Plans for busy retirement

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33189, 31 March 1973, Page 6

Plans for busy retirement

When Mrs N. Woodgate returns to her home in London and her retirement from the British Overseas Airways Corporation, she has no intention of “settling down and doing nothing.”

"I've been working for most of my life so 1 just [couldn’t settle down and do i nothing at all." she said in [Christchurch yesterday. “If I don't find another job there are service and welfare [groups that I could work for.” Mrs Woodgate has recently ! retired after 25 years with i 8.0.A.C. and has been visitring her sister. Mrs A. P. Millthorpe. in Christchurch. Her job with the airline in the last, few years consisted of working with the joint pensions scheme of 8.0.A.C. and British European Airways. “During this time I was working in property investment, investing money that people contribute to the penisions scheme. This also included insuring of property and welfare work and personnel work connected with pension." Mrs Woodgate joined 8.0.A.C. as a clerk. Before that, during the war years, she worked with the Admiralty in North-west England in the Women’s Technical Service Register, inspecting

electrical equipment that was used on ships or in ports. She has also travelled a great deal and on this trip, when she leaves New Zealand today, will visit Ceylon for the Buddhist Vesak festivals, staying with a Singhalese family.