THE CIVIL SERVICE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1686, 28 February 1913, Page 6

THE CIVIL SERVICE.

« ■ USE OF MECHANICAL OFFICE APPLIANCES, - It is notified in tho current Gazette that applications, to be mado on printed forms obtainnblo from thp Secretary to tho Public Service Commissioner, will bo received from femalo officers of the Public Service who are desirous of being taught the use of adding machines, listing machines, and other mechanical offico appliances.- Applicants must be between tho ages of eighteen and thirty, and must be good writers, and able to manipulate figures with accuracy and neatness. "Those who pass tho prescribed examination will be attached to any department of tho Public Service for duty as vacancies arise, whenever they can be spared from their ordinary duties. Upon taking iip the duty of machinist they will be classified in Grade II (General Division). With this classification they will bo entitled to 0110 year's seniority and an additional increment, of <£10 per. annum until a mnximum salary of <£130 per annum has been reached.. .. There will also be a classification for exceptionally skilled operators capable of passing a further examination to be'prescribed, who will be placed in Grade I (General Division), with salaries ranging from .£l4O to -Cl6O per annum, and eventually there may be a number of operators selected from that grade to act as "Machinists in Charge," with salaries from ~£l7O-to',£2oo. An applicant's failure to pass tho prescribed examination, it is stated, will not necessarily, affect the continuity of her employment in the Public Service. No appointment to tho grade of machinist shall bo made of any. who fail in tho examination, end, in the ease of those who pass, no increment will be'paid until they' have taken up duty in that mule. ■ Opportunity will ho afforded applicants of learning tho uses of the vatious machines at times outside of their ordinary hours.