COMMISIONERS' LATEST.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 229, 6 March 1915, Page 6

COMMISIONERS' LATEST.

TKI.I INU ITlli.lC SERVANT'S MOW to white. ! "Johnny, point your -pen to your' shoulder, and doll t scratch!-' This is the latest order in ellect from the I'll!) lie Service Commissioners to the li,(K)0 civil servants in this country. And the I'ulilie Service is roaring with laughter, according to the Xew Zealand Times. In the T'ublic. Service Oll'n-i.il Circular of March Ist there an: a number of funny injunctions from the three Commissioners, but the hinniest of them e!i is under the heading; ot' Cemrai. \otices—Handwriting of Ollirers. Here it is word for word: The attention of all ollieers is directed to the necessity lor legible handwriting. To ensure thi.--, the subjoined rules should lie (ib:-ewe 1: - - 1. Ea.-h letter and each ligu-o should li,. completely and dearly formed. so that one letter or ligure, taken apart.

cannot he mistaken for another. The slope from the vertical he even and not exceed ol) decrees. "2. The characters should he of moleiate ami even size. The projection of ; apitals and loinr letters above or hidow tlse line should -Uot he more than one and a-lialf times the length of the short letters. Monri-dies and j upi vdetH s'.ivkes should he avoide 1.

There sh'oul.l be moderale and even s]iai'es between the letters In a

word, and also between the words in a. sentence. The letters in a word > 'n.n'i! be mii'ed by strokes: tli«> words in a sentence should be uneonla'vte! bv strol e-.

The writii.ii' should be ; n straight lines, running -jiaralh 1 v.iih the top of the page. The intervals between the l'ne: should lie even and suhicient to prevent the intersivtion of loop; and tails.

yifrollins r.fiiccrs are reipu'sied to keep a close supervision over their ollieers in this matter. ' Tile next circular is eMrected to contain advice from the f'miiniisioners to their ch'ldren ill the -1 vv i: e regarding the necessity of sh : ;:;:"- 1 oots evi-rv morning", and asking lnoll-er for a clean collar every day.