PUBLIC SERVICE SUPERANNUATION.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1262, 18 October 1911, Page 3

PUBLIC SERVICE SUPERANNUATION.

A meeting of tho Public Service Superannuation Beard was held on October I'-. The Question o£ broken service , wnicli certain members of ihe police asked to bo allowed tlicm, and for which they nnd not made tho nayment required by t.ic \ct, was considered. The 1.-oarrt decided they had no legal power to grant the applications. The board considered tho claims of certain widows cf constables _ who had retired prior to the nir-n.l.samation ni the Police Provident Fund with the Public Service Superannuation Fund, and it was decided that, r.s no such allowances to widows were provided '.or by the Poll en Provident Fund Act, ti'.e board could cot legally grant such. ■\ memorandum on the position of non-Tw-mancnt officials of the General Pnst Office was coiisidertnl, and it was decided that such officials could not be admitted as contributors. The secretary reported to the board tun., the amount in the hands of tins l'nbli" Trustee on SoptwW 30 tn the credit of the fund was .£3U.!>St f,=. fid A committee was appointed by the b-arrl to bo into the question of conditions tn be imTwfd on any officer retiring the service befo'-o ho reach's full retirincr nne under S-r!rion 7 of the Amendment' Act of 1909. Rotirin? allowances were cranted to six officers amounting to J51137 175., end annuities tn fire wulows and two children, amounting to JEHC.