THE PUBLIC SERVICE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 30 May 1919, Page 8

THE PUBLIC SERVICE

NEW REGULATIONS ISSUED.

(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, May 30. Amending , regulations under the . Public Service Act have been issued authorising preference to returned soldiers. The regulation® stale that appointments will be imade according to order of merit in the list of applicants who have passed the entrance examinations, provided that if any person is available and otherwise eligible who has passed the Civil Service Senior examination or Matriculation examination, although in any of these cases he may not have passed the entrance, examination, he should take precedence. orer candidates who have passed the entrance examination only; and pro- * vided further that the Commissioner may, if he thinks fit, give preference to a .member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force honorably dis-r i charged, and iwho ha* pas.sed the en- j trance examination _or its equivalent, j Applicants for positions •must state in / Hraat; capacity and in which departtoente they are willing to accept a P~ pointiment.