RAILWAY SUPERANNUATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 197, 18 August 1908, Page 4

RAILWAY SUPERANNUATION.

BACK TIME OF STRIKERS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Monday. A largely-attended meeting of the Canterbury branch of the Associated Society of Railway Servants was held yesterday for the purpose of considering the position of the strikers of 1890 as to their back time counting for the purposes of superannuation. Strong feeling was shown at the action of the executive in not taking advantage of Sir Joseph Ward's offer to allow the Society to buy in their back time for £1500, and it was decided to send delegates to all branches in the Dominion to place the position of the strikers before the members. A DUNEDIN MEETING. DUNEDIN, Monday. A special general meeting of the Otago branch of tbe Am.dgamated Society of Railway Servants was held yesterday afternoon, when Messrs Cameron and Watson, delegates from the Canterbury branch, addressed a gathering of different department* on the question affecting the offer to accept the sum of £1500 tor the purpose of making good for superannuation purposes the time lost by those men concerned in the strike of After discussion, it was decided that rtfn^r^f 7 . de,e _*t«« be heartily thanked for their addresses, and that in wM, e t?°K SL « proceeding «_i_- c Zh thiß bran<Sh W*» «ii s rta power to bring th* tame to _ __«__.• ml issue. ■