Retirement Age
Sir, —I read with amazement the policy advocated by Mr R. H. Parker, retiring treasurer of the Auckland Education Board, and satirised by “Whim Wham” in Saturday’s issue. To insist that a man must retire and stagnate on a pension because he has reached a certain age, or, worse still, because he has been a certain number of years in one form of employment, regard* less of the fact that he may be at the peak of his efficiency, and merely so as to make room more quickly for those coming up the ladder behind him, is surely national suicide in one of its simplest forms. It is perhaps relevant that the Leader of the Opposition has just celebrated his eightieth birthday.— Yours, etc., SCRAP HEAP. February 12, 1962.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29747, 14 February 1962, Page 3
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