Civil Service Conditions
Sir, —Would you please answer the following questions: Does the Government —being, of course, the people of New Zealand —make up salaries to civil servants and teachers who have gone overseas to the dill'erence between their military and civil pay? What amount annually is paid into the Pensions Department for civil servants' superannuation ’by way of subsidies by the people of New Zealand? In tiie last war the dill'erence between military and” civil pay was, I understand, paid by the banks and mercantile linns to their employees who went overseas. COUNTRY.
| The Government does not make up the difference between the civil and military pay of civil servants in the armed forces, blit it does keep lip their superannuation payments. The Government subsidy to the Public Service superannuation kind amount'; to £573,000 a year, to the teachers' .-•uperannualion fund £107,0.00, and to the railways superannuation fund £258,000—Ed.. Herald.]
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21143, 10 July 1943, Page 4
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151Civil Service Conditions Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21143, 10 July 1943, Page 4
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