CORRESPONDENCE

Evening Star, Issue 24324, 13 October 1942, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE

<> AGE BENEFICIARIES AND WAR WORK. TO TUB BDITOII. Sir, —The amended regulations permitting ago beneficiaries to accept rear work if fit ami capable without endangering their future honclits is unlikely to bcnclit the war effort in Dunedin, whatever effect may lie felt in other centres, since the man power officer in Dnuedin is unable to offer any work at all to any but able-bodied men, not many of whom are likely to be found among the age beneficiaries. It seems hardly credible that, while inexperienced youths who should remain at school, together with women, are being recruited into industry to make good the shortage of more skilled labour, men of responsibility and mature judgment are not wanted unless they arc literally able to swing a pick or wield a shovel with the best, the depression outlook persisting' even to these days of national peril.—l am, ole.. Realism Wanted. October 12. fThe man power officer has advised that, although there is very little scope at the moment for elderly men in essential industry, there is every possibility that parttime work will be available in the near future.—Ed. E.S.]