HOLDING OF MORE CONGRESSES

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27048, 25 May 1953, Page 3

HOLDING OF MORE CONGRESSES

NEW ZEALAND BODY FORMED A New Zealand section of the Australasian Association of Psychology aqd Philosophy was formed on Saturday, when a business meeting of the philosophical congress at present being held m Christchurch discussed the setting up of machinery for the holdinof similar congresses. The meeting was attended by two delegates from each of the university centres. The first president of the New Zealand section is Professor William Anderson, of Auckland. Professor Anderson was appointed to the chair of Philosophy at Auckland University College in 1921, after a. period of lecturing at Glasgow University. Author of articles on education as well as philosophy, he has always been intensely interested in the broader aspects of education, and his interest in university affairs has never been confined to the concerns of his own department.

Professor Anderson has twice been president of the Australasian association —in 1930, when the association’s annual congress was held in Wellington (this is the only other philosophical congress that has been held m this country), and in 1938. Delegates to the congress Offered their congratulations to Professor Anderson. They also welcomed Mr J C. Begg, of Dunedin, the only other delegate to the present congress, who also attended the 1930 gathering in Wellington. The secretary of the New Zealand section is Professor G. E. Hughes, of Wellington, who will organist next years congress in Wellington. The president-elect of the section is Professor A N Prior, of Canterbury University College.