UNIVERSITY POST
Mr A. Alpers To Go To Canada Mr Antony Alpers, of Christchurch, will leave New Zealand on Monday to take up a university post in Canada. He has been appointed assistant professor of English literature at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. Mr Alpers, who is 46, was born and educated in Christchurch and is the author of a biography of Katherine Mansfield, a well-known book on dolphins, and of “Maori Myths and Tribal Legends.” Four years ago Mr Alpers was invited to Canada by the University of British Columbia under a visiting-lecturer scheme of the Canada Council. He lectured in addition at five other universities, of which Queen’s was one. This year he was invited to return and join the department of English at Queen’s. At that time he was editor of a monthly magazine, “Local Government.”
On his way to Canada Mr Alpers will spend a few days at the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in Honolulu, on research for a forthcoming book of Polynesian mythology. His wife and small daughter will follow him to Kingston in a few weeks.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31143, 20 August 1966, Page 16
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