MOVE ALONG AT THE TOP, THERE

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29744, 10 February 1962, Page 10

MOVE ALONG AT THE TOP, THERE

(By

WHIM WHAM]

Men tn senior position* «n«»uio retire when they reached retlnnf age. even if thev tell the> could still give years of useful service. Mi R H Parxer retiring treasure! of the Auckland Education Board said at a farewell function “The positions of honour and glory should be fairly distributee All of us when we reach a stage when we can retire should do so and make way for the promotion of others who are below us —News item Arriving at a Certain Age, The Senior Man must quit the Stage. In Mind and Body still robust? It makes no Odds, retire he must. For if he did not. he would rob His Next-in-Line who needs the Job, Who has been climbing all these Years (As Men must do in such Careers) Rung by Rung wiser if not sadder. Up Seniority’s great Ladder Room at the Top must be prepared; The Plums are Few and must be shared Brief Glory there awaits him too. Who claims Promotion as his Due: Though he excel in every Function He’ll be retired without Compunction: None sc experienced as he So bold so vigorous, mavbe. He’ll get his farewell Presentation, Fine Words jf Praise and Admrration That Presentation' one of those Deep easv Chairs tn which tc doze? A Fishing Rod’ with Which "to play The unimportant Years away? That Praise' for All he was and did? Only too happy to be rid Of the old So-and-So they are; He kept them back too long by far; His Dav of Power and Glory’s done And the whole Staff can move up One. Well Sir that’s how it is. that’s how Some Men’s best Years get wasted now; And. Sir. that’s why it is that’s why They fade like Phantoms followed by Much platitudinous Well-wishing, To spend their Second Boyhoods fishing!