CIVIL SERVANTS AND THE LAND.
EARLY RETIREJIENT OF WOULD-BE SETTLERS. BT IEIJEGEAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COrTnIGHT. ' I Molbotime, December 27. • About 1400 mon in tho railway servico, who are entitled to retire on pensions at the ago of sixty, have started a movement ■ to; 60cure for those of their number who desiro to settle on tho land permission from tho Government to allow them to retire at fifty. ' ■ ■ Tho average pension at that. age would bo about £70 a year. They'argub that tho youngpr men could do their work, and effcct a saving to the State, whilo the Stato would be benefited by .their settling on tho land.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 80, 28 December 1907, Page 5
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106CIVIL SERVANTS AND THE LAND. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 80, 28 December 1907, Page 5
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