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Press, Volume C, Issue 29695, 13 December 1961, Page 28

VACANCIES—MAUS DEPARTMENT OF EXTER.N AL AFFAIRS DIPLOMATIC and CONSULAR SERVICE THE Department of External Affairs seeks candidates for appointment as diplomatic trainees. Normally a high Honours degree is a prerequisite for entry, but graduates at the bachelor’s level are invited to contact the Department with a view to a preliminary interview and discussion of prospects. The Department needs young men and women with the capacity eventually to assist in the formation of foreign policy, conduct international negotiations and represent New Zealand worthily overseas. High intellect and integrity are essential. Great importance is attached to the ability to analyse complex material rapidly and to write with precision and economy. While study in such subjects as history, economics or law is especially relevant to the Department's work, other disciplines are not excluded. The degree is regarded not as a professional qualification but as an indication of intellectual ability and the capacity to acquire academic discipline. After a period of training in the Department. successful candidates will take up posts in New Zealand diplomatic missions abroad, initially as Third Secretaries. Approximately half of their subsequent careers are likely to be spent abroad. At present New Zealand has diplomatic missions in London, Washington. New York. Ottawa. Paris, Brussels. Tokyo, New Delhi, Bangkok. Singapore. Kuala Lumpur and Canberra. There are Consular posts in New York. San Francisco, The Hague, Djakarta, and Geneva. Career officers serve abroad as Third, Second and First Secretaries, Counsellors, and Ambassadors or High Commissioners, as well as Vice Consuls, Consuls and Consuls-General. The Department is also considering appointing trainees who meet the general standards outlined above but who also have a special aptitude for languages and would be prepared to specialise in the study of languages such as Japanese. Hindu, Malay and Chinese. They would. If they desired, tend to become specialists in the language and civilisation of the country concerned and pass a greater than normal part of their subsequent career in alternation between service in the Department and missions abroad where their linguistic qualifications could be put to good use. The Department will arrange for successful candidates to acquire the necessary specialist training abroad. Apnlicants who are interested should write to — THE SECRETARY. DEPARTMENT EXTERNAL AFFAIRS, Wellingt °nFOX GLACIER HOTEL Require PORTER GENERAL. ’Phone collect: HOTEL FOX GLACIER. 7873