^{page 33 note *} Persons appointed since 1895 are compelled to take out Endowment Assurance Policies maturing at age 60 in an approved Society for amounts approximating to one year's salary.

^{page 39 note *} When first we saw these Tables of contributions we began seriously to think. Why should the Committee select such a strange interval as two months for the periodic contributions? And why were the contributions so small? But when we came to the illustrations we discovered there were 24 bi-monthly contributions in a year! We trust our Australian cousins are not going to disfigure the English language with such a distortion as bi-monthly for half-monthly. We are glad to note that in the Report of the Actuarial Sub-Committee the interval is always described as half-monthly.—H. W. M.