CIVIL SERVICE SUPERANNUATION.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43116, 11 July 1907, Page 4

CIVIL SERVICE SUPERANNUATION.

Considerable activity is now being 1 shown all over the colony by members of the civil service not. otherwise provided for in the direction of getting i a measure passed providing for super-1 animation. It will be remembered that this matter lias been placed before the House at the last two sessions, and it is now being again taken up with a view to obtaining a. practical issue. In Otago much lias been done to this end, and a petition, urging the importance of the matter on the Government, is being widely signed by all branches of the service, with the exception of the Railway and Police Departments, which are, of scourse, already provided for under their separate schemes. There is said to- be a general cry for the bill, and it is considered not unlikelv that it will receive strong suprort from both sides of the House should the actuarial report, for which it was bun- up last, session, bo favourable. The present condition of the civil service in this respect is considered to be eminently unsatisfactory, in so far as thousands who have devoted some of the best years of their lives to the service of the State have at present absolutely no' provision for their declining rears, whilst in a number of cases: the salaries paid have, it is stated, .prevented even, the most frugal from making such provision as may have been open in the direction of the purchase of annuities in the life 1 insurance societies.