RAILWAY SERVANTS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 20 January 1912, Page 8

RAILWAY SERVANTS.

THE SUPERANNUATION SCHEME

BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION,

CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 19

11l the statement regarding the effect of the increase in wages on railway superannuation, distributed to the morning papers by the.Press Association, certain opinions were wrongly attributed to Mr R. Hampton. These opinions were those of another railway servant interviewed the same day as Mr Hampton. Mr Hampton says he agrees with the position stated by the Department, and adds that the men would feel more secure, however, if the marriage allowance were embodied in the Classification Act. The allowance could be reduced or revoked altogether by Cabinet, and a case might arise in which a man who had been paying into the fund over a series of years on the basis of 9s a day would be superannuated on a basis of the statutory pay of 7s per day. Mr Hampton' said that no complaint lay against the Department or the Board for administering the law as it existed, but the Amalgamated Society hoped to persuade the Government to embody the marriage allowance in the classification schedule.