GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 14 April 1908, Page 4

GENERAL TELEGRAMS.

RAILWAY SUPERANNUATION -: <-•■-, ..v '..eund. IPBKSB AijJOOUTIONj ..^ELLINGTON, April 13. , - The first meeting of the third ft««~' - under the Government w — " — «/**rd annuation IN'- *•' -.^uiway Super- • dnr. - . ..jiM'AGt, 1902, was held to.~j. There were present: Hon. Hall- , Jones (Minister for - Railways) in the chair, the Solicitor-General, Public,^ Trustee, the General Manager for Railways, Messrs A. Graham (Timaru) and R..M. Isaacs (Wellington) representing the fir-st division; W. Pepper, M. Thomas, J- Dawson, representing the Second division Board dealt with 14 oases- of retired 611 * and Passed allowances in connection therewith totalling £878 per year. Refa^ ds of contributions amounting to £408 wC 6 made with respect to 54 persons' whd . bad been contributors to the fund. Att^aK* lowance of £18 per year was made to* an engine-driver's widow and £131 a year to a posthumous . child of a stationmaster, Ii '-is understood thai the income of the fund last year was £5160 and that the payments made from the fund amounted to £3500.