THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 113, 12 May 1917, Page 9

THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

EOPEKANNTTATIOISr. AHjOWANCES. CBy Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The quarterly meeting of the Public Service Superannuation Board granted tanual allowances totalling £4,287, [ranted to 23 contributors retired. Unler section 35 six retired men medically Bfit were granted allowances aggregatfag £389. Sixteen widows were granted ttatufcory allowances totalling £522. A policeman retired medically unfit, as the result of injuries received in the execution of duty, was granted an additional iflowance. In consequence of retireBents under section 35, accrued compensation, amounting to £10,376 beame a liability of the superannuation hmd. The amount at credit of the bud on April 30th was £956,226, an increase of £126,732 on the year. METHODS OF APPOINTMENT. regulations connected with tppointments to the Public Service are published in this week's " Gazette." "ApNntoients," says the new rule, " will be made according to the order of merit In the list of applicants who have passed file Entrance Examination. Provided Bat if any person is available and otherwise eligible who has at any time passed mc Civil Service Senior Examination, or »c examination hereinafter called the Senior Examination or the MatriculaDon Examination of the New Zealand University, although in any of these faaes he may not have passed the Enhance Examination, he shall take preft c ??V >ver candidates who have passed Be Entrance Examination only. Every roucant for examination shall state ■ ■Mβ appUeation whether he is willing WMcept appointment—(a) in any part Zealand in wiiich a may **£, or only in come pao-tioular part tftt e V ealand ; '*>) "i an.v Department w Mc Public Service in w&ich a vacancy occur, or onJy jn g(mje particular or Departments."