APPOINTMENTS TO PUBLIC SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 204, 17 May 1918, Page 6

APPOINTMENTS TO PUBLIC SERVICE

AN AMENDING REGULATION. The Public Service Commissioner has gazetted the following emending regulations:— (a.) Appointments to the professional division other than on promotion from the clerical or general divisions shall in the first place be to the first subdivision , of Class i' in the- second schedule to the j 6aid Act. | (b.) Appointments to the clerical : division may in the first place be to such subdivision of Class VIII in the third schedule of the said Act as the Commissioner may determine: Provided | that holders of university d'.grees, or of approved certificates from any university college that the candidate has attained special knowledge in any scientific subject, may be admitted in such subdivision of Classes F or E, or VIII or VII, as tho Commissioner thinks fit, subject to the provisions of Section 40 of the said Act. And provided further that a member of tho military branch of the Defence' Forces who has passed the entrance or senior examination may be transferred to the civil branch of that Department, anil may be admitted in such class or subdivision as the Commissioner think fit. No one, except ho is an honourably discharged munber of the forces as defined in the War Pensions Act, 1915, and any amendment of that Act, shall be appointed to the clerical division unless liis age at the time of appointment ■is not less than fifteen nor more than twenty-five years, and no one shall be appointed to the professional division unless his tge is not less than seventeen • years at the time of appointment.