I BUY the Evening News to read just one page - the matched, hatched and dispatched one, solely to make sure my name isn't on the dispatched column.

At my time of life, one cannot be too careful!

It is therefore very reassuring to find generally an absence of ex-Archdale names.

So keep going chaps, and look after yourselves, because there couldn't be many of us left - or could there?

JOHN EVANS,

Late (always) of the Jig Boring Section,

Kempsey.