“OUT AT SIXTY-FIVE.”

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 9 April 1926, Page 13

“OUT AT SIXTY-FIVE.”

To'tile Editor of the “Timaru Herald:” ! Sir, —In vour issue of April 1 wo ! read that the Cabinet of New South ! Wales lias decided strictly to enforce ] the retirement of all civil servants j reaching: the ago of sixty-five. Though j having long passed that ripe age, and I have drawn the old ago pension lo>sixteen years, I cannot squeeze enough out. of it .to get harness strong enough to l control tlio ocean’s mighty power ou a big scale. Still, six days a. week £ can see results in the very new future that'will justify _tho outlay of a big sum of money wtlTiWiic certainty of returning good interest on the money spent. Sutler me to add, I do know, beyond a doubt, having spent over three decades on tuls work, that in tiie energy going to waste along the Eastern Mole or Evans Extension, whichever one likes to call it, South Canterbury is losing a big sum yearly by neglecting it. Tokapo’s energy can bo brought to Timaru and it would bo a blessing to the town. There is room for both schemes, as the ocean holds constituents not hold by fresh water, and these can be extracted from it, and would benefit this Dominion by saving cash, and by employing labour.— I am, etc., MARK SAUNDERS.