ENCOURAGING INTEREST
■ Not ©very: youth who joins the Eailway' Department can rise to the position of General Manager; but everyone may aspire to the, higher offices, and by industry and' ability establish a' claim to promotion. The Minister of Railways has made ij plain in a recent statement that he desires to see all employees competing for the higher- appointments,'and he proposes to assist them to aicquire the knowledge which will qualify them for promotion. No doubt the opportunities'will be welcomed by the service.; It will "not- be easy to organiso an educational scheme when employees are so widely scattered, but a beginning may be made by the use, in the centres at least, of existing facilities for: education in the University college's and technical schools. 1 These cannot supply instruction in practical railway work, but they can provide a sound general education whiph will enable the railwaymen- to profit, by the experience . gained in their daily occupation. In ''this' connectibnwe hope that the Minister will give consideration to the regulation which makes entrance to.the Department difficult after a certain age, thus .debarring many young men who wish to qualify first in engineering and to add to their general qualincaCions by travel and study of the railway systems of other countries.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 43, 21 February 1925, Page 6
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211ENCOURAGING INTEREST Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 43, 21 February 1925, Page 6
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