GRADUATES OFFERED LABOURER'S PAY
ih'XEDIN. Last X giit (PA).— “How can we hope to recruit research scientists with salaries LUe this?” asked Mr. F. C. Penfold (Canterbury Association), at the annual conference of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation, when quoting from an advertisement appearing in the morning paper, in which the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research sought applications from university graduates with M.S.C. and 8.5. C., with first class honoursy while offering salaries ranging from £372 per annum to £447. “Here we are,” he said, “offering salaries to B.S.C. with first class honours that are comparable with those of a labourer,” he said. The country should offer salaries that would attract, he added. A man would require to have tremendous enthusiasm for his job, or he would not stop at it, he would get out into private under takings,” Mr. Penfold said. He had taken this matter up time and time again. Ministers were sympathetic, but said they could do nothing as the question rested solely with the Public Service Commission.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 2 November 1949, Page 6
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