CIVIL SERVICE REFORMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4101, 30 April 1892, Page 3

CIVIL SERVICE REFORMS.

Pension and Insurance

Schemes.

School Teachers and Railway Employees to be classed.

The chief officers of the Government Insurance Department are (says the N.Z, Times) at present engaged in preparing tables for a pension scheme and an insurance scheme for the Civil Service, and also special tables for the Police Department. They will be ready in about a week. As soon as the pension scheme has been completed, a copy of it will be sent to the Publio Service Association in order to elicit its viewa thereon, Power will be taken in the Civil Service Bill (which is to be introduced early next session) lo apply the above tables to the different brunches of tbe Service.

It is also contemplated to take power lo bring the' school teachers and the railway employes of the Colooy into the Civil Service, Speoial clauses will, of course, be provided in the regulation to suit tho varying circumstances of these two olasses of public servants.

With regard to tbo pension solieme it is understood that the Railway Commissioners have a pension sohome of their own, but we are informed that it is exceedingly complex, and not at all likely to work well, It is highly probable, therefore, that the Government will adopt it by introducing a Bill to give it effect. At the same time they will not seek to compel the railway employes to take advantage of any scheme—Government or otherwise—but will leave it to the option of the employes themselves whether they will avail themselves.of the scheme that is being prepared for them. The Government tables will be conatructed upon a selfacting principle, and the Government Insurance Department will be responsible lor the eolvoncy of the scheme.