OPPORTUNITY FOR SCHOLARS

Taranaki Daily News, 19 December 1930, Page 8

OPPORTUNITY FOR SCHOLARS

NEGLECT IN NEW ZEALAND.

POSITIONS SOUGHT ELSEWHERE.

By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Dec. 18.

“When are we gojng to reepgnise that the highest trained men should be able to study abroad and to return to New Zealand to properly paid positions in the civil service?” asked Canon Archdall at the King’s. College prize-giving. “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 build up her life. A small country like this cannot afford such a loss of her best minds. It is partly due tb the foolish restrictions on entry into the civil service, which forces a- boy into it at an early age, with a system of seniority dear to the buieaucratie mind. “A similar mistake is. made by many banks, insurance and business offices, who say that they must have boys at 16 or 17, and'so discourage boys from staying nt school long enough to be really educated- I do not vonder that our economic problems are too much for us when such a system prevails. It produces a mediocre level and is not likely to produce a leader.”