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Co. 38. para 13
amay thing as
१
Newbolt's
minute, I only wish to add to two:
(a) With regard to the use of advertisement
in the press I would refer to my
,
Memoranda to the Conference
As
ل
Jasar
on "Recruitment".
Chime
Press advertisement is a valuable means of
press
securing candidates for certain classes of
appointment. For others it has been found to
be a pure waste of time and money. Our
ŵe
exhausted attempts to advertise these vacancies
and those of Malaya have proved that advertise-
ment is worse than useless so far as they are
concerned. We have found this to be the case
with most Educational appointments, except
where a post is a particularly good and well
paid one, or where it is of such a specialised
nature that we are only likely to find a man
if we attract the attention of one who is
already holding a similar appointment and would
therefore not normally be in touch with any
agencies such as University Appointments Boards. I might add that at least one Headmaster of a
told me that he has
big Public School has had exactly the same
experience as we have regarding the value of
Press advertisement in securing staff.
(b) I would call particular attention to Paras.
2 and 5 in Captain Newbolt's minute. I fully
endorse what he says as to both, and if I remem-
ber right, the points he makes in 5 were strongly
endorsed as regard's all appointments in Malaya by Mr. Marriott and Dr. Winstedet.
during the
discussion which Mr. Ellis and I had with them
over the failure of recruitment for the Cadet
Service