On Pensions
p. 58 · Read in the full issue
Cruel Burden Of Taxes
JU R. LEO. AUSTEN, a former IYI Resident Magistrate of the Papua Administration, has made the
following suggestion :
1 SUGGEST a petition be framed, from all retired Papuan Civil Servants now on superannuation, and sent to the Minister, asking that taxes on pensions of Papuan Civil Servants be computed separately from any other moneys a re tired officer may make in any one year.
Had the Japanese war not come, there would have been a reclassification of salaries, due to extra cost of living, anu so the pension would have been increased.
Again, the pensions of Papuan Civil Ser vants, unlike those of the Mandated Ter ritory, die with them, and their widows receive nothing, in some cases necessitat ing the widow applying for a widow s pension, which naturally comes out of revenue.
If the Minister cannot see his way clear to have the tax computed separately he will force many officers to S° and live outside Australia, when they should oe enloving a decent climate at the end of a long period of tropical service.
The death of Mr. A. H. Lee, a well known and highly respected citizen of Suva, Fiji, occurred on August 22. He was 70 years of age.