CIVIL SERVANTS' PENSIONS
ALTERED SYSTEM DESIRABLE.
(By Telegraph. Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day.
Speaking at a presentation made to him yesterday on Ins retirement from the post office r-taff, Mr H. A. Huggins said that one thing thai kept the public service officers from . retiring was the matter of pensions. There were adequate pensions for men. but with widows the case was different. Men could go out with a pension of £3OO to £4OO a year, while all a widow would get was £lB per annum. Mi Huggins said he had devised a scheme that would remedy this condition of affairs, but the years had passed and the Government always said that it had too much else to attend to. He thought a scheme that would confer such benefits on widows should be taken up by someone and .carried into effect. It was often said that public servants were being handsomely pensioned off by the Government, but the fact was that the Government contributed only one-fifth of the superannuation fund income, which totalled £48,000, and to say it was handsomely pensioning civil servants was a gross perversion of the facts.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1426, 13 November 1923, Page 5
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