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P-Ng Admin. Will

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TIME was when the offer of a permanent position in New Guinea was regarded as the next best thing to winning a lottery.

Thousands of applications used to be received for cadet patrol-officer vacancies.

Things are different now—and the Administration is prepared to pay good money to train the kind of youngster it wants.

Applications have just closed for 67 cadetships—c over i n g District Services, education, agriculture, forestry and medicine. Applicants must be between 18 and 24, British citizens and have passed the matriculation standard examination —with the exception of medical cadetship where the applicants must have completed the 3rd year of a medical course (the upper age limit does not apply here;.

While they are training at Uni versities, Teachers’ Training Col leges, or the School of Pacific Ad ministration in Sydney, cadets are paid from £444 to £920 per annum, according to age.

Truly, as the Yanks say, youth never got it so easy!

Exhibits for a future Papua and New Guinea museum will be col lected from Government depart ment and residents, states the Pacific Science Association in its June information bulletin. A special committee has been appointed by the Administration to investigate

the setting up of a museum, gallery and public library, to pare an Ordinance to govern cultural centre and recomr plans for its establishment maintenance. Mr. C. F. Julius, ( ernment Anthropologist, is to as Honorary Curator of exhibi