Papuan Superannuation
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From Our Own Correspondent
Port Moresby, Oct. 1.
THE position of the Papuan Public Service Superannuation Fund on December 31, 1938, was as follows: Pensions paid to ex-officers, 1938 £12,000 Officers’ contributions, 1938 .. .. £3,413 Interest on investments £1,445 Subsidy from Papuan Government from Revenue £7,193 Thirty-nine officers received superan nuation allowances, and 138 contributed to the fund during the year, 6 additional officers retired; and, owing to death, the number of those drawing pensions was reduced by 4. The Board’s investments total £38 5 390.
Sister M. R. Addis, who has been a member of the nursing staff of the Col onial War Memorial Hospital, Suva, Fiji, for eight years, resigned in September to be married.
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. McCarthy, of Kokopo, New Guinea, were in Melbourne In September spending leave. Mr.
McCarthy has been a member of the N.G. District Services staff since 1927.