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SUPERANNUATION

J Sir—A widow's pension under tha superannuation scheme is .£lB per year, s Each child's allowance is ss. per week. ' Sinco by a largo majority these amounts 1 are considered quite inadequate, there ' has beeu some agitation lately to increase : the same. A conference was held, this t question being brought forward. Tho \ upshot of the discussion was-a preposterous idea to think of granting a larger allowance. Who are these delegates to decide such a momentous question? And will you kindly show me one of these who would even try to exist on '. tho pittance dealt out to these widows. We nil know that tho Government rei centlv granted a war bonus to married Civil' Servants, amounting in many cases to more than tho widow's entire pension; , and yet: while these same gentlemen un- • hesitatingly draw their own liberal in- • creases, they squash absolutely any pro- , posal to raise the existing miserable pen- ■ sions of the widowed and the fatherless. . —I am, etc., ONE OF THE WIDOWS. ' [Our correspondent probably refers to ; the Public Service Association's recent conference. Possibly she has not noticed the following remit which was approved by the conference;—" That there' lie an increase in the pensions to ; widows, either through an increase iu the contributions of contributors, or through the reduction in an officer's retiring allowance (at his option)."]

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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 247, 6 July 1918, Page 8

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SUPERANNUATION Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 247, 6 July 1918, Page 8

SUPERANNUATION Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 247, 6 July 1918, Page 8

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