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for such is issued by the Government. ] This enables the Government to re-- tain the services of officials in special cases. A civil servant to be entitled to a full superannuation allowance must be ten continuous years in the service. Temporary employees Aare not to be included. _ When retire--} .! ment after the ten years' service i8 Inecessary. due either to ill--health, in--| '! firmity or the abolition of a depart--| ment, superannuation will be allowed : to a civil servant who has not reach--! ed the age limit. This clause will include all but those who have been forced out through ill--behavior. :n case of death after ten years' lse vice the Government may pay to 'the personal representative of -- the |party or to his family a lump sum not exceeding his average yearly salary ; for the preceding three years, or the amount he has paid into a fund with 4 per cent. interest, whichever may happen to be the larger _ amount. Where death occurs within ten years of service the amount contributed is' to be paid with interest at 4 per cent. | A Superannuation Fund. | | __The bill provides for the vstablish-| |ment of a superannuation fund. This | Iwill be provided by deducting an' | amount equal to 3 per cent. on all |yearly salaries over $800, and whem' 'the salary does not exceed $300 and at | idate of passing the act the servant lis over fifty--five years of age, this !payment may be made, otherwise the party will not be entitled to super-- 'annuation under the act. ' The amount of superannuation will :depend'upon the salary and length of service. It will be computed on the basis of one--fiftieth of the average salary for the final three years of ser-- vice multiplied by the number of years of service. The superannuation pay-- 'ments are not to extend beyond _ a period of thirty years. This will work | 'out so that a civil servant having a | 'salary of $1,000 a year and working | for thirty years will have a retiring al-- lowance of $600. | In a case where an appointment was | made after January 1, 1908, and thel party was entitled to superannuation | w and retires, the Government may pay i a lump sum by way of gratuity in-- | stead of an annual allowance, but the j | amount is not to exceed the average isalary for the last three years of ser-- 'vice. ' | Where a retired servant receiving j lan allowance dies before he gets a | sum equal to the average salary dur-- \ ing his last three years of service the f(}overnment may make up the am-- |ount out of the fund. | l Now that the question is before th9| people suggestions will be invited| } with regard to the working of similar; schemes elsewhere. | The other business of the House| vesterday consisted mainly in passing a number of third readings, with the result that over forty bills are now awaiting the sanction of the Tieuten-- ant--Governor to become law. Bill to Aid Methodist Transfers, Mr. Rowell secured the first read-- ing of a bill to give trustees of Metho-- ldist churches the power of transfer-- ring church property to represen-- !:.atives of other religious bodies. This | is an enabling bill made necessary \by the recent amendments to the 'charter of the incorporated Methodist 'Church. Mr. Rowell explained that the move towards Church union and the co--operation which is taking place between religious denominations in outlying districts made the legislation necessary, as under the present Pro-- vincial law trustees cannot trans-- fer real estate to other bodies. Mr. Hearst's bill to prevent the wasting of natural gas went through the comimttee stage. The Minister explained to Mr. Marshall (Monck) that a local inspector familiar with the conditions in each locality would have the enforcing of the _ law which was designed to get after care. less men. :