APPOINTMENT IN N.S.W.

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26512, 29 August 1951, Page 10

APPOINTMENT IN N.S.W.

CANTERBURY COLLEGE LECTURER

Mr B. J. Dalton, junior lecturer in history at Canterbury University College, has been appointed lecturer in history at New England University College, Armidale, New South Wales, about 300 miles inland from Sydney. New England University College at present functions under the general supervision of Sydney University, but it is expected soon to be granted status of its own. It was founded about 1938 through the gift of land and buildings by a local resident and has since attracted widespread interest as the nearest approach to a fully-residential university in Australia or New Zealand. This nas permitted experimental development. So,far the college has faculties of arts and science. Mr Dalton, who was born in Invercargill, enlisted directly from the Southland Boys’ High School into the Royal New Zealand Air Force in 1943 and Mad service as a pilot in England and the Middle East with the rank of warrant officer. Returning to New Zealand in 1946, he was one of the early rehabilitation bursars to enter Canterbury University College. He had two years as a full-time student at the university and then completed his bachelor of arts degree in 1948, while a student of the Christchurch Teachers’ Training College. Mr Dalton was capped master of arts this year. Mr Dalton is married and has two children.