OUR CIVIL SERVICE.
NO CAREER FOR GRADUATES
(LOSER LINK WITH UNIVERSITY
Surprise at the fact that the Civil Service in New Zealand offered no career for University graduates was expressed to-day by Professor Segar at the capping ceremony.
"The Government can do much." he remarked, "but if the college is to serve the community as well as it can and ought to, we require not only the sympathy and interest.' but also the practical help of the people of the city and province."
In the English and Indian Civil Services, the requirements for the higher branches were so severe and the inducements that were offered ensured such keen competition that the most brilliant prradnates in honours of the English Universities underwent one or "two years of special preparation before entering for the examinations. It had seemed to him a weakness in our system that full opportunity was not taken by the Civil Service to recruit its ranks from the university colleges.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 112, 13 May 1926, Page 8
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