FILLING OF VACANT POSTS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20622, 11 August 1932, Page 7

FILLING OF VACANT POSTS.

to rax editob or thb «mss. Sir, —I should like relate an serienee which seems to confir'» widely-popular belief that many «.rer- | -isements inviting applications for pub- • it or semi-public posts are simply impostures, in that the positions are virually filled bofora the advertisement

i appears. Recently I wrote two applications for two such positions from men hose character and qualifications were • rr w ach . a » d could not .be excelled. Both positions were in the serbodies, but both applicants stated when I had written thi application, "I will gend it in, but ] nave no hope of success. With bodiei i'ke these the successful applicants ar< t.m« ma r beforehand. In ordinary times I wonld not waste time applying at all. Is either of them got a posi- «. k"' v A one of w 'as asked tc submit his credentials even, so thai 16 perfectly obvious that, like kiss- '| Ug iu i se a l J P oln tments go bv favour m the latter case applications bv lettei were invited on a Saturday. The ap. rhcatmn 1 wrote would be delivered on Monday forenoon, as would also b« many applications from others. Now one might- imagine that the matter ol selection would take some time; that some of the applicants would have tc ': e '"fernewed; and they could not possibly be interviewed before Werlncs- °" Tl ' e . sch >y morning a letter was written to this particular applicant saying that the position had been filled' inat is a simple statement of fact' nnd it seems to me to indicate thnt a course is being pursued very unfair towards the applicants for such positions. I am sure there are hundreds or workers in Christchurch who will endorse these views and agree that the an bious business should be exposed lours, etc., ' ' . B.M. August oth, 1932. •