NERVE-RACKING JOB

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 247, 19 October 1939, Page 5

NERVE-RACKING JOB

THE TAX INSPECTOR.

FIRST WOMAN APPOINTEE.

TO TAKE CHARGE OF PORTSMOUTH. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, August 26. England is to have its first woman tax inspector. She is Miss M. Rogers, and she is to take charge of a Portsmouth district.

Miss Rogers had to wait five years before becoming a fully-fledged inspector, and was at the end of last year the first woman to be promoted to the higher grade.

Xo other Department has such a severe probationary test as Somerset House. Courage is one of the qualities required, and Miss Rogers had to pass two "nightmare" tests in income tax and. land tax law. It is considered the most nerve-racking job in the whole Civil Service.

Miss Rogers will be expected to hold her own against counsel or solicitor in appeal cases. She must also be well versed, in general law. Contracts and torts is an examination subject and here are questions which Miss Rogers had. to answer:— A and B are neighbours. A branch from A's apple tree projects over the boundary. An apple falls from the branch on to B's land. Advise A as to his rights.

Consider the possibility of a successful action where B inserts in a newspaper the false statement that A. a married man, is engaged to be married to an actress.

Consider the liability of A, aged 20, where he enters into an engagement to| many X.