PROVINCIAL.
Wellington, August 25. Ladies will be admitted into the Telegraph Department under the following conditions : — Candidates will require to be conversant with the elementary branches of an ordinary English education. They will be examined in orthography and writing from dictation, English grammar, composition, and the first four rules of of arithmetic. A good legible hand is also indispensable. They will enter the service on probation, and 1 will not have their appointments confirmed unless after a reasonable period of tuition they prove themselves on examination good operators. The rate of pay will be as follows: — At the date of entry, £60 per annum j at the expiration of six months (if favorably reported on), £70 per annum ; after twelve months* service (if reported competent as operators), £75 per annum, witn an annual increase of £5 up to £100, which will be the maximum. Dunedin, August 26. The National Insurance Company have increased their capital to £1,000,000. 60,000 shares are reserved ior the North Island, and 40,000 for Otagoand Southerland.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 205, 26 August 1873, Page 2
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170PROVINCIAL. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 205, 26 August 1873, Page 2
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