THRIFTY TO THE END.
i I (Special.—By Air Mail.) 'I LONDON, August 3. j ' j The Scots do things differently from ■the English. A sensation was caused 1 some months ago when the Government ' Actuary announced that the English teachers' pension fund was £10.000.000 "short" because teachers lived lonjrer i than the actuaries had forecast. This ; j week the Government actuary issued his •: report on the Scottish teachers' pension I fund. It has a credit balance of £250.000. Reasons for the difference: In Scotland , teachers work longer and live shorter. , The average a-*e for claiming pensions iin Scotland is sixty-three; in. England ' sixty-one and a half.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 201, 26 August 1935, Page 5
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