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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 390, 13 December 1946, Page 22

HIS MAJESTY'S COLONIAL SERVICE There are vacancies for Civil Engineers in the Public Works Department, Malaya. 2. Qualifications entitling applicants to con- sideration are Corporate Membership of the Institution of Civil Engineers of Great Britain or Degrees or Diplomas recognised by that body 4s granting exemption from Sections A and B of its examination. Applicants, prefer- ably between 25 and 30 years of age, should have had experience of the construction and maintenance of roads, buildings and bridges, or of aerodromes or of urban water supply schemes. 3 . Appointments, which will be subject to a medical certificate of fitness for tropical service, will be on probation for a period of three years with the prospect of emplace- ment on the pensionable establishment at the end of this period: Salary is at the rate of 400 dollars a month; rising by annual incre- ments of 25 dollars a month to 800 dollars a month: Starting salary will depend on age, civil experience; and length of approved war service: 4. Free quarters are not provided, but Government quarters partly furnished are usually available at low rates. Free passages for the officer, his wife, and children under the age of ten vears, are granted on first ap- pointment and on leave. Home leave on full pay iS normally granted after 3 to 4 years of service at the rate of 4 days for each month of service: 6. Allowances in respect of children are payable at the rate of 70 dollars & month for the first child and 50 dollars & month for the second child until completion of the 18th year of age, and outfit allowance equiva lent to �60 sterling is payable on first appointment: 6. For the purpose of exchange with sterling one Malayan dollar equals 2/4. 7 . Applicants would be required to serve anywhere within the Malayan Union, Singa: pore, or Brunei: 8. Those interested should write to the Colonial Office Representative; Office of the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, P.O Box 992, Wellington, stating age and professional qualifications and giving date when those qualifications were obtained: