CRITICAL VIEW OF STATE PAY FOR RESEARCH WORK
(P.A.) DUNEDIN. Nov. 2. “How can we hope to recruit research scientists with salaries like this?” asked Mr. F. C. Penfold (Canterbury association) at the annual conference of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation yesterday when quoting from an advertisement in which the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research applications from university graduates with M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees, with first class honours while offering salaries ranging from £372 to £447 per annum. “Here we are,” he said, "offering salaries to a B.Sc. with first class honours that are comparable with those of a labourer.” The country, he urged, should offer salaries that would attract suitable applicants. A man would require to have tremendous enthusiasm for his job, or he would not stop at it: he would get out into private undertakings under much better conditions. Mr. Penfold said he had taken the matter up time and time again. Ministers were sympathetic, but said that they could do nothing as the question rested solely with the Public Service Commission.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23091, 2 November 1949, Page 5
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