‘TAGS' ON STATE BURSARIES: MINISTER’S REPLY
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Minister of Rehabilitation, Mr C. F. Skinner, answering a question in the House of. Representatives today by Mr G. F. Sim (Opposition, Rotorua) said that while rehabilitation bursars were asked to sign an undertaking to practice their profession in New Zealand for at least a period equal to that during which they received bursary assistance, they were not obliged to accept State employment and were not directed to any particular place of employment.
Mr Sim had questioned the Minister as to the correctness of a newspaper report that rehabilitation bursars in medicine and mining were being served with bonds dictating to students their future avenues of employment. The report had suggested that failure to comply would cost the students a minimum cash payment of £250.
Mr Skinner said it had always been the practice that full-time bursars were asked to sign an undertaking that they would follow their professions in New Zealand for a period equal to that of their assisted study. This undertaking was required of overseas bursars before they left New Zealand, but bursars studying in. the Dominion were not asked to sign until their second year of study. It was an administrative weakness that in the past some students had not been asked to sign, but the majority had been required to give such an undertaking. Mr Skinner said there were definitely no “tags” requiring doctors or others to work for the State or restricting them to any particular job, and the Government considered the undertaking asked was entirely reasonable. ... '
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 August 1947, Page 3
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