The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-06-18
CIVIL SERVICE POSITIONS
EXAMINATIONS WILL BE HELD
JULY 5.
Many Places in the Hawaiian Service
Open to Citizens-Can Also Enter
Government Printing Office.

President Rodenberg and Chief Ex-
aminer Server of the Civil Service
Commission have decided to hold the
civil service examinations for the va
rious positions on July 5th at the High
School builuing In case the eXamin-
ations should not be concluded on that
date they will pe extended tor one day.
The following have been appointed as
the board of examiners: Professor W..
ID. Alexander, Professor A. - ingalls,
and u. Il. Bond the chief of the money
order department of the post office.
These examinations are conducted
similarly to competitive examination
for West Point or Annapolis. The
marking of the examination papers are
done by the boards in the east All that
the local examining board has to do is
to keep a general supervision over the
examinations and send the papers to
Washington to be passed upon. Great
care is taken that Ie identity of those
taking the examinations shall not be
known to the people at Washington.
The results of examinations are gem
orally known within 60 days. Some
times however the work of the depart
ment piles up SO heavily that six and
seven months elapses before the mark
! ings can be announced.
The examination next month will not
be the only one to be held here for there
.
of this year. The examiners have not
decided how the subjects will be divid-
ed but the number of examinations
which will be held next month, will of
course be determined by the number of
! applicants. In case there is no appli-
cation for any particular subject the
examination will not be held.
While the majority of the examina-
tions to be held are for positions in the
! United States service in this Territory,
| positions are also open in the Govern
ment printing office at Washington, the
| Indian service and in the Philippines.
| Appointments to the government print
ing office are apportioned to the various
states and territories No less than ten
positions in this department are open
| to Hawaii and only one of them is filed
| The Indian service relates to the In
dams in America and as Hawaii is in
cluded in the western district quite a
number of appointments can be made
! from here.
Mr.. Rodenberg and NJ. Server left to-
day for Hilo where they will select a
| board at that place and probably a
second at Kahului whose duties it will
! be to furnish information to those
| thinking of taking the examinations.
! The examinations will all be held in
Honolulu however. Mr.. Bond at the
money order department of the post
office will furnish information here.
| The examinations to be held are: Aid,
coast and geodetic survey; book type
| writing; Chinese inspector; clerk, gen.
| eral service elevator conducted; fish
culturist immigration inspector: meat
| Inspector weather observer; stenogra-
| pher typewriter superintendent of
construction; topOgrapher including
assistant topographer and copyist
| draughtsman; translator of modern
European languages first, second and
| third grade examinations for the Gus
| tom house; examiner of general mer-
| chandise for the custom house, compo-
sitor bookbinder, electrotyper, press
man and stereotyper for the Govern
ment printing office, Washington, d. e
! teachers, matron, physician, industrial
! teacher, teacher of industries, etc, for
! Indian service also railway mail SER
vice clerk, on steamers or other mail
! transportation lines in the Islands
! None but American citizens will be
! permitted to take the examinations
however and the applications must be
| properly certified to this effect by all
the applicants. Persons discharged
from the navy or army service as the
result of wounds or disease contracted
during service are given a slight pre-
ference over others taking the eXa-
! limitations, in the fact that the former
sailors or soldiers are required to make
! only 90 percent instead of 70 per cent
as are ordinary applicants.