SUPERANNUATION.
! CLAIMS OF UNIVERSITY PROj FESSORS. I (Fhom Our Own CoRBEsroNDENT.) WELLINGTON, October 20. This afternoon Mr C. A. C. Hardy introduca'l to the Minister of Kducatum a deputation which urged the necessity of providing some scheme of superannuation for piofessors of \.\rs New Zealand Uni ver.-ity. < Mr G. W. Rne.sell said the position of the professors vas a very hard one. as they were debarred from* coming undor the teachers' superannuation scheni:?. lie in^tanceJ the case of Profe'-sor Coo!: j who. though he had doiie splendid %voik j in connect io.i vith the founding of the university system of New ZF.-ilanrl, liad, I in his old ago, to retire without a pension. There were 33 professors in N»',v Zealand, and if they contributed £1650 I a yi'»r and the Government £375 a y*. r | a satisfactory scheme could be established. j Messrs E. J. (J. Steveiv% (Jraliam, James Allen, and P. Heaton Rhodes supported the proposal. Mr Baum« sa.id that some of the Au»-!<-iind and, he undei>tood. some of the W :llingtoa pioff-.sci's objected to a:n scheme that would be> compuKory. lie would like to see a FatL-sfactory scheme evolved, but he woukl not like any greater financial burden cast upon the prf*snt teachers' superjinnuation scheme, which, as they all knew, was already unfinancial. j There was already a big deficit, which j would have to be made up by the Government. Mr Fowlds, in reply, said the professors would no doubt have been ircluded in the teachers' scheme had it not been fov the division among the professors themselves. If pprnnssion were now given for the pio-fet-sors <o come in, only those old men who were about to retire would join, ar.d after paying one contribution "they would j Income eligible for their pension. That would be an impossible position for the Government. He had ijeen the scheme submitted by Canterbury College, r.i.d had j
asked Mr Hogben to get exact data to test ths proposals. Personally he was anxious to see some provision made so that profes-ors would not be kept on till they were in their dotage. If tiia pvo-fe-aors generally wire inclined to fall in wilh tiie scheme, and the cost would not be greater than was suggested, he would bo inclined to favour the scheme.
SUPERANNUATION.
Otago Witness, Issue 2902, 27 October 1909, Page 17
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