Publicly accessible
URL: http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/collections.html
copyright 2013, by the Victoria University of Wellington Library
All unambiguous end-of-line hyphens have been removed and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line, except in the case of those words that break over a page.
Some keywords in the header are a local Electronic Text Collection scheme to aid in establishing analytical groupings.
During the first term I received a message from Mr. Hogg, the Liaison Officer, stating that a group of employers was interested in organising a Careers Information Week. Little did I dream that such a modest beginning would produce this comprehensive programme which will now cover a period of 10 days.
I would not be venturesome in saying that about three-quarters of us have very little more than a vague idea of what we want to do after graduating. Here is an opportunity for all of us to receive first-hand information from men of experience, on the variety of careers available to graduates in New Zealand. This is a service which has been all but entirely lacking at Victoria to date, although it is indeed a most important one. Many overseas Universities have Appointments Boards carrying out this function, and this could well be the first step in setting up such a body, with the added advantage that many students at an early stage of their courses may become aware of beneficial changes they could make in the structure of their degrees to be more suitably qualified for a career which appeals to them.
Although there will be displays erected by individual concerns in the Common rooms and articles in the special "Salient" issue stressing particular opportunities in different fields, I would like to mention that all the talks will be of a completely general informative nature, with no bias towards any particular organisation.
Finally, on behalf of the Students' Association, I want to express our thanks and appreciation to those members of the organising committee who have worked so hard, and I would appeal to all students to show their gratitude in the tangible way possible—pack out the theatre and common room for every lunch-time talk.
Mr. Shand officially Opened the Careers Information Week on Monday, 31st July. Mr. Shand said the accelerated rate of change in the modern world was forcing industry to look more and more to the university for personnel They wanted men who could look to the future, not the "fixed man" who was conservative in making decisions, who relied on observations of the past and present rather than on estimations of the future.
The university could provide such people because the university taught disciplined thinking.
About one-third of all the Public Servants in New Zealand who hold a Master's degree with first or second class honours are in the External Affairs Department. Among this group you find a considerable number who have taken overseas as well as New Zealand degrees; you find post-graduate scholars and Rhodes scholars. You find, in fact, the sort of people who once used to leave New Zealand because their qualities were not appreciated or could not be properly used. In the return of these people, and in the enthusiasm with which they have applied their talents to their country's service, is evidence that New Zealand is coming of age.
Why have these post-graduate and Rhodes Scholars come home? And why have they chosen to become Public Servants? There are many reasons. In some cases—where they studied abroad—they found their attitudes changed by contact with British or Canadian or Australian students. In Britain, for example, it is taken for granted that some of the cream of the University crop, the best men and women of each generation, will make a career in the Public Service, just as some will go into politics, or business or the law. and just as some will make the University their career. The process is only starting in New Zealand. It will continue.
Most of the returning post-graduate scholars and the highly-qualified graduates who enter the Public Service have so far joined
First, work on external affairs is as mentally absorbing and reward
Secondly, while the work demands research as exacting as any man as done in his University days, his work has a practical issue. He just, for instance, know the intricacies of the Laotian problem; but,
Thirdly, if you work for External Affairs you are in a team of first-class people. If you're not a team worker this Department is not our cup of tea. If you are. you'll find yourself among a group of one
Fourthly, there is the stimulation of representing your country at
Fifthly, opportunities come early in New Zealand's diplomatic service. The service is still young and expanding; it is a good time to be in. Men and women in their twenties and thirties have responsible positions at home and abroad—as diplomatic secretaries and counsellors, as vice-consuls and consuls. Two of our senior women diplomats are serving abroad as First Secretaries, one in London, one in Washington. They have represented New Zealand at international conferences in half a dozen capitals. The marriage casualty rate among women diplomats is high—they are selected for their outstanding qualities; but women are welcomed in the service and they do magnificent work.
The Department is now eighteen years old. The trained professionals are starting to fill the top posts as Ambassadors and High Commissioners. The career has a high ceiling.
Graduates may be appointed to either of the two main divisions of the Department—the political side, or the consular and administrative side. The work in each is equally demanding, although there is a difference in emphasis. The young diplomat or consul will find himself among congenial colleagues. He will soon be caught up in the swirl of international affairs with quite weighty responsibilities laid on him. He will move among men and affairs that make the world's headlines. His interpretation of events and trends will be the basis of Government policy and actions. He must be clear-sighted and reliable, able to think and act wisely under pressure. He must be a practical type; no ivory tower for him. He must be able to get on with people and work in a team. He must be able and willing to become fluent in at least one foreign language. He must be able to write quickly and clearly in English. As New Zealand sets up further missions abroad there will be increasing need in the service for men and women with these qualities.
The starting pay is not as good as the University's. Annual leave is brief. There is no sabbatical year.
( Specialist Openings Too)
There are opportunities in the service of the Wellington City Council for young graduates to establish themselves and advance on merit.
In some Departments access to the senior positions is through years of acceptance of professional or technical responsibility. Positions are increasingly being developed in which the discipline of reading for a degree makes a notable contribution to advancement. The major work of some Departments, such as the Town Clerk's Department and the City Treasury, is concerned almost entirely with administration, without technical responsibilities of any other kind. Such degrees as those of law, commerce and arts aredistinct recommendations when positions become vacant, and tend to ensure advancement in minimum time to satisfactory senior positions.
The undertaking of the Wellington City Council is a very big and diversified organisation by any measure: its standards of service arehigh and the Council is always concerned to improve the calibre of its officers. The Council has expert professional members in many fields, and during the present period of national shortage of skilled labour in most occupations there are opportunities to secure positions in its service. These are permanent positions, professionally graded and rewarded, carrying superannuation rights and opportunities for promotion, and are comparable in every way with those in the Public Service.
Local body finance is highly specialised and requires particular training and experience which can best be obtained with such a body as the Wellington City Council.
Modern equipment is a feature of accounting work for the City, allowing elbow-room for modern methods: business machines, punch card equipment, are both employed on a considerable scale. Management accounting is important and provides one of the ways in which reports are made accurately and expeditiously to controlling committees: punch card costing ensures speed and accuracy: accounting for manufacturing and for sales and service require particular aids and techniques. More generally, there are the problems of large-scale financing, the Annual Departmental Estimates and the complications of public body Loan Finance.
In Libraries there is always room for University graduates, and the prospects for those with Arts, Science and some other degrees are excellent. Progress has already been made in divorcing professional library work from routine clerical processes, for which other staff is employed. Before a graduate can call himself a librarian he must be accepted by the Library School and undergo training for an academic year of nine months. A living allowance is paid by the Government.
Major City services such as the Wellington Public Libraries provide one of the most pleasant and rewarding avenues of library work, and can offer a wide variety of positions.
All of the three Trading Departments, with the general departments, rely largely on modern equipment. To take one as an example, the Wellington City Council is the Electrical Supply Authority for Wellington City, including practically all the suburbs, and for Makara County. Its up-to-date equipment includes 33,000 volt and 11,000 volt transmission, mainly by underground cables, a supervisory control system, converting plant for electric traction and a network of 11,000 volt cables serving 200 substations.
As may be expected, the Department requires and has on its staff engineers qualified to deal with every aspect of electricity supply, and thus there are opportunities for properly qualified men to obtain a really wide range of experience.
In all, there are ten departments: Town Clerk's, Treasury, City Solicitor's, the three Trading Departments, Libraries, Parks and Reserves, Traffic, and the City Engineers Department.
There is not space to deal with all of these, but something must be said of the City Engineer's Department, which is the works department of the Council. It employs a large staff of civil engineers, architects, surveyors, town planners, etc.—the officers necessary to deal with the construction and maintenance of streets and allied works, waterworks and drainage, both sewerage and stormwater: also to operate the cleansing services—street cleansing, refuse disposal—and the health services and operation of swimming baths. The Department's building operations alone are on a very large scale.
In the City Engineer's Department openings may be found for careers in Civil or Structural Engineering, Architecture, Quantity Surveying and Town Planning, apart from avenues for such specialised work as that of the Waterworks and Drainage Branches and the Building Division.
No engineering graduate can be registered and practice on his own account until he has had three years' appropriate practical experience. The Department affords opportunities for this to be obtained with a body of considerable standing, and provides continuing careers for those who wish to remain and perhaps specialise.
In this Department, as in others, there are opportunities for bursaries on a cadet-ship basis, and there are sometimes financial advantages in arranging for an interview before qualifying.
'Electronics is a very young science and its potenialities have as yet been only partially explored and exploited. There is no sphere where research is more necessary or can yield a bigger return. If industry is to maintain the great position which it has established in this field, it will have to enlist into its ranks an increasing number of able scientists and engineers. This ought not to be difficult. For it is hard to think of a more inspiring career, with better prospects for advancement and for useful service, than that which the electronics industry offers to technically trained young men today.'
This is also true of New Zealand.
This is a world-wide organisation with factories and commercial divisions in many countries. Here in New Zealand we have at Naenae an Electronic Centre manufacturing television and radio products and a Commercial Division in Wellington to distribute them. Behind this activity lies a challenge to enterprising young men and women in the technical and production fields and it is here that university graduates con be employed to aid maximum efficiency. In the Philips laboratory considerable design and development work is carried out on radio and television as well as the design and maintenance of electronic equipment to assist with the alignment and testing of apparatus on the production line. Draughting is another facet of the activities of the Laboratory. In conjunction with the Laboratory there is a Methods Engineering Section and a section responsible for pre-production planning and preparation for the production line. It is here and on the production line itself that mechanical engineers have their greatest opportunities. There is also an expanding engineering section where, again, both mechanical and electronic engineers have opportunities to build a career for the future. In our Commercial Organisation there are many aspects of technical work where graduates have wide opportunities open to them. This is not only in the accountancy and commercial degree fields but also in the technical aspects allied to the commercial activity.
Of these, probably the one of most interest to graduates is the Electronic Development and Applications Company Limited, in Wellington, which specialises more in development and research than production. Their achievements are becoming fairly widely known throughout the world, which proves that New Zealand can compete with the best. It is only top graduates with a keen interest in development and application of electronics who can achieve this result. The activities of EDAC are too numerous to outline here but some of their work, such as strain gauge application for dam building, railway engineering and breakwater construction, have achieved wide publicity. Likewise the production and design of lightweight transmitters and receivers has proved of value to many Government Departments.
Local: Commencing 1962 Philips will be offering each year three scholarships to students at the university. These will be mainly in the fields of engineering, science and accountancy. Such scholarships pay a generous allowance throughout the academic year and will continue each year until the student graduates. The only requirement in return is that the student works with the company during the long vacation. Upon graduation he is free to take whatever course he wishes for his future.
Overseas: From time to time students of proven ability will be sent overseas for one or two years' study in a foreign country. Similar types of overseas training are also offered by the Philips International Institute of Technological Studies, where many and varied courses are held in electronics, with all expenses paid.
Apart from this more formal education, the company also sends employees overseas for further training. This is all part of the general policy of keeping up with world trends. It is a policy designed to encourage our best brains into the rapidly expanding electronics industry.
You are cordially invited to discuss your interests by telephoning Mr.
The company would also be pleased to offer holiday positions to interested students, regardless of whether they wish to join the company, so that by working in the industry they can gain a better idea of its activities.
Philips Electrical Industries Of New Zealand Limited, 181-195 Wakefield Street, Wellington
How indeed? Or even choose a career until he has some practical experience of what it involves. How can a man say with certainty, "This is for me", until he knows what it is all about?
When a man decides on Lever Brothers (N.Z.) Ltd. he does not choose a career: he chooses a wide area in which to find it. This Company's training scheme allows a man to change direction as experience sharpens or develops his ambition.
But the aim is specific. It is to develop men to the status of professionals in the art of management, men who can move easily from one particular sphere of activity to another with complete confidence in their ability to succeed. In short, they will be professional managers.
Broadly speaking, the career opportunities fall into three categorices—technical, marketing and commercial management.
The profitable creation of a market must be, and always will be, the raison d'être of a business. Fundamentally, the entire marketing operation is based on research. It is a process of gathering facts and making decisions. Marketing is concerned with facts about potential markets, competitors, distribution, packaging, advertising appeals and media, sales quotas and sales promotions.
Lever's recruit graduates from the Arts, Law and Commerce faculties for careers in Advertising, Sales Management, Market Research and Product Development. A graduate is not employed for his specialised knowledge but because he should bring to the problems he will meet a training which will help him to break down a problem into its basic parts and to set them out in an intelligible pattern; the capacity to make a decision on what ought to be done; the power of language and the humility which will cause him to respect another man's ability and to learn from another's knowledge and experience. Marketing brings a man into contact with every side of the business, and this naturally trains him for advancement to top level positions.
The direction and control of the manufacture of soap products and glycerol is now in the hands of scientists, and at Lever's Petone factory 10 per cent of the manufacturing staff are graduates. These scientists — mostly chemists — are engaged in production management, quality control, development of new processes, methods engineering, formulation of new products and plant engineering. In addition to being technically competent, the graduate must be able to get the co-operation of a group of people. He must produce high quality products as well as the right quantity. Costs form an important part of his work. Lever Brothers have installed up-to-date plant and equipment, their laboratories are well equipped and the scientists have technicians to do the routine work. This provides a most satisfying career for a technical man.
Commercial Management is a very wide category and embraces all the functions not included in technical and marketing.
Buying: It is the buyer's job to get good value for money. He must acquire expert knowledge of the raw and packing materials which suppliers have to offer, and must build up good relations with them.
Management Accounting: The accountant's most important role is his participation in forward thinking, notably judging the financial effects of the annual operating plan. He also prepares estimates of capital expenditure and the yields on capital employed. The accountant helps to make a profit in the present and future.
Transport: All phases of the Company's operations, from the import of raw materials to the distribution of finished products, involve transport. Goods have to arrive at the right place, at the right time, in the correct quantity and at an economic price. Decisions have to be made about the appropriate form of transport and storage.
Inventory control, production planning, insurance, patents, trade marks and office services, are controlled by commercial management.
The Commercial Department is the Company's political, economic and financial watchdog, reporting on all relevant data and providing signals covering the entire operation in measuring efficiencies against pre-planned targets.
All the senior positions in commercial departments are held by commerce or accounting graduates.
A training programme is prepared for each graduate. Training is by doing and not looking, and men are encouraged to take early responsibility.
The development of a man's career is, of course, a continuing process which goes on long after the actual training is finished—it includes job rotation, attendance at special training courses, etc. Often training involves visits overseas.
Lever Brothers is looking for men capable of going to the top jobs. The speed at which a man moves depends, of course, on many factors, but it is not at all unusual for a man to be appointed to a senior post while he is still in his thirties. Starting salary for graduates of £950-£1000.
Lever Brothers offer study awards worth £175 p.a., to students in Science, Arts, Commerce and Law faculties who are keen to enter their industry. Bond—six months.
If you wish to obtain further information about careers with the Company, please apply to:
Mr. B. D. Mercer,
Staff Development Manager,
Lever Brothers (N.Z.) Ltd. Petone.
Phone 65-199
Careers For • Arts • Law • Science • And Commerce Graduates
Economics is, at one and the same time, probably the most fascinating and the most exasperating of fields in which to work.
Exasperating, because every member of the population of working age considers himself to be an expert in economics simply because he draws a salary cheque or a weekly wage and because he heard his boss say that the net overseas assets of the Banking System had increased and therefore everything is all right.
Fascinating (if you areworking in the Reserve Bank of New Zealand), because you are working with day-to-day events and your interpretation of these events and the action taken on that interpretation can affect the prosperity and plans of every person in New Zealand.
It is one of the main functions of a central bank to advise the Government on monetary and foreign exchange matters, and to do this it must keep in close contact with developments in the economy generally and in financial fields particularly. Information from personal contacts, from publications and from the analysis of statistical trends is drawn together by the Bank's Economic Department into reports on which monetary policy is based.
In an endeavour to reduce the exasperation mentioned earlier the Bank publishes a monthly "Bulletin" whose graphs, tables and articles are aimed at giving the common man a better understanding of current economic events and basic economic truths. This is also compiled in the Economic Department.
Most of New Zealand's official statistics are compiled by the Government Statistician, but the Bank does gather and process several important series. The most well-known of these are various banking statistics and the statistics of overseas exchange transactions—the "balance of payments" figures released every month. While much of the work is done by data-processing machines, people with a training in economics are needed to guide the work and to ensure consistency of interpretation.
An extensive economic library, constantly supplemented by the latest books and periodicals, is available to keep the economic staff in touch with the up-to-date thought both in the theory and practice of economics.
This is of particular use to those who aretaking higher degrees. Every encouragement is given to staff members to do this—time off for lectures, study and examinations, payment of fees and a bonus on completion. In addition, the Bank sends members to various staff training courses (mainly of a banking nature), both in New Zealand and overseas.
The Bank is confident that its salaries and conditions compare well with those being generally offered in New Zealand today—not the least of the fringe benefits is the opportunity the Economic Department offers for stimulating arguments with people with interesting views on any topic.
The opportunities for advancement within the Economic Department are excellent and for those who show a flair for administration and a predilection for the practical there are openings in the Bank's "operating" departments, Chief Cashier's, Chief Accountant's and Secretary's—which deal with banking operations, exchange and advance control, the registration of Government and Local Authority stock and the various other matters which come within a Central Bank's sphere.
For further information on what the Bank offers, get in touch with the Secretary, phone 41-095.
* spudding-in is oilmen's jargon for starting drilling operations for oil.
... comes halfway between the work of BP geologists, palaeontologists, geophysicists, seismologists, mathematicians (and others) who help to find oil across the BP world ...
... and all kinds of engineers, geochemists, physicists, analysts, distillers, and more mathematicians (and more others) who help to get oil out of the ground and make it into fuels, lubricants, and other products for use all over the world. In New Zealand, marketing calls for men trained in the arts, science, commerce, accounting and engineering (and even more others).
If you're halfway to thinking about spudding-in on an oil-industry career, particularly with BP, we'll be happy to help you the whole way.
Before you choose a career, or a job, think a little. Remember that your working life will extend for forty years — for 75,000 working hours. That's a long time. Sufficient to carve a successful career ... and quite long enough to find every day a boring, frustrating grind.
Above everything else it's important to enjoy your job. And that's why we want to tell you about Felt and Textiles of New Zealand Limited—an organisation offering infinite variety and exceptional opportunities. Felt and Textiles operate 12 plants in New Zealand, employs 1,600 men and women. Factory workers, administrators and creative staff. Felt and Textiles is steadily adding to its manufacturing interests. Twenty years ago there was only the now famous Feltex; today Felt and Textiles produce more than a million yards of woven carpet a year, a million-and-a-quarter pairs of shoes and slippers, nearly all the felt and a large proportion of the underfelt, padding and flock made in the country. Laces, cords, webbing, nylon and terylene ropes, and fishing lines too.
It won't surprise you that Felt and Textiles is the largest single user of New Zealand wool. And it won't surprise us if you find that Felt and Textiles can offer the very career you've been looking for. Write for details to: The Personnel Manager,
Felt & Textiles of New Zealand Limited, Box 848, Wellington.
Today there are approximately 2,500 university graduates in the 38 Government Departments that come under the Public Service Commission. One hundred and seventeen hold doctorates conferred by overseas universities or by the University of New Zealand.
The Commission awards each year bursaries for full-time university study in Engineering, Architecture, Science, Arts, Commerce and Accountancy. It also offers post-graduate study bursaries for Masters' Degrees in several disciplines, for the Diploma of Social Science at the School of Social Science, and for the Diploma of Public Administration at the School of Public Administration.
At the technical level awards arealso made for full-time study for diplomas issued by the two Agricultural Colleges.
In addition a great many young public servants attend university lectures as part-time students in one or other of the disciplines.
For the university graduate a career in the Public Service offers the priceless opportunity of specialising in his or her chosen field. Graduates in economics find scope for their talents as research officers, or investigating officers in the Treasury or in the Department of Industries and Commerce. Arts and law graduates for whom international affairs held an attraction, may find an outlet for their ability in the Department of External Affairs. All three Departments frequently send officers to posts overseas. This is also the practice in the Audit Department, where specialists in accountancy learn to become "Watchdogs of the Public Purse".
At the present time few graduates in physics and mathematics are employed in private industry in New Zealand, and the major openings for them are in Government Departments, such as Scientific and Industrial Research, Civil Aviation, Agriculture, or in school teaching.
The demand for technologists graduating in botany, zoology and geology is also mainly confined to Government Departments. The exception is perhaps in geology, where oil companies send graduates to appropriate post-graduates' schools for training in Oil Geology.
The N.Z. Forest Service has its own school for the training of foresters and will take Bachelors or Masters in Botany. Graduates in Zoology arealso taken and given a further training in forest entomology. Technologists in Agriculture are employed in the various research stations of the Department of Agriculture, or on field work.
In the engineering field the Ministry of Works, N.Z. Electricity, and Civil Aviation offer a very wide range of careers in the respective branches of engineering.
The State today plays an important role in social welfare work. With the changing concept of "welfare" has come an appreciation of the importance of the university trained "counsellor" in welfare.
Post-graduate bursaries are awarded each year for the Diploma in Social Science. The course is a two-year one at the School of Social Science at Victoria University for graduates who wish to specialise in welfare work in the Departments of Justice, Social Security, Maori Affairs, or the Child Welfare Branch of the Department of Education.
There is also a Psychological Service of the Department of Education in which psychologists with teacher training specialise in work with handicapped and gifted children.
Accountants in the Public Service today comprise several distinctive groups.
In most Departments there is a Chief Accountant who is responsible for the accounting management of the Department, and who often advises Government on general financial matters. In the Audit Department accounting men specialise in audit work, and in Inland Revenue in taxation problems. In other Departments they areemployed on investigating work, machine accounting, cost accounting or stores accounting.
Many Government Departments have their own legal sections which deal with legal aspects of the work they undertake. Practically every branch of law is met with in the Public Service, so that any qualified legal man can be assured of interesting and satisfying work.
In Government Departments there are:—
Today administration has become a specialised field of work. Top level positions in the Public Service, with some exceptions, are primarily administrative. Officers in this type of work may transfer from one Department to another.
The Public Service has taken a prominent part in the development of the N.Z. Administrative Staff College. Selected senior executive officers attend courses in executive management run by the College. These are four weeks' residential courses run jointly by the Institute of Public Administration and the Institute of Management.
Many graduates, in planning their future careers, desire to associate themselves with a virile and expanding organisation—an organisation which will give them every opportunity to exercise individual initiative, and to show their creative ability, in contributing something worthwhile to community needs. In these days of rapid scientific progress, there is something particularly exciting in being associated with the technological discoveries which are contributing to a higher standard of living for mankind. Success in this field is a matter of teamwork, in which each technical man is able to contribute to the best of his ability, and to gain a personal satisfaction from the results achieved.
I.C.I. is just such an organisation as this. Imperial Chemical Industries (N.Z.) Ltd., which is a subsidiary of its Australian parent Company—ICIANZ Ltd.—has its Head Office in Wellington, and Area Sales Offices are established in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. Since the Company in New Zealand is principally engaged in marketing activities the Technical Staff is mainly employed on work linked with sales activity, such as customer service, market research and trials of new products. The efficient functioning of the Slide Fastener Factory and Technical Library at Wellington, and the Multi-Purpose Manufacturing and Storage Unit at Seaview, Lower Hutt, is also the supervisory responsibility of the Technical Staff.
Career opportunities for technical graduates arise to a far greater extent in Australia than in New Zealand. This is reflected in the recruitment of graduates by ICIANZ which offers good opportunities for advancement, with a generous salary scale and such further training as might be needed, for graduates with a degree in Chemistry, Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, Civil or Electrical), Physics, Entomology, Botany, Mycology, Veterinary Science or Agricultural Science.
New Zealand University students may apply for temporary employment with ICIANZ during the summer vacation, to gain some useful industrial experience. This Scheme is advertised annually through the Universities in New Zealand. ICI(N.Z.) also is always interested in receiving enquiries from graduates in science, chemical engineering, commerce or the arts.
I.C.I. (N.Z.) Research Fellowships—Two Fellowships were established in 1951 through an annual grant which now stands at £1,700 p.a. The Research Fellowships are for the promotion of knowledge by means of post-graduate research in fields which have some direct relation to the scientific interests and national responsibilities of I.C.I. (N.Z.), such as pure and applied chemistry, biochemistry, agricultural science, chemotherapy, pharmacology, physics, engineering, mining and metallurgy. The research work of a Fellow during the period of his Fellowship shall be carried out in one of the Institutions of the University and the annual value of a Fellowship shall be within the range of £550/£850. The University of New Zealand Calendar gives further details of these post-graduate Research Fellowships.
Further career information is available in greater detail in the booklets "Careers in ICIANZ for Technical Graduates" and "Commercial Careers in ICI in New Zealand" with more general background information regarding ICI provided in the booklet "ICI—The Greatest Name in British Chemicals". These booklets may be had upon request to:—
The Technical Department Library,
Imperial Chemical Industries (N.Z.) Ltd.
Kelvin Chambers, 16 The Terrace, Wellington. C.1.
New Zealand's Prosperity Depends On Growth — Growth Means Opportunities
These involve making full use of all New Zealand's resources — human as well as physical
The encouragement of economic growth is the special responsibility of the
Department Of Industries And Commerce
It is the keynote of all the Department's activities
Men and women graduates with a liberal education in languages history geography sociology philosophy political science economics law commerce or in any subject which has developed in them critical, analytical and creative abilities will find interesting work in a department which gives opportunities to:
prepare long-term perspectives for development of farming, manufacturing and servicing industries
encourage efficient use of special skills and techniques, financial and natural resources
undertake social and economic research
advise on regional and economic development
advise on tariffs and import licensing, taxation, immigration, monetary and fiscal policies
investigate the economics of distribution
administer consumer protection legislation
serve in overseas trade posts
attend trade and economic conferences
negotiate trade agreements
analyse the economic policies of other countries
promote the sale of New Zealand products overseas
If you have initiative, imagination, enthusiasm and an interest in this work which is linked with the future of New Zealand
Industries And Commerce Can Give You The Opportunity To Take Part
If you are looking for a career with an International Company which is rapidly expanding all over the world—you will be interested in our One Year Graduate Training Programme. Through the development of management ability in our staff we ensure that promotion goes to the best men. Ford Motor Companies around the world use a similar programme and many former trainees are now in executive positions within the World-Wide International Group.
Many men who have joined our Company here in New Zealand have gone to important Ford positions overseas. Others have received special Ford training in North Ameriea and have later returned to better positions here.
Graduates, and students who expect to graduate this year, should write for a confidential interview with:
The Industrial Relations Manager
Ford Motor Company Of New Zealand Limited
P.O. Box 12 Sea View Road Lower Hutt
The Post Office is one of New Zealand's largest trading organisations, and the growth in its services is continuous and rapid. Last year its revenue totalled over £25 million. A far cry indeed from the £147 in 1841, its first year of operation.
It is important to remember its commercial character, even though the Post Office is a great public service. Its assets total over £100,000,000, and throughout the country it has over 24,000 permanent employees. For, wherever people go the Post Office and the communications services it provides go also. Not only are its services essential to the health of our economy, but the linking of people over the distances separating them is an important unifying factor in our society. This close link between the community and its systems of communication means that as the population increases and the economy expands, so too must all the services provided by the Post Office.
Statistics show that each year this happens; the volume of postal telegraph and telephone traffic goes up. A brief survey of this growth pattern gives some idea of the size of the Post Office's operations.
Last year 464,254,000 articles were posted, bringing the Post Office £6,157,058. Each year this total is increasing at an average rate of 13,000,000 articles, and it is interesting to note that about 58 per cent of the total are posted in the three centres of Wellington, Christchurch, and Auckland. Problems naturally arise in the handling of mail at these centres, especially as they are dispersed. It has become apparent that traditional methods of handling the flow of mail are inefficient and inadequate, and it is certain that in the near future programmes of streamlined and mechanised handling will have to be introduced. Detailed study of electronic and mechanical equipment in use in overseas mailrooms will have to be made to discover those most suited to our conditions, and to work out necessary modifications. Also, modern postal centres are planned for Christchurch. Auckland and Wellington.
The overseas trend for telegraph traffic is for much of it to be taken over by the telephone and leased teleprinter services. No doubt this has happened in New Zealand too, but population growth has disguised it and kept the figures for telegraph traffic stable. New Zealanders send an average of three telegrams per head per year, a total of 7.3 million telegrams last year, and are consequently the world's greatest telegram senders. The service yielded the Post Office £990,532 last year.
Last year New Zealand joined in the international telex service network, and subscribers can communicate via teleprinter direct with subscribers in twenty-six other countries. A real need is felt by businessmen and large concerns for an internal telex network, and it is hoped that this scheme will be able to be implemented shortly. At the moment, firms may lease direct point-to-point teleprinter circuits, and 269 do.
With 30.85 telephones per 100 population, New Zealand ranks fifth in the world for telephone density. There are now 744,749 telephones and 504 telephone exchanges in the country. Although 53,600 telephones were installed last year, and new exchanges are being erected all the time, the Post Office has been unable to satisfy the demand for telephone service, and future expansion will have to be stepped up. Other future plans are to extend the areas in which subscriber dialling can be made, and to continue with the conversion from manual to automatic exchanges. Last year telephone rentals brought the Post Office £8,580,652, and toll charges £5,620,236.
These then aresome of the plans for future development—new postal centres and mechanised mail handling in the larger centres, the establishment of an internal telex service, and the extension and further automatisation of the telephone service. It was in recognition of the extent of this development programme and of the need for financing it that the Post Office recently announced increases in its charges.
Although it has, for several years, shown a profit in its operations, only
But such a development programme needs more than finance to make it possible. It needs administrators and planners with ability and foresight; men who are able to grasp the implications of existing situations and future probabilities, to decide on means of improvement or extension, and to put them into effect. Graduates with broad-based degrees are likely to have this necessary insight and breadth of understanding, and are also likely to be able to acquire necessary specialised training and knowledge quickly. We want your ability
When the company of Woolworths Ltd. was launched in 1924 only 30 people responded to the invitation to become shareholders. £11,700 was raised and the first Bargain Basement was opened in Sydney.
Today this company owns and operates 500 stores and supermarkets and has 50,000 shareholders on its register. The New Zealand company operates 55 of these stores and employs 2,000 people.
Woolworths (N.Z.) Ltd. is now implementing a £1,000,000 expansion programme involving new stores, new supermarkets, new warehouses, rebuilding and modernisation of existing premises.
The need for executive trainees is a continuing one, and in consequence an Executive Trainee Scheme is in operation. This course of instruction trains young men with higher education to manage stores and to fill other executive positions.
The course is an intensive one, culminating in a highly paid appointment. The qualities Wool-worths look for in an applicant are:
Men and women with a University education who possess these qualities are assured of a full and rewarding career with Woolworths.
Training is carefully planned and supervised by a Senior Executive of the Company in conjunction with a branch manager.
All the basics are covered during this period and it culminates in the trainee's appointment as Section Manager. This is a Junior Executive position and entails responsibility for a section of a shop in regard to service to customers, staff training and control of stock. This target should be reached in two years.
The next step is to Shop Management and being wholly responsible for a Woolworths branch, its staff, stock and turnover. The executive has now passed his first major milestone.
Promotion is now to larger branches, and then on to Zone or Head Office Management. Some of the avenues available are Buying Management, Top Management, Sales Promotion Management, District and Group Management, Stock Control Management and Distribution Management.
Applicants are carefully selected The qualities of determination keenness and pleasing personality are sought, and good health is prerequisite.
Woolworths believe that University training equips men and women to deal effectively with the problems of big business.
The Personnel Manager of Woolworths, Mr.
Woolworths offer a Bursary of £176 p.a. to university students who expect to complete their degrees in 1962. No bonding is required, but bursary holders are selected from young men who have the necessary qualities to become future Executives in the Company. One condition of the bursary is that students accept employment during vacations as part of their training.
Woolworths Ltd. (Australia & New Zealand) has no connection, financial or otherwise, with other chain store organisations overseas.
The growing Complexity of commerce provides more and more opportunity for young men who have the ability to think and at intelligently. The life insurance business is a field which promises very worthwhile opportunities for such young men. Whilst on first sight the business of insurance might seem a pretty straightforward thing, in practice its ramifications go very wide. Consequently, there are several quite different highly specialised fields within the industry. Although a young man will probably make a particular field his main endeavour, there is still the scope and opportunity to move to another field or be promoted to executive or managerial positions which cover a broader field than the one in which he may have first specialised.
The A.M.P. Society is very much aware of the need for qualified young men and has set out to create attractive employment opportunities for graduates The A.M.P. has a high basic salary scale and the general conditions of employment are very good. In addition to the banc scale, qualifications are recognised by increments which may range from £25 to £400 per annum. Examinations which qualify for recognition are various: e.g., examinations for Accountancy and B.Com, Institute of Valuation (Property Valuation), Actuarial Practice, and the Insurance Institute's own examinations all arerecognised.
There are ancillary benefits that in practice are of real value: The security of employment, generous long service leave in addition to three weeks annual leave, assistance with home purchase on very favourable terms, liberal superannuation including both cash and pension retirement benefits.
As we have said, the fields of activity in a life insurance office are diverse. These particular ones would provide opportunity for university graduates jointing the A.M.P.:
Investments: The control of funds which in New Zealand alone amount to £90 million is a skilled occupation. The investigation of investment avenues-analysis of annual accounts, reports and supporting statistical schedules for preparation of submissions to the Board of Directors—provides opportunity for professional accountants.
Accounting: Huge sums are handled each year necessitating streamlined accounting methods. In this, Accountants are assisted by a modern punched card installation and electronic data processing machines.
Production: The supervision and training of a team of high calibre salesmen involves a constant demand for new sales techniques and ideas to maintain the Society in top position in a highly competitive industry.
Administration: The large staff needed to operate the Society's business necessitates top-line administrators. Their task is to co-ordinate and supervise the fast expanding operations in New Zealand. Australia and England.
There are at present less than a dozen Actuaries in New Zealand. Actuarial work involves the application of mathematical and statistical methods to problems arising in Life Assurance Offices, Pension Funds, Friendly Societies, Banks, Government and Commercial institutions. In New Zealand, most actuaries are employed by or associated with life insurance offices.
Actuarial work involves the application of mathematical and statistical methods to problems arising in Life Assurance Offices, Pension Funds, Friendly Societies, Banks, Government and Commercial Institutions. In New Zealand, most actuaries areemployed by or associated with life insurance offices.
An actuary will be a person with a leaning towards mathematics and who has qualified in the examinations conducted by The Institute of Actuaries (headquarters in London) or the Faculty of Actuaries (headquarters in Scotland). He would not necessarily have had a University Degree to undertake the Actuarial Study, but he would need to have had a good grasp of mathematics at least to sixth form standard.
The earlier parts of the examinations cover subjects of a mathematical nature (including probability, calculus of finite differences, life contingencies, and statistics) and also financial subjects. The later part of the examinations deals with the application to professional problems of the principles covered in the earlier examinations.
The A.M.P. Society gives generous financial assistance to staff members studying for actuarial examinations, in respect of their tuition and examination fees. It awards a special salary increase (at present £400 p.a.) to members of its staff who gain the degre of Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. Special salary increases are also given for meritorious service.
Modern accounting methods and the introduction of recently developed electronic equipment are bringing new concepts to accounting and administration. Qualified executives are being freed of much of the detail once associated with their specialised tasks and more and more they are taking an increasing share in management and policy forming. The A.M.P. is in the forefront in introducing advanced equipment and was in fact the first organisation in Australia to instal for its own use an electronic computor.
At the A.M.P. Society we feel certain pride to be, as it were, leading the field in the matter of electronic data processing. We feel that we who manage and staff A.M.P. are fortunate in having the experience and the challenge of adapting and gearing our operations to take fullest advantage of these new aids to commerce.
If You Are Interested To Find Out More About Career Opportunities In Life Society
Phone 46-000—or call at the AMP. Office, cnr. Hunter Street and Customhouse Quay, Wellington.
To meet the demand for power in New Zealand, it will be necessary to double the capacity of the systems every ten years. For domestic purposes, New Zealanders rate among the greatest consumers of electricity in the world. The New Zealand Electricity Department, established 1as a separate entity in 1945, has grown concurrently with the demand. Since that time the capital outlay has increased from £30 million to £220 million.
The Department, operating on a strictly commercial basis, designs and arranges for the construction of hydro-electric and other schemes, builds transmission lines for the distribution of power, and maintains and operates the completed networks. Power is supplied to electric power boards and other distributing authorities, who in turn sell it to consumers. Head Office in Wellington is a clearing house for the work of District Offices in Auckland, Hamilton, Napier, Palmerston North, Nelson, Christchurch, Dunedin and Invercargill. The work of the Department is carried out largely by professional engineers, draughtsmen, technicians and tradesmen, and general administrative staff.
Engineers are responsible for the design, installation, and maintenance of electrical equipment and for the technical operations of the Department. They include 150 graduates.
Suitable young men are assisted to attend University. Over the last five years 33 have been granted study awards for full-time engineering studies. Graduates take up employment as Assistant Engineers and are given experience in all aspects of the Department's technical work under a three-year training schedule.
Qualified staff have responsibility for the Department's accounting, costing, stores and general administrative functions, and making arrangements for the finance of this huge trading business. Time off is granted for attendance at lectures, and for a final year those with good records may be offered bursaries on full pay. Training is given in all aspects of the work.
Some graduates in Arts and Law are also employed on specialist work.
"The future belongs to those who prepare for it".
Accountancy, particularly Industrial Accountancy, provides the values young people want in their careers.
The Industrial Accountant operates at the very nerve centre of an enterprise where important policies and decisions are made—decisions to which he contributes vitally. His work is responsible, challenging, even exciting.
General Motors New Zealand Limited provides opportunities for such work, for such careers.
You will qualify, or will have already qualified, by passing your examinations, but mastery of any profession requires practical experience. The type of experience you secure is of crucial importance to your development as a potential financial executive.
What, then, does the undergraduate or the graduate do? We suggest he is wise to seek experience in an organisation which makes use of modern fully developed Management Accounting. This, as you know, is accounting information presented in such a way as to assist Management in the creation of policy and in better and more profitable day-to-day operation. (Budgets, profit planning, cash forecasting, cost accounting and cost analysis, internal control and audit, reporting to management, punched card accounting and electronic data processing.)
There are a number of such firms using these modern methods, but the student's problem is to choose a suitable one to provide the right accounting environment.
The Finance Department of General Motors New Zealand Limited offers unlimited opportunities to this end. Should you wish to discuss the industrial accounting field generally or particularly, we believe we can offer objective, disinterested advice.
It is suggested that you feel free to write, telephone or visit (in confidence) cither Mr. General Motors New Zealand Limited, Bouverie Street, Petone. P.O. Box 1999, Wellington Telephone 66-199.
Twelve years ago, I was facing the inevitable question which faces every Graduate when he gets his Degree. What was I going to do.
Some of my friends had no problem—for some it was simply a case of joining the family farm or business— for others the pursuit of their vocation in the Ministry or Medicine—the remainder were to follow their chosen profession in Law, Dentistry, and so on.
Many of us, however, particularly those with Arts Degrees, had no such clear course and were faced with several possibilities.
I ended up talking to friends in the business world—I went around one or two businesses to get the atmosphere and sec what it was all like. Vaguely I began to sec the possibilities of a career in industry and I was given much helpful advice among which was a useful tip, "If you aregood with Things, go into finance, buying and accounting. If you aregood with People, go into production, selling or personnel administration".
I began to seek interviews, during which I eventually came to Cadbury's to discuss the possibility of a position.
They were a Company that had already interested me. I knew of their reputation as enlightened employers and manufacturers of high quality food products.
At the interview I could not help being impressed by their obvious sincerity, their broadness of vision and their business ability. I had discussions with several of their top Executives and also with one of the Cadbury family and, as a result of these, I decided to join the firm.
Looking back on that decision, I have never regretted it. As a senior executive, I now have a job of all-consuming interest which is a perpetual challenge to me—a job where new problems areconstantly arising and where the training in clear thinking and problem analysis which I received at University is of inestimable value. I am in constant contact with the world at large—the consuming public, the distributive trade and the many people working with me in our own organisation. I am part of a world-wide organisation which involves extensive travel. Above all, there is the constant thrill of seeing a business grow and thrive as a result of your own efforts and to assist that business in playing its essential role in so many directions in the life of the community.
If you would like to find out more about a business career we shall willingly give what help we can. Please write to the Chairman of Directors, Cadbury Fry Hudson, P.O. Box 890, Dunedin.
The Ministry of Works is associated in some way with almost
Its history commenced soon after British Sovereignty was established
To-day the Department is responsible for the design and construction of such public works as: Electric power schemes (hydro,
The planning and supervision of such a huge programme of works, currently costing approximately £1½ million a week, requires a big staff of professional, technical, and administration officers, plus the services of hundreds of contractors and thousands of workmen.
The Ministry of Works comprises seven divisions, the head of each division being responsible to
The Administration Division of the Department is one of the largest administration groups in the Public Service. It includes Executive Officers, Accountants, Solicitors, Stores Officers. Land Purchase Officers, and Typists. This staff provides all the necessary clerical and administrative services for this large organisation.
Desirable examination qualifications for administration staff are degrees in commerce or arts, the Professional Examination in Accountancy, or the Chartered Institute of Secretaries' Examination.
An architect in the Ministry of Works is engaged in the design and erection of a multitude of buildings ranging from housing to universities and from hospitals to post offices.
There are vacancies for both young men and women as:
Architectural Draughting Cadets. Appointments are available to applicants with University Entrance (or a better qualification), in the university centres of Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin. Cadets are required to study part-time at the local university for the Architectural intermediate Examination, and on completion of this examination will be eligible for selection for a bursary to enable them to attend the School of Architecture at the University of Auckland with a view to qualifying as Architects.
Appointments are also made of boys and girls who desire to make a career in Architectural Draughting alone.
Quantity Surveyors' Assistants. Appointments are made from those with School Certificate to the various District Offices of the Department. Quantity Surveyors' Assistants are required to study with the view of becoming qualified Members of the Quantity Surveyors' Institute of New Zealand.
Vacancies at an appropriate salary also exist for Architects, Architectural Draughtsmen and Quantity Surveyors who have the necessary qualifications.
Civil Engineers in the Ministry of Works areresponsible for the investigation, survey, design and construction of a wide variety of works. These include electric power development schemes (hydro, geothermal steam, and coal-fired steam), highways, bridges, aerodromes, railways, irrigation and river control works, housing-site development, sewerage, and water-supply services.
Civil Engineers tend to specialise in some branch of civil engineering after a sound general training. Such special lines include design of various types such as power schemes, bridges, or multi-storied buildings. There is also scope for men interested in research in concrete or soils technology. Beyond all these lie opportunities for executive management and the direction of large engineering organisations.
Young men may enter the civil engineering profession in the Ministry of Works as Assistant Engineers if they are graduates in engineering; or Engineering Cadets, the latter being appointed as follows:
Straight from school. Appointments are made annually in February from applicants who have sat the University Entrance Scholarships examination in mathematics, physics, and chemistry; from applicants who have completed the intermediate examination for the B.E. degree and are under 21 years of age at the date of interview; or, from applicants who have passed all or parts of the first or second professional examinations of the B.E.
Applications for study awards are invited in the press in October each year. Suitable applicants are interviewed when examination results are known, and appointments are made in February. Appointees are sent to university, full time, at departmental expense, to study for their degrees and arepaid an allowance while studying. During the long vacation cadets return to the Department.
Engineering cadets are promoted to Assistant Engineers on completion of their degrees and all Assistant Engineers are given a thorough training, in both design and construction, to a standard which will enable them to become Registered Engineers in New Zealand and Associate Members of the Institution of Civil Engineers, London.
Mechanical Engineers in the Ministry of Works deal with a very wide range of mechanical equipment from heavy construction plant as used on hydro-electric schemes to heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning equipment for Government buildings and institutions.
Assistant Mechanical Engineers, Assistant Electrical Engineers, and Assistant Building Services Engineers are recruited from University graduates in mechanical or electrical enginering or from applicants with suitable practical training who have completed the examination of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Institution of Electrical Engineers or the Institution of Heating and Ventilation Engineers respectively.
Mechanical or Electrical Engineering Cadets are chosen in the same way as Civil Engineering Cadets.
Officers of the Town and Country Planning Branch are responsible for administration, design, and research work in connection with the preparation of district and regional planning schemes by local authorities throughout the country. The branch is also responsible for research and investigations necessary in the preparation of comprehensive surveys of our national resources. The Town and Country Planning Branch thus offers careers for university graduates in geography or economics as well as those who have passed professional or diploma examinations in town and country planning.
Those with university education, or those who seek bursaries or those who seek bursaries or other assistance under the Department's vigorous staff training scheme are assured of a worthwhile and rewarding career. If any of the careers described above interest you, please apply for further particulars to: The Staff Training Officer, Ministry of Works, P.O. Box 8023, Wellington, C.1.
There's no monotonous grind in railway engineering. Rarely are any two jobs entirely alike. Railway engineering — civil, mechanical signal, or electrical — offers scope for talents in both the technological and administrative fields. The principal openings for university graduates in the Railways Department are in the engineering profession, although greater interest is now being taken in university qualifications for those who will concentrate on the administrative and operational side of transport. The Railways Department is concerned with transport of all kinds—rail, road, air, and sea—and those who aspire to managerial positions will find it essential to grow up with the organisation, gaining as wide an experience as possible in its various aspects.
With the present rapid pace of technological development, the Railways Department constantly needs trained engineers. In New Zealand, as elsewhere, the chal
The introduction of new and improved forms of motive power, the
Among the many different types of vocation offered by the railways in its various branches is that of the Railway Civil Engineer, a career of endless variety with a scope and magnitude of which few people areaware.
The railway civil engineer is responsible for the design, construction and maintenance of a wide variety of structures over and past which the railway runs. The track itself is maintained under his control as arethe bridges, viaducts and tunnels.
There are55 miles of railway bridges in New Zealand, ranging from the mile-long structure over the Rakaia River, down to those of a few feet spanning little wayside streams. In height they reach a climax in the grandeur of the Mohaka Viaduct, 318 feet above the river. Some of these 2,600 bridges and viaducts were designed and built, and all are maintained, by railway civil engineers.
The 53 miles of New Zealand railway tunnels—189 of them—are under the care of the railway civil engineer, as are station yards, buildings and goods sheds and the staff dwellings and hut settlements. His work is to be seen in the attractive modern designs of the newer station buildings, as at Roto
Responsibility for the design, construction, maintenance, and operation of railway locomotives and rolling stock, and of the associated workshops, falls upon the shoulders of the railway mechanical engineers. Steam, diesel, and electric locomotives, multiple-unit electric trains, diesel railcars, and passenger and freight vehicles of all kinds come under their care.
A major transformation in this field in recent years, and still taking place, is the steady changeover from steam to diesel traction. With both human, technological, and financial problems involved, this is no light task.
The mechanical loading traversers—the first of their kind in the world — used to facilitate cargon loading of the New Zealand Railways-controlled inter-island air freight service were designed by railway mechanical engineers. Recently, too, they designed, in conjunction with the suppliers of the electronic equipment used, an electronic Rail-Air weighbridge which shows the weight of each cargon and whether the load is correctly distributed over the cargon to maintain aircraft trim. The development and improvement of workshop techniques applied in the nine New Zealand Railways Workshops is yet another aspect of the railway mechanical engineer's versatility.
As with the civil engineering branch, this branch offers wide scope for engineers with initiative and drive.
Railway Electrical Engineers are employed in both the civil and mechanical engineering branches.
In the former branch the electrical engineer is mainly engaged in signal and communications work. The great extension in recent years of electric colour-light signalling, interlocking, and Centralised Traffic Control has made the electrical engineer's role of increasing importance.
Apart from the national Post Office telegraph service, the Railways Department owns, operated and maintains the largest telecommunication network in New Zealand. For engineers whose interests lie in the realm of electricity and electronics and its application to communications, this branch offers first-class career prospects.
In the mechanical engineering branch, the electrical engineer deals with railway traction and power. His responsibilities include electric and diesel-electric locomotives, the bulk supply of power to electrified sections of railway and to the larger station yards in electric traction areas, and all the electrical work associated with the four main workshops.
The electrical engineer working on diesel-electric locomotives prepares specifications for new locomotives, checks and tests them when they arrive and solves any problems that may arise when they are first put into service.
The steadily increasing use of diesel-electric locomotives, which has already resulted in more than 50 per cent of all the goods traffic in the North Island being handled by diesel traction, continues to widen the scope offering to electrical engineers in search of a rewarding career.
At the end of each school year the Railways Department appoints a number of young men to its staff as cadets (either civil, electrical, or mechanical) and at its own expense sends them to a University for four years to enable them to obtain appropriate degrees. In return for the Department's investment in his education, each person selected is required to enter into a bond to serve the Department for at least five years subsequent to graduation.
The minimum educational requirement for appointees is Higher School Certificate, but naturally those with higher qualifications have a better chance of selection. For further information about rates of pay and automatic annual increases, and other details, any of the railway officers listed below will gladly advise.
Chief Civil Engineer, N.Z. Railways, Wellington; District Engineer, N.Z. Railways, Wellington; Chief Mechanical Engineer, N.Z. Railways, Wellington; District Mechanical Engineer, N.Z. Railways, Wellington. New Zealand Railways offer you an Engineering Career with a Future.
Opportunity for graduates in the field of accountancy cover a wide range, from specialised consultancy to financial journalism. In between lie the fields of public accountancy and of financial management, and administration in every industry throughout the nation.
The largest single group of accountants are public accountants, comprising 27 per cent of the membership of the Society. The nature of the practice carried out varies with its location and with the interests of the accountant concerned. Larger city firms are engaged primarily in auditing, whilst some smaller firms in country districts have predominantly a practice based on the preparation of tax returns for farms and small business men. In between lie varying combinations of taxation, estate planning and secretarial work.
In New Zealand, membership of the Society represents the key to financial control of businesses of all kinds, and the standard of accounting in commercial concerns compares most favourably with similar undertakings overseas. In smaller concerns, registered accountants (members of the Society not in public practice) act as financial controllers and managers in addition to their normal secretarial and accounting functions. Larger concerns rely heavily on members of the Society for executive appointments at various levels, as can be seen by numerous advertisements in the local press. Many opportunities are available to accountants in the Public Service, in banks, and in local bodies.
The general acceptance of the role of the accountant as financial adviser in recent years has widened the horizons of the profession considerably, as evidenced by the establishment of Chairs of Accountancy at all four universities. This in turn is creating greater opportunity for accountants in the academic field—the number of accountants actively engaged in university teaching is now considerable.
In any expanding nation such as New Zealand, well trained and imaginative accountants are assured of excellent remuneration within a few years—in fact it is doubtful whether any profession provides a quicker route to a worthwhile income. A survey conducted by the University of Melbourne recently proved conclusively that accountants with a degree earned an average up to £200 a year more than accountants without a degree, which is a clear indication of the value of the wider education obtained through a university degree.
The profession is well served by the New Zealand Society of Accountants, which provides much assistance to its members in all sectors of the profession, through first-rate library facilities, publication of "The Accountants' Journal", facilities for liaison with Government departments and in many other ways, In turn, the profession gives much in public service to the nation, through membership of many Government commissions, voluntary financial services to charitable services and other ways.
Entry to the profession may be gained in many ways. Many of the larger firms of public accountants are able at any time fully to utilise the services of graduates, as are many of the larger commercial concerns and Government departments. Vacancies for accountants and financial executives are constantly occurring in smaller firms, and these are normally advertised through the Press.
Introductions to leading firms of public accountants requiring staff at graduate level will gladly be supplied by the Secretary, New Zealand Society of Accountants, Woodward House, 99 The Terrace. Graduates are invited to visit the Society's office personally and to inspect the library and other facilities available.
The Trading Banks
have openings for
University Students And Graduates
Opportunities are available to rise to high executive positions
with
excellent salaries, liberal holidays and generous pensions, along with other worthwhile privileges and amenities
The Trading Banks in New Zealand are:
Australia & New Zealand Bank Limited
Bank Of New South Walks
Bank Of New Zealand
The Commercial Bank Of Australia Limited
The National Bank Of New Zealand Limited
Modern banking is a complex business which affects every aspect of economic life. Besides their traditional role of accepting and granting loans, trading hanks today have to administer exchange controls and credit policies in accordance with the national interest. With the growing maturity of the New Zealand financial system they are now called upon to provide a wide range of specialised services and facilities. The remarkable growth of cheque usage since the war has led to increased use of automation with a corresponding increase in the complexity of every day banking procedures and administration. All of these developments demand greater knowledge and ability of bank staffs, whose daily work is to assist the community with its financial problems.
To maintain the high standard of service for which banking is renowned it is necessary to recruit people who are capable, not only of providing the services required today, but also of anticipating the requirements of tomorrow. With increasing specialisation the need for executive and administrative personnel is as great as the need for experts. The complexity of banking today demands breadth of vision as well as depth of knowledge. For this reason banks are interested in university-trained people, especially graduates in Commerce or in Arts with an Economic bias.
Since the Royal Commission on Monetary, Banking and Credit Systems in 1955 all the trading banks have either opened or expanded their Economic and Research Departments. There Banks publish regular economic reviews, while another issues a report on Produce Prices and Markets. These activities require specially trained and highly qualified staff who have ample scope to exercise their special talents and skills.
A feature of post-war banking has been the expansion of trade introduction and promotion services This has required close collaboration between the International or Overseas Departments of the banks with their overseas offices and agents. Staff engaged in this type of work are required to have a thorough knowledge of Foreign Exchange, Documentary Credits and other matters relating to overseas trade. From time to time requests are received from overseas for a survey of a particular industry. This type of work is especially suitable for graduates in Economics.
All executive officers in the trading banks receive a sound basic training in most aspects of banking before reaching executive status, as it is necessary for them to have a thorough knowledge of banking generally as well as of their particular field.
The trading banks have salary scales which provide regular annual increases up to age 33. For a person joining with academic qualifications the point of entry on the scale would be subject to discussion in each individual case but generally the salary offered would be fully comparable with outside positions.
There are annual, and in some banks bi-annual, salary reviews with the object of granting merit increases. Providing a university graduate showed the ability to apply himself and was acquiring a sound knowledge of practical banking, accepting responsibility as required, he would have every likelihood of obtaining frequent merit salary increases. All banks provide generous fringe benefits but these differ in detail between banks
For students nearing graduation arrangements can be made to attend lectures, and some banks refund fees and pay a bonus on successful completion of studies.
Opportunities for travel arise as all the trading hanks in New Zealand periodically send officers overseas to their Australian and/or London offices for a tour of duty.
All of the trading banks would welcome enquiries from graduates or near graduates interested in making banking their career.
The science graduate's choice of career will be influenced by many considerations. Are you seeking first, material gains, or are you interested in knowledge for its own sake and the satisfaction that is found in grappling with the problems posed by nature? Higher salaries may be obtainable by the right men in private industry, but the D.S.I.R. offers advantages in other ways. For example, publication of the results of research is encouraged by the department: there are opportunities for taking part in long-term projects; senior officers are in certain cases, given freedom to pursue lines of research that particularly interest them, provided they are consistent with the general policy of the department: and there is frequently the stimulus of working in a team of co-workers and the valuable daily contact with fellow scientists in the same or other disciplines. A further advantage is the possibility of travel within New Zealand or overseas—to attend scientific congresses or visit research institutions for discussion of common problems.
What does a scientific career in the D.S.I.R. demand of a new recruit? Academic knowledge is not sufficient of itself: this must be backed by an ability to work industriously and painstakingly when searching for answers to problems. To be worthy of the title of scientist a person must also be creative and capable of original thought. An ability to report one's results clearly and succinctly is also essential.
In the New Zealand D.S.I.R. there are many opportunities for scientific work in a wide range of subjects. In its 22 divisions are employed chemists, physicists, mathematicians, geologists, botanists zoologists, agricultural scientists, and engineers, as well as more specialized workers such as entomologists, bacteriologists, mycologists, paleontologists, plant pathologists, and geneticists
There seems to be a widespread misapprehension that government research is largely of an applied or practical nature. This however, is not so, as it has ben found that the best results are obtained where a considerable proportion of the time and effort is devoted to basic or fundamental research In the New Zealand D.S.I.R.. as in the United Kingdom, the value and importance of fundamental research is recognised. It provides an incentive for the best scientific brains and produces a flow of new ideas and conclusions, some of which are bound to find practical application, some times in the most unexpected ways.
A recent salary increase has brought D.S.I.R. pay into line with that of similarly qualified and experienced men and women on the staffs of the universities.
The Department's laboratories arewell equipped with the mod modern apparatus and instruments, libraries are well stocked, and the material facilities for research are second to none in the world. Think about a scientific career in D.S.I.R. Vacancies arising are advertised in the daily press, but enquiries are welcomed at any time from graduates, especially those with first-class honours.
Today at the Dominion Laboratory of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, which is the largest chemical laboratory in the country, a professional staff of over sixty includes seven women chemists. The following research projects in which they are engaged provide ample opportunities for both fundamental and applied research: analysis of natural and industrial gases: testing the purity of food supplies; the use of chromatographic methods for the identification of food colours and other additives; study of chemical methods of determining genetic history of pine trees: and the use of geochemistry to elucidate the geothermal activity of the Rotorua-Taupo area.
Women scientists are also employed in the Fats Research Laboratory and the Soil Bureau.
Miss
Botanists are also employed in the Plant Physiology Section of the Grasslands Division, in the Plant Diseases Division, in the Vegetable Research Section of the Crop Research Division, and also in the N.Z. Oceanographic Institute.
Women are equally well represented in the physics and mathematics fields. They are found in the Geophysics Division, the Dominion Physical Laboratory and the Applied Mathematics Laboratory.
Women have never been well represented in Geology but an present there are two on the staff of the Geological Survey; one of them has been awarded a Travelling Scholarship to Cambridge University, The only woman zoologist in the Department is studying the physiology of the rabbit in the Animal Ecology Division.