TRAINED MINDS

Evening Star, Issue 20670, 18 December 1930, Page 10

TRAINED MINDS

WHAT THE DOMINION IS LOSING CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM BLAMED [Per United Press Association .] AUCKLAND, December 18. “ When arc wo going to rcsobnise that the highest trained men should be able to study abroad anil return to New Zealand to properly paid in the Civil Service?” asked Canon Arehdall at the King’s College prizegiving. “ The cream of the country is skimmed, and lamentably few of the unveiling and Rhodes scholars are able fo return to their native land and help to build up its life. A small country like this cannot afford such a loss ol her best minds. It is partly duo to foolish restrictions on entry into the livil Service which force a boy into it at an early age with a system of seniority dear to the bureaucratic mind. A similar mistake is made by many banks, insurance, and business offices, which say that they must have boys at sixteen or seventeen, and so discourage boys from staying at school longe enough to bo really educated. I do not wonder that our economic problems are too much for us when such n system prevails. It produces a mediocre level and is not likely to produce a learod.”