SUPERANNUATION PAYMENTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2836, 29 July 1916, Page 10

SUPERANNUATION PAYMENTS

AND nOUSB ALLOWANCES. Many public servants, notably school t'nehsrs. are paid for their work in cash and in kind, They arc given salary ami a free No account is taken in the computation of superam-uation of the amount of pay received in kind. . Tn Hh> ir<ni--e yssterdiiy Mr. Sidcv asked Ih? Pri'"o Jlinist'-r to Icok int-« this »v)te''. •which was considered a serious grievance "bv the nublic servants c"ni'en'cd. with a'view of 'laving an anio'iding cb.use put intn the Washing-up Hil'. 'I'll" Prim" M'rr'ster >"'<| tint the matle» had lieen before Cilrir< nn more than one occasion. rei'o 1, ' ,-I "ien was that Cabinet bad decided to take no actio" Ibis sess'on. If.e wou'd '.■el'i'Mi h ; - by looking u.p Hi". r?cer ! " F what r"'i.lly ('-"k nlace. to caution memb?rs geuernlly that it was not wi«e to out into the Wnshimi-n." 1!" l important provisions amemlim; nfntiit' la"- in the way suggested by the ''ononrable irmbcv. The Wasbing-un Hill was n"vr inf-:ided for anytl'ing of the sort. Ttnrins the past, fortnight, clauses bed l>een. sent in to the Government in dozens. Mr. E'l: They are local P>ills. Mr. S-iuie of them. T ndinif. oueht lo be introil"-"ed a= local Bills, and there arc others Mill more important.