There is a tendency to over-vredit qualification by examination as against qualification by actual practice, said Sir Apirana Ngafca, when the Surveyors' Registration Rid was before the House of ' Representatives. "Presently.” he added, “tliere will not he many jobs left that one can get into without examination. 1 think there are only two, one 1 is politics, and they reckon any, fool can gel into polities—well some do. though some very line men stray in as well. The other is farming, hut if you were to examine the successful farmers ot New Zealand, you wouiid find that few , would fulfil examination tests, though , their practical knowledge would be i supreme.” I
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16706, 25 July 1928, Page 4
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