‘Put pensioners in gas chamber’

THE EDITOR: I shall be grateful if you can insert in your esteemed paper this article on the plight of Government pensioners. With the present cost of living which has increased to an alarming height and the increase in all our utilities, life has become burdensome.

When one considers that our Parliamentarians have increased their pay a hundred fold, the chairmen of the utilities have all been given an increase, some as high as $7,000 a month, and the Prime Minister says there is nothing wrong with such an increase. And yet government pensioners who rendered yeoman service are begging, doing menial jobs to eke out an existence. I retired in 1971 as principal of one of the largest schools with an enrolment of 1,000. My pension today is $1,600 almost the same as ordinary old age pensioners. What a disgrace, dishonour and hardship after my service as a pioneer in education? My advice to the caring and benevolent government is to use the gestapo method of Hitler, put frustrated pensioners in the gas chamber and wipe them out; it would at least be kinder than to have them suffer in their old age.

SAMUEL DOODNATH
ex-School Principal
Penal