TRAINED MEN
IMPORTANT VIEWPOINT,
WTHWJWf (fiS Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, December 18
When are we going to recognise that the highest trained men should he able to study abroad and return to New Zealand to properly paid positions in the civil service, asked Canon Archdall at Kings College prize giving. The cream of the country is sit mmed and! lamentably few of the travelling and Rhodes scholars are able to return -f their native land and help in building up her life. A small country like this cannot afford such a loss of her best minds.
It is partly due to foolish restrictions on entry into the Civil Service which force a boy into it at an early age with a system of seniority dear to the bureaucratic mind. A similar mistake was made by many banks, insurance business and offices who say they must have boys at 16 or 17 and so discourage boys from staiyng at school long enough to be really educated. I do not wonder our economic problems are too much for us when .such a system prevails. It producers a mediocre level and is not likely to produce a leader.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1930, Page 5
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195TRAINED MEN Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1930, Page 5
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