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Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23080, 24 July 1940, Page 8

More help is still needed from employers willing to give positions to crippled children, especially boys, according to a report, from Miss •C. E. Robinson, girls’ vocational guidance officer for the Christchurch Youth Centre. A number of employers had responded to an earlier appeal,- she said, and several girls and boys had been found employment.

A tribute to the Public Service on the ready adaptability of its members to the new conditions created by the war, is paid by the Public Service Commissioner, Mr T. Mark, in his annual report, which has been laid before the House of Representatives. The new and sometimes strange work and greatly expanded services suddenly called into being by the war might have caused chaos, he said/ but all needs had been met without interfering with the efficiency of the existing services. “If it ever needed to be demonstrated, it has now been done most convincingly, that the well-trained public seryantis most adaptable within the sphere and is much more usefdT; than thexhastily recruited expert from outside the PufalicSeryice,” lie said. ■ -■