Competing on Level Terms.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)

Competing on Level Terms.

Miss Elsie M. Tostevin, an Oxford n-raduate, competing on level terms with men at examinations for high positions in Whitehall, has accomplished a feat without parallel in the Civil Service, states the Daily Mail. First she won second place, against 176 university men, at the examination for inepeetdrs of taxes. She then enteied for Claes 1 of the administrative group, and was twenty-sixth, but only 22 vacancies were offered. The list is certain to be extended, however, if only because several of- the successful candidates entered for both Class 1 and the Indian Civil Service. Miss Tostevin, therefore, will be declared successful at both examinations and will eventually become an administrator in Whitehall. At the oral test of personality or character for inspectors of income tax she was awarded 2-10 masks out of a maximum of 300. The first man in the list received only 220. This test <>f personal qualities, included tact, intelligence, alertness, and general outlook, which a written examination cannot supply.