The Archive · 1921

Superannuation in the Council

Aug. 19.

Wira the publication of the second report of.the Municipal Salaries Conimission, on the subject of retirement and superannuation, the task of adjusting the remuneration of the municipal employees lasting for well over a year has been brought to It was, obviously, not an y problem and as a result of holding the balance evenly between the ratepayers and their employees, the services of the latter are to cost the former more.

It was that fact, coupled with the manner in which the extra contemplated expenditure was to be financed which, earned for the first report a very mixed reception, although, as matters eventually turned out, the ratep when they came to realize ex ly who the Commission were really assisting, showed, by their lack of opposition to the Council's tions (modified somewhat) into force, no real lack of sympathy with the low salaried official.

Inasmuch as this second report recommends no, drastic changes in the regulation of the Superannuation Fund,' it is possible

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