PUBLIC SERVICE CADETS

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26796, 30 July 1952, Page 3

PUBLIC SERVICE CADETS

INDUCTION COURSE HELD LECTURES”BY SENIOR OFFICERS To give cadets a better understanding of the wider aspects of the Public Service and its traditions, an induction course for 60 cadets who were apCointed to the service this year is now eing held in Christchurch. The first course was held last week, and the second will conclude on Friday. Cadets came from 23 Government departments.

The courses were inaugurated by the Public Service Commission in 1948, and have been so successful that they have now become part of the commission’s staff training programme. The director of the present course is the commission’s representative in Christchurch (Mr E. J. Ironside), assisted by Mr A. E. Hinton, who is assistant inspector attached to the commission’s office in Christchurch.' Lectures have been given to cadets by senior public servants on various subjects, including the development of the Public Service, code of conduct, the public servant and the community, public relations, clerical tasks and a woman’s view df the service. Two instructional films have been shown, and most of the cadets have given short talks on their own jobs or the work of the departments to which they are attached. An open forum and quiz session were also included on the programme.

Lectures were given by'the following:— The Public Service Commission’s representative (Mr E. J. Ironside), senior estates and administration officer in the Public Trust Office (Mr J. B. Callaghan), the station manager of 3YA (Mr J. F. Skedden), the district manager of the Tourist and Publicity Department (Mr W. A. Pickford), the district chief clerk of the Ministry of Works (Mr J. A. Petre), the programme organiser of Station 3ZB (Miss G. W. Green), the assistant inspector of the Public Service Commission (Mr A. E. Hinton), the chairman of the Canterbury section of *J) e P'ffilio Service Association (Mr A. C. Todd).