No Pension For Public
p. 109 · Read in the full issue
Servant’S Widow
* FEW months ago, a high official of A the Administration in Papua lost his life j n an acc ident. He had had about 40 years’ service; and, if he had retired, he would have received an allow ance of £6OO per annum for the rest of his life. if his service had been in New Guinea, his widow would have received half that pension. Because his service was in Papua, she gets nothing, except the re fund to her Of whatever sum he had paid into the superannuation machinery. There was some suggestion that she might be given a compassionate allowance of £75 nr fine npr annum fihp has remained gT the Te?rito?v Tnd taken a fob The m tne 1 emiory, ana LdK.en a jup, ■ llie ° nl ? alte ™ atlv f ™ as to return to Aus tralia and apnly for the pension that is allowed t 0 wldows without re sources-50/per week, or something like that.
This is not a pretty picture for an age ing Papuan public servant to contemplate.
There should be some provision under which the widow of a man who dies in harness after a certain period of service, should receive a pension. As the regula tions now stand, they present an anomaly,