POLICE chief George Le Page expects retirement to be a strange experience after 43 years in the force.

COMMERCE and Employment minister Carla McNulty Bauer has backed proposals from Social Security to raise the retirement age, which will be debated in the States this week.

NOT so many years ago, the chief question about retirement was how early an individual intended stopping work. Now, that same question is how long someone has to struggle on in order to fund a realistic pension.

THE Salvation Army bade a fond farewell to its community centre manager yesterday. Trevor Savident retired from the Clifton branch after 13 years.

TECHNOLOGY has changed the banking world Roger Weston has been in the middle of for the past 39 years.

THIRTY-FIVE years of experience were succeeded by 34 years at a Royal Bank of Canada retirement reception.