Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 6. 1966.

Promotion

Promotion

Promotion is on merit and ability and is decided by other scientists, not by laymen. Able scientists in their thirties earn well over £2000 a year. Some in their mid-forties earn £3000 or more.

Public servants work a fiveday 38-hour week, and receive two weeks' annual leave, until they reach the salary of £1210. or have five years' service. Then they are allowed three weeks' leave. In addition, all statutory holidays, a special day's recreational leave, and two special holidays following Christmas and New Year are granted. An officer retiring with 40 years' service receives six months' leave on full pay. A scientist may be allowed to anticipate part of this leave halfway through his career for overseas travel. Provision is also made for scientists to travel overseas on pay to study recent developments.

Some Public Service scientific institutions use equipment that is unique in New Zealand. An example is this Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer of the D.I.S.R., which records and deduces high-resolution proton structures of organic molecules. The nuclear resonance of fluorine, phosphorus, boron, and carbon-13, can also be studied, permitting investigation of a variety of organic and inorganic compounds.

Some Public Service scientific institutions use equipment that is unique in New Zealand. An example is this Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer of the D.I.S.R., which records and deduces high-resolution proton structures of organic molecules. The nuclear resonance of fluorine, phosphorus, boron, and carbon-13, can also be studied, permitting investigation of a variety of organic and inorganic compounds.