What is this article?

[squirrelinatree]

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/28632/page/5743/data.pdf

Is it showing employment appointments?

(I am interested in Arthur George Lowe) 

Thank you

[trystan]

I'm no expert on this (far from it).

Hopefully somebody can give a better answer than this.

It looks to me as if it's listing the people who were given employment and whether their job positions (or contracts) were awarded after competition or not. In other words whether more than one person was approached for the same contract or not.

(I think nowadays it would be called competitive tendering)

I might have got the wrong end of the stick, but that's how I read it at first glance.


Trystan

[andrewalston]

These are Civil Service appointments, under various occupations.

Arthur is joining the Post Office as a learner - a trainee. His base will be Kidderminster.

He has already gone through selection, which may have included an exam depending on the grade.

The Civil Service was always seen as a Good Job. After a probationary period you became "established". The term has entered the language - "The Establishment".

Once you were in, you would end up with a proper pension when you retired.

[squirrelinatree]

These are Civil Service appointments, under various occupations.

Arthur is joining the Post Office as a learner - a trainee. His base will be Kidderminster.

He has already gone through selection, which may have included an exam depending on the grade.

The Civil Service was always seen as a Good Job.

Once you were in, you would end up with a proper pension when you retired.

Perfect.  Thank you - that completely adds up with what I know about him from around that time and I have found today that he was a civil servant in 1939.