in the hands of the Mayor. It will be submitted to the Finance Committee to-morrow, and, if approved, will be placed before the meeting of tho City Council on Thursday next—the last of tho municipal year. Into tho details of tho schemo Mr. Luke said ho could not enter at present, but it provides for an Administrative Division and four other divisions, classified according to the nature of the work and the varied employment of municipal officers. In regard to superannuation, tho Mayor explained that he had endeavoured, with the co-operation of members of the Municipal Conference, to promote a general scheme of superannuation for employees of local bodies under' tha National Providont Fund. Legislation was necessary to extend tho scope of the National Fund in this direction, and last session a Bill was introduced making provision for the superannuation of the employees of local authorities to come within the scope of the administration of the National Provident Fund. .The details of the scheme are of a highly technical nature, and the gathoring of data and the preparation of tables and statistics, and the determination of contributions from the employee, the authority, and tho State respectively, had occupied tho Government exports for a long timn. "I am hopeful," said T\lr. Luke, "that information on the subject may bo nvnilablp for next meeting of tho City -fiawicil,u