PUBLIC SERVICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 78, 29 September 1938, Page 10

PUBLIC SERVICE

ROOM FOR GRADUATES

INQUIRY TO BE MADE

COMMITTEE SET UP

The Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) announced today that lie had appointed a committee to investigate and report upon the question pf making greater use of University graduates in the Public Service, of the Dominion.

The members of the committee are:— '

Professor T. A. Hunter ' (bViceChancellor, University of New ;Zealand). l

Mr. Harold, G. Miller (librarian, Victoria University). Mr. H. H. Cornish (Solictor-Gehe-ral).

Mr. N. T. Lambourne (Director of . Education). , ~ Mr. B. C. Ashwin (Assistant Secretary to Treasury). Mr. T. Mark (Public Service Commissioner). Miss Irene Wilson (principal. Queen Margaret College). Miss A. C. Affleck (Public Service Commissioners-Office). Mr. M. McG. Cooper (representing New Zealand University Students' Association). Mr. E. Casey (representing Railway Department, or, in his absence, Mr. Urquhart). Mr. G. McNamara (Post and Telegraph Department). Mr. J. W. Heenan (Under-Secre-tary, Department of Internal Affairs) . Mr. J. H. McKenzie (Secretary, Post and Telegraph Employees' Association).. Mr. V. J. Stanley (General Secretary, New Zealand Railway Officers*' Institute). Mr. W. Stewart (Valuer-General, representing New Zealand Public Service Association). The questions upon which the committee is to report appear in the, following order of reference: — 1. Whether, in the public interest, the . Public Service as a whole can be' improved and strengthened by the employment of a greater number of University graduates. . 2. What scope exists at present through- • out the Public Service generally for the employment of graduates, particularly those with- special educational attainments and training? 3. What avenues (if any) not now open. in the Public Service to University graduates with special skill, training, or knowledge, could ba made so open, with advantage to . the public? 4. What avenues (if any) -not now open in the Public' Service to University graduates without special,. skill, training, or knowledge could be made so open, with advantage to the public? 5. Do the conditions governing the appointment and payment bf of- '; ficers in the Public Service - eh* - courage University graduates- to- ■ enter? If not, by what methpd*^. .can.these conditions'be j^proyed?, 6. Do the existing provisions .the promotion of, and consequential increase of salary to, officers of the Public Service encourage University graduates to remain in it?. 7. What amendments (if any) to exist-: ■ ing legislation are necessary".'in ■ the public interest: (a) to. facili- \ tate the entry of graduates to the Public Service; (b) to facilitate the -" promotion of graduates after entry to the Public Service; x(c) to "protect/ the1 interests of officers already-, hi;, the service, whether graduates or not? - ~.""' 8. To suggest any improvements which ..- in the public interest may be con-: sidered desirable or necessary as regards: (a) the University training of students desiring to. enter the * Public Service (including., the. • planning of a suitable course ■-, of study); (b) the post-graduate Uni- * versity training of officers already ~ in the Public Service; (c) any re- > levant matters arising indirectly under any heading ih this order of -X reference.