PUBLIC SERVICE SUPERANNUATION

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2773, 17 May 1916, Page 6

PUBLIC SERVICE SUPERANNUATION

V 'The quarterly meeting of the Public Service Superannuation Board was held on Thursday, May 11, the Hon, G. W. Russell, Minister of Internal Affairs, presing. Allowances were granted to 21 contributors, retired by reason of age or length of service, for a total annual payment of ,£IOB3, and two contributors, retired as medically unlit for duty, wcro granted the full statutory benefits. Allowances were granted to 6 widows and 12 children, aggregating J!26i per annum. Consideration of one ordinary case was postponed for legal opinion, and of 5 medi. cally unfit cases for further medical evidence. In one ease oi medical unfitness the board decided to ask the Public Service Commissioner to find suitable employment for the contributor. Legal opinion is to be obtained as to the sufficiency of.tho certificate of death issued by the Defenc* Department when a contributor is declared by a military Court of Inquiry as believed to be dead.

Compensation under the Civil Service Act, amounting to .ESI6G, which would otherwise have.been payable out of the Consolidated Fund, becomes a liability of Hie Superannuation Fund in consequence of the above retirements.

On the motion of the chairman, it was resolved that it be a reconimenilation to the Finance ComiuiHee that in considering applications for loans from the fund, other things being equal, preferenco be given to soldiers who have been discharged with honour. On the recommendation of the Legis. lation Committee it was decided to ask the Government to introduce legislation to enable any officer who' resigned his position in order to join the Expedition, ary Forces, to repay tho contributions withdrawn from the fund, and count his service as continuous for superannuation purposes, on payment of arrears. It was also resolved to ask the Solicitor-General vhclher there i s any legal difficulty in the. way of a contributor, being a return, rd soldier, receiving n retiring allowareo from tho fund, if certified a« medically unfit for duty as a Tublic Servant, as \-e\\ as.a military pension. The Finance Committee renovted that the investment of the fund was pro. copclini* satisfactorily, and that the opera, tions had already resulted in a substan. till increase in the rate of interest -mod by tho total accumulated fund.