Seminar On Preparing For Retirement

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30028, 12 January 1963, Page 10

Seminar On Preparing For Retirement

To ventilate, consider and perhaps to produce solutions to the probtaie cd rettreiMnt, a group cd Ouislrtwiith citizens is initiating a day cd lectures and dteeuMrian on toe question cd preparing tor old age.

The Adult Education Department cd the University of Canterbury will arrange toe seminar, probably for too end of next month er early in Manto.

The initiators inchided two doctors, Dr. F. S. Airey and Dr. W. Roy Hohnea. They hope that representatives of all walks of life will support the semirar and contribute to

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deal with the material side of retirement: the questions of pensions. • aipsnssa, saving. It could deal with facing the facts of physical and mental decline. And it could be concerned with toe spiritual side, the development of Lew inclinations, interest! and powers*

The preparation for retirement must involve the deployment of finances, the planning of a house and its equipment—especially for the time when the children have left it—the nature of holidays and the relief of potential loneliness and loss of status through stopping work.

To consider such issues he hopes that anyone interested wiU approach the Adult Education Department next month. “No-one will be excluded.” he said. “We want the trades unions to be represented, the Senior Citizens* Association, the Aged People's Welfare Council, farmers, the

manufacturers, Government officials, the churches—anyone concerned with the preparation tor compulsory retirement and the use of leisure.

“We have our conceptions of the problems, but we are prepared to have our preconceptions altered,” said "r. Airey. “We want people withopinions. People should emerge who have not been heard of before."

After the views of toe seminar have emerged toe group would like to aae toe results published for dissemination to a wider public.

Dr. Airey listed some of the people and organisations already interested in the seminar toe president of the National Council of Women (Mrs W. Grant), toe Lions* . Club, the Rev. W. E. Talking- > ham, ot the Methodist Central > Mission. Mr A. A. Anderson. I manager of the Christchurch i foundry, Mr C. H. Cook, com- > mercial broadcasting manager I tn Christchurch. Mr G. S. I Troup, a university lecturer. : and Mias C. Robinson of the Sheltered Workshop Association.