Unemployment
Sir, —So, after being denied opportunities for any choice of career by the depression, losing six years of productive life defending New Zealand from enemy invaders, paying off their mortgages and trying to give their children a better chance than they had themselves, the 60-year-olds are to be thrown on the scrap heap before they have had the opportunity to add a little jam to the bread and butter provided by the age benefit. If the younger generation
would get down to some real hard work from primary school to executive level instead of taking time off on the slightest pretext in the name of sport, perhaps there would not be any unemployment. If men like Churchill had been shelved at 60 there would not even have been a New Zealand.—Yours, etc., NO SHELF FOR GRANDPA. January 21, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31583, 22 January 1968, Page 10
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