10 New Guinea Cadets.
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Over 2,000 Applications.
In the Commonwealh Parliament on March 9, Mr. R. F. H. Green. M.P., sought information about the six cadets it was proposed to appoint to the New Guinea service, and for which appointments con siderably over 2000 applications were re ceived.
The Minister (Major Marr) said that the Public Service Board, with the co operation of Public Service inspectors in the different States of the Common wealth, by personal examination, reduced the number, first to 79, and subsequently to 26. The examination was a very strict one, involving questions concerning health, mentality, capacity to lead men, and educational qualifications. When the final elimination takes place, it is the intention of the Government to ap point ten cadets, instead of six, to the service.