27 SEPTEMBER 1957, Page 16

'AXED'

SIR,-1 should like to assure Mr. St. John that have indeed heard of the 'Over Forty-Fives Association. Would he be so good as to tell us, for the sake of interest, how many ex-officers his association has been successful in placing, and with what sort of salaries?

While I have no doubt he is right in saying that individuals should submit themselves to commercial discipline, I should be very interested to know what are the prospects for those who do so.

For myself, I was well under forty-five when I retired; so will very many of those retiring now be; and so (unless my arithmetic has let me down again) was the Member of the Council of the 'Over FortY- Fives' Association to whom Mr. St. John refers.— Yours faithfully, N. S. HOLMES