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Rapid turnover of staff in the manual grades is a consistent source of complaint by local authority officials. All the same, loyalty too frequently goes unrewarded and even unobserved. Thus I was interested to see that Wilmslow (Cheshire) UDC had not only set up a long-service award scheme for its employees, but that the first presentation was performed with due ceremony and public notice. When W. P. Rigby, whose record includes seven years in the highways department and 23 years in the public health department, received a transistor radio. UDC Chairman ClIr.'Peter. Dronsfield took a look at what this had meant to local people. A little mental arithmetic showed that apart from other things Mr. Rigby had emptied something in the region of 700,000 dustbins in the course of his time in the cleansing section.