POST AND TELEGRAPH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 310, 9 June 1915, Page 3

POST AND TELEGRAPH.

RESOLUTION'S AT THE CONFJiRENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, June 7. The Post awl Telegraph Association Conference continued its sittings to-dav. The following decisions, among others, were arrived at: — That the conference is of the opinion that the regulation requiring candidates for the public service senior examination to perform eighty hours' practical work was impracticable, and that the regulation be abolished. That in view of the Commissioner's expressed opinion that the district accountants should be advanced to the £423 grade, this conference urges upon the Commissioner the desirability of placing the chief mail clerks at Wellington and Auckland on the same footing as the money-order afnl savings bank branch. That the conference is of opinion that the difference in salary of officers in subdivisions 4 and 5 of the sixth class is insufficient, and that officers bohlim; executive positions in the sixth c'nsa should be raised to the fifth class. That where officers perform duties in another branch other than that in which they are classified the Department be asked to state the minimum term an officer is required to serve in such branch before his classification can be altered. That the lodging allowance be the same for clerical and non-clerical divisions. That officers who are under the Superannuation Act and have arrived at the age of sixty years should lie compulporily retired. That this conference, representing the Department having by far the largest interest in the public service superannuation fund, urges upon the Government and necessity of placing the investment of the funds in the hands of a properly constituted special investment board. That the Covernment be asked to make, the widows' pensions granted under the Public Service Superannuation Act £2)O per annum, instead of .018 per annum as at present; ."CIS was fixed when the old pensions was that sum. The old-age pension has been increased' to €'2(l, but the pension to officers'widows remains at the altogether inadequate Bum of £lB. That this conference respectfully requests the (lovernment to so amend the Act relating thereto to enable officers to forego a portion of their pension in order that their widow's pension may be made up to a minimum of £32 per annum. , That the Superannuation Hoard be asked to arrange that subscribers to the fund wishing to buihl or buy homes be permitted to borrow from the fund at a reasonable rate of interest.