COLONIAL SERVICE WORK

Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1934, Page 7

COLONIAL SERVICE WORK

NEW ZEALANDERS APPOINTED.

THREE OF THE FOUR NOMINATED.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night.

Advice has been received by the Gov-ernor-General, Lord Bledisloe, that of the four New Zealand candidates recommended by the New Zealand central board of selection for the colonial appointment scheme, of which His Excellency is chairman, three have been selected by the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister. They were: For administrative positions, Mr. P. C. Minns, former Rhodes Scholar, Auckland University College and. Oxford University, and Mr. J. B. Sinclair-Lock-hart, Canterbury University College and Auckland University College; for medical appointment, Dr. R. W. D. Maxwell, Otago University. The scheme, which was inaugurated in 1929, was suspended by the boards for two and a-half years in view of the dearth of vacancies in the British Crown colonies. The primary object of the scheme is the recruitment from among graduates of the university 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 a matriculation.

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. Dr. Maxwell, who was appointed to Fiji, left direct for Suva.