ECONOMY IN THE CIVIL SERVICE
[To the Editor of the SpEcre.ron.] Sm,—The wonder of Sir Ahneric FitzRoy that "the Govern- ment do not have recourse to the simple expedient of abro- gating for a few years the rule requiring Civil Servants to retire at 65" would no doubt be greater were he aware that the retention of Civil Servants till they reach the age of sixty-five is the exception rather than the rule. In some Government Departments every officer, however efficient, is compulsorily retired at the age of sixty ; in others the age is fixed at sixty-two or sixty-three ; in only a few are all officers, whether efficient or otherwise, allowed to remain until sixty-five. The retirement on pension of healthy and competent officers at the earliest age allowable under the Superannuation Act of 1859 is insisted on with the sole object of quickening the flow of promotion, and in disregard alike of the efficiency of the Service and the cost to the State.,
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