OXFORD DECREE AWARDED

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28552, 3 April 1958, Page 7

OXFORD DECREE AWARDED

Christchurch Man’s Success Mr Robin W. M. Johnson, master of agriculture, has been awarded the degree of bachelor of literature at Oxford University. His parents, Mr J. Johnson and Mrs Johnson, have received this information. Mr Johnson was awarded his degree for a thesis entitled “The relative influence on output of land, labour and capital in dairying in England." It is a study in costs which he made while he was at Brasenose College and the Agriculture Economics Research Institute at Oxford in 1954-55. For some months Mr Johnson has been in Africa working for the London School of Economics under the Colonial Office on a project of research into the “economics of African native agriculture south of the Sahara and north of the Union.” He has been making a survey of both subsistence and cash crops, and the influences affecting them. In this work he has been in Nigeria, Belgian Congo, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, and Tanganyika. He will complete his survey in Uganda, Kenya, and British Somaliland. After completing the project. Mr Johnson hopes to return to New Zealand with his wife, Mrs Ruth Johnson, next February.