LETTERS SENT TO PUPILS
WORK FOR STATE DEPARTMENTS VIEW OF COUNCIL OF MANUFACTURERS A complaint about Government departments writing to successful examination students offering them employ- | ment was further discussed by the council of the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association last evening. The meeting had before it a letter sent to the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser) complaining that such letters gave Government departments an unfair advantage, to the detriment of commercial and industrial, interests. Also before the meeting was a reply to the complaint from the office of the Public Service Commissioner, which said that in the circumstances the Commissioner was unable to agree that the procedure undermined the policy of the Education Department, and that there was any unfairness in the procedure adopted, “It is clear from present figures that the public service is not receiving more than its fair share of those leaving school,” added the letter, which also said that the offer of an appointment was only on the understanding that the boy or girl concerned was ready to leave school. Mr D. S. Dott, following up the complaint, said he knew of one case where a girl had received three specific offers of jobs from Government departments. She had been offered, amongst other things, a job as a denta] clinic assistant (earning up to £5 a week after two years) and a job as sole teacher at a country school—although she had not been to a teachers’ training college. Other members said it was necessary to be careful. The lists of successful candidates in examinations might be available to everyone, and. moreover. why should not the Public Service Commissioner write to those who sat the Public Service examination —his own examination?
Mr A. M. Hollander supported the protest. The present practice, he claimed, discriminated in favour of the Government as an .employer. It was agreed that the matter could be left to the delegates to the New Zealand conference.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24906, 20 June 1946, Page 6
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