THE CIVIL SERVICE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 443, 27 February 1909, Page 6

THE CIVIL SERVICE.

: :>^'.law;as;-tq; retirements;;.- "j ~; .(BI TEIEGEArH—SPECTAI, COBBESPONDENT.) ,' ' :i' '.:: ;- .Jfir'stohurch, February 26. -Mr.. C; ;A.;Wray,:stipendiary Magistrate at limaru,'is among those who are to be retired next: month, but, : be has not yet-re-ceived official notice of his retirement;- Speak-.mg'tb-a- .reporter -yesterday, Mr. Wray pointed/out.that, if vhe were retired now if .would;meanJthat'his pension, to which 'he was entitled under the Civil Service Act of 1886, would ■ be. less by.'about £18 per annum than' if -ho were .'allowed to" complete his 40 years service in December next. He raised the question as to whether.the 'existing, legislatiori, did: not .prevent the. retirements being' made in. March.next,.as proposed. He .Part 1V.,0f the Civil Service -Act. (Consolidated Statutes) that the retire-' ,menta : could hot.be mad© until the end of the /ior.ph'ooming .session; of Parliament.-, Section '. 2 ? Ml,> tSpsectio'n,/ (6); provided: -that when any ..person,. retired. from; the publib service ;it -should not,he•; lawful to. grant. such person-, any : pension,- superannuation, 'or other' ■annual.retiring allowance until the proposal :to: grant such pension, or, allowance had been notified to:;ibe.General Assembly in,/ Parlia-' Mrient/assembled... Subsection '(6) further pro:yided;tihat"'at the/satee'-'time that' ! ahy : such ■nottfioation;-;'was;; made;; there ■ :'shoul'd' be • placed • before, the'. General. Assembly ; : a spe-' oial'.repbrt;.;,by .the.; Controller...and; Auditortoneral,.upon/the case .of the. person affected by. /such, notification;'."'amd. no ! action 'should ;be;.feken: : 'toi.procuro;the granting of the pension;; superannuation,- allowahce,of other ;annual•;retiring allowance-i.unttil• the end. of ■ Vthe,session of the. General Assembly.during ■which such notification and.report were eiveri '.ana-made/f;'.:: s''-3?-\ ;■.-.'■ ■;■::-. ■/ ■:. ■'.;•- ...■