“TOO OLD AT 60.”
(The Editor.)
Sir, —I have been told that at an address given on Thursday night by Mr J. Robertson, M.P., my name was mentioned in a question asked regarding the Social Security scheme and the borough staff, and, the inference was that I intended to advocate the dismissal of all the Borough workers at the age of sixty years. Will someone correct me if I have been wrongly informed? In tonight's "Times-Age" I notice a letter from the pen of Mr N. J. Bennington on the subject. The same inference is there. May I state that I have never at any council meeting said that I was in favour of retiring the men on their reaching sixty years of age. I merely said that in view of the Social Security Scheme coming into force, I would bring forward at a special meeting of the council the question of reorganising the Borough staff. As the meeting does not take place until late in the month, I think it would be wiser to await the result of the meeting before picking to pieces any one phrase of the question. Thanking you for the space for this letter.—l am, etc., H. E. GARDNER, Masterton. March 31, 1939.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1939, Page 6
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