RETIRED PUBLIC SERVANTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 4 October 1927, Page 8

RETIRED PUBLIC SERVANTS.

COMPETITION IN INDUSTRY. MR. J. A. HAN AN'S CRITICISM

The principle of superannuated public servants competing with others after their retirement was questioned by Mr. J. A. Hunan, speaking in the Legislative Council on Thursday. There was a very common feeling and complaint, he said, against people who received substantial superannuation allowances on their retirement and entered into competition in industry with men of less means who had contributed as taxpayers to the special subsidy paid by the Government in respect of the Public Service Superannuation Fund.

Mr. J. Barr thought it pas not in the interests of true economy that superannuated public servants should remain idle after their retirement. He would like to see every individual in the community using his energy to the utmost service so long as be could, no matter whether be was retired or not. Mr.' A. S. Mai ohu said he did not see why the services of public servants who had made themselves expert in their work should he allowed to he lost. \Yhv should tliev be retired at ally The Associate-Leader of the Council (Sir IL Heaton Rhodes’) commented oil Mr. Hauairs criticism with the remark that he did not know whether there were many men who had been s'MK'iannuatcd and who carried on in other lines of business. Tn some cases there were experts and men of exceptional ability who had gained good positions outside. They all knew of one case of a man who was receiving superannuation allowance and was continuing in the occupation in which he was employed in the Government service. No doubt he wos not an economic loss to the country.