THE MAN IN BLUE.
When does a cease; tp be efficient? Is he as good ai.sijriy--five as he was at fifty ? These questions are, just now 'being; seriously, discussed •' ittj -'New Zealand, for it is r reported that the. Government in- : tends retiring all'officers *hp have. reached the- age oir -.sixty.-- v3Sßjst : .; people will conclude'that the an-: swers to the. questions will depend' upon circumstances. If a policeman is sixty years of age,, and is still doing .street duty, he: should most certainly be retired, for not only is he physically unfit, but if he had been worth his salt he v should have occupied > a better*position. If, hft-rhas.' risen in the ranks,, as he should; Hse,t and has become su Sergeant or amlh»~ spector, he is quite as good .at sixty, perhaps a good deal better, than he was at forty. It is all very well to encourage young men;: to the better positions; but the country cannot afford to lose its experienced officers. Nor can it pay the price of retiring men decently at 'sixty, ■■-- ■■- /■:;' ■•" .' ' ',: : '-•■•'"'••■*'/
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10147, 25 January 1911, Page 4
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177THE MAN IN BLUE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10147, 25 January 1911, Page 4
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