HIGHLY TRAINED MINDS.
- THE DOMINION’S LOSS. CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM . CONDEMNED. (Per United Press Association.) u AUCKLAND, December 18, “When are we going to recognise that the highest trained men should be able to study and return to New Zealand to properly paid positions in the civil service? ” asked Canon Archdall at the King’s College prizegiving. “The cream of the country is skimmed, and lamentably few of the travelling and Rhodes scholars are able to return to their native land and help to build up its life. A small country like this cannot afford such a loss of her best minds. It is partly due to foolish restrictions on entry into the civil 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 16 or 17, and so discourage boys from staying at school long enough to be really educated. I do not wonder that our economic problems are too much for us when such a system prevails. It produces a mediocre level.” :
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21213, 19 December 1930, Page 12
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