(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)
A complaint that the Palestine Government is ignoring the existence of a technical organization in Palestine and is advertising high appointments in the Palestine Public Works Department only in the London papers is made in the current issue of the Bulletin of the Association of Engineers and Architects here.
“In June 1924,” the Bulletin states, “the Association addressed a complaint to the Colonial Office in London and the Government made a promise to the Association that Palestinian engineers and architects would be given a chance to compote.
“When the Government’s advertisements appeared again this June in the London papers, the Association made a complaint to the Government and was received in an interview by the High Commissioner. Now it is seen that the advertisements are still being inserted in the London Press only. It follows then,” the Bulletin of the Association declares, “that the Public Works Department is held in monopoly for English engineers and architects, to the exclusion of Palestine taxpayers and engineers. Another disability is that the Government does not care to promote from its own Department, but immediately advises outside engineers of vacancies, which does not show confidence in its own officials.”
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