THE CIVIL SERVICE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 29 January 1909, Page 7

THE CIVIL SERVICE.

ENFORCEMENT OF RETIRING AGE.

fPEB, PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

WELLINGTON, January 29. Among the officers who will be affected by the enforcement of retiring age at 65 are: Messrs Humphreys (Sur-veyor-General), Barron (Lands Purchase), Hursthouse (Chief Engineer of Roads), Colonel Hume (Inspector of Prisons), Hickson (Commissioner of Stamps), Batham (Registrar General of Lands and Deeds), Glasgow (Secretary of Customs), and Wray (S.M., Timaru). Instructions have been given to heads of departments not to authorise advertisements or to obtain legal opinions from the Crown Law Department without the sanction of the Minister controlling the Department. The benefits of the Teachers' Superannuation Fund are to be extended to contributors who have served a certain length of time of not less than twenty to thirty years who become sick or mentally disabled, so as to be unfit for duty/ Similar reasons not specified in detail will also be given favorable consideration. A medical officer must certify to the state of health in all cases.