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1908. NEW ZEALAND.

POLICE PROVIDENT FUND: REPORT OF BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION FOR YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH, 1908.

Laid before Parliament in pursuance of Section 25 Subsection (5) of " The Police Provident Fund Act, 1899."

The Board have to report that during the year ended 31st March last one sergeant and seven constables were retired with annual allowances under the Act and placed on the Fund. The particulars are as follows :—

There were on the 31st March last three ex-inspectors, twenty-rwo ex-sergeants, forty exconstables, three ex-detectives, two widows, and two children on the Fund, their aggregate annual allowance being £6,574 2s. 6d. Constable Thomas Fairhall was granted eight months' pay (£97 6s. Bd.) and Constable Charles Edward Hyde seven months' pay (£B5 3s. 4d.) on retiring, under section 12, subsection (2). The following Pensioners died during the year : —

The balance-sheet and statement of receipts and disbursements, as required by section 25 of the Act, are hereto annexed, from which it will be seen that on the 31st March there was a balance to the credit of the Fund oi £30,537 ss. 7d., being an increase of £1,411 4s. 4d. on the amount at the corresponding date of the preceding year. James McGowan, Chairman. 11th April, 1908.

Bank and Name. Age. Length of Annual Service. Allowance. Section of Act under which retired. Constable Chisholm, Hugh Jeffries, John Sergeant Latimer, David Constable Miller, William Hope .. MeChesney, George Roche, Maurice Stacey, Samuel Weatherley, James 60 65 57 46 65 65 55 65 Years. 25 41 29 17 26 25 25 31 £ s. d. 68 8 9 98 11 0 105 17 0 49 2 5 75 2 7 68 8 9 68 8 9 89 11 6 13 13 12 12 13 13 12 IS

Name. Date of Betirement on Pension. Annual Life Allowance. Date of Death. Jartmill, David Jhisholm, Hugh itacey, Samuel iturmer, Edward 31st December, 1906 17th August, 1907 2nd May, 1907 .. 11th November. 1903 £ s. d. 87 12 0 68 8 9 68 8 9 95 16 3 2nd July, 1907. 31st August, 1907. 19th August, 1907. 20ih June, 1907.