COLONIAL APPOINTMENTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22365, 12 September 1934, Page 4

COLONIAL APPOINTMENTS

NEW ZEALANDERS SELECTED GRADUATES OF UNIVERSITIES (Pee United Press Association.l WELLINGTON, September 11. ■ Advice has been received by the Gover-nor-General (Lord Bledisloe) that of four New Zealand candidates recommended by the New Zealand Central Board of Selection under the colonial appointment scheme, of which his Excellency is chairman, three have been selected by the Secretary of State for the Colonics (Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister), namely:— For administrative positions: Messrs P. C. Minns, ex-Rhodes scholar, Auckland University College and Oxford University; and J. B. Sinclair-Lockhart, Canterbury University College and Auckland University College. For medical appointment: Dr R. W. D. Maxwell, Otago University. The scheme was inaugurated in 1929, hut was suspended by the board for two years and a-half in view of the cTearth of vacancies in the British Crown colonies. The primary object of the scheme is recruitment from among graduates of universities of young men who are specially qualified to fill positions in the British colonies and dependencies administered by the Secretary of State for the Colonies. In addition to the higher class of appointment, there is a limited number of vacancies to be filled in the Police, Customs, and other departments and branches of the colonial service, for which the minimum standard of education is the matriculation pass.

Mr Minns is already in England. Mr Sinclair-Lockhart, whose appointment is to Kenya Colony, left Auckland on August 31 to take the required course at Cambridge University, and Dr Maxwell, who was appointed to Fiji, left direct for Suva.