POLICE AND PUBLIC SUPERANNUATION.

Otago Witness, Issue 2905, 17 November 1909, Page 30

POLICE AND PUBLIC SUPERANNUATION.

The proposal that the Police Provident Fund should be merged into jthe Public* Service Fund upon the members of the police service joining , it has naturally created much dissatisfaction. To th« adoption of suoh a course strong objection wa» raised some little time back, when tho option was given the members of the police* service of joining the Public Service Fund, and the statement that this would now be •nforced by legislation revives the dis<* satisfaction formerly existing. The fact that members of the Police Force who had contributed large amounts* to the Provident Fund should have sucft money merged into a common fund, to 'be participated in with equal advantage bjf members of the public service who hay» been in office an incomparably shorter period, and who have contributed practically nothing, is regarded as distinctly unjust. As to how the members of the police service are to fare under the new proposals in connection with the superannuation of the public employees of the Dominion is not wholly clear, and until the-

Amended Superannuation Act makes its appearance there can be nothing more than surmise as to how it is to operate. Inquiry among several of the employees in the public service in Dunedin with a view to ascertaining the manner in which the new superannuation proposals were being received met with no result. Even those who had made s close stud; of the subject of superannuation were unable to make anything of the abbreviated telegraphed Statement, and declin«d to say anything until they had seen the full text of the proposals.