THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 99, 30 August 1913, Page 6

THE PUBLIC SERVICE.

WOMEN CANDIDATES

[Per Press Association.]

Wellington, August 30

The Education Department notifies that notwithstanding the Public Service Commissioners' intimation that the public service entrance examination will not be open to girl candidates this year entry forms have been received from girls. The only course properly open to those not eligible for or who do not desire employment during the coming year is either to take the intermediate examination in its non-competitive form with a view (if they have previously passed the examination) to securing a better schedule of marks than before or to enter through the Education Board as| scholarship candidates. In view, however, of the special circumstances the Department is prepared, for this year only, to allow intermediate can didates entering for the senior free places to take the competitive papers as set for' scholarship and public service candidates provided that their election to do so is endorsed on their applications. For such candidates there would be no order of merit lists, but in the alphabetical list of those who qualified in the November examination and in August for senior free places their names would appear with some distinctive mark of having I qualified on scholarship papers.